The defendants are likely, he said, to invoke their constitutional right to decline to testify.
But dimwitted as is this prerequisite, you were right to decline your friend's request.
It is a man's right to decline to play for his country if called upon.
In 1989, the case went before the Supreme Court, which ruled that patients have a right to decline medical treatment.
Mr. Yaacoub said that as a member of Hezbollah, he had the right to decline to take part in terrorist operations.
"I claim the right to decline," a Pennsylvanian explained, for "confining enlistments to a term of three years excludes a worthy class".
Many people do not know that they have a right to decline, or would be reluctant to exercise that right, he said.
Test subjects had a right to decline an experiment — assuming that they knew they were part of one — but they almost never did.
We expect the same behaviour from complainants and reserve the right to decline to consider complaints that are abusive or gratuitously offensive.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS--Exercised the 2006 option on RHP Elmer Dessens and announced Dessens exercised his right to decline the option.
Professor Tribe said the statement might well amount to a waiver of Mr. Ebbers's right to decline to answer related questions.
