Sentence examples for should have declined from inspiring English sources

Anand probably should have declined the offer and played 19... f6 or even 19... f5.

Some lawyers say that, at the very least, the firm should have declined to conduct the review for Enron.

Nor did the pace of new construction and foreclosures, and nor did average rents, which should have declined if more apartments were vacant.

He said that the Long Beach police should have declined to handle Mrs. Sofield's complaints and called in Nassau County officers instead.

Both authors should have declined to accept large up-front payments while still in office, as such payments can too easily be seen as bids for favorable treatment.

Once several of them joined the now 27-nation bloc, the tariff regime between Russia and the region actually increased for certain products — which suggests that trade should have declined as a result.

Some conservative pundit suggested that the president should've declined the prize, but it is not gracious to reject a compliment, one should accept it with becoming modesty, as Mr. Obama did, that's what your mother brought you up to do.

Given that it declined with increasing delay in forced trials presumably because the monkey was, in fact, forgetting the sample then it should also have declined, at the same rate, in chosen trials because, by hypothesis, the monkey was using choice trials only to avoid taking the test at longer delays, and this could not be done in forced trials.

Situations in which both a focal species and its interactor have declined should be more worrisome than those in which the interactor is still abundant.

No doubt, Army recruiting standards have declined and should be upgraded.

Jerry Schurder, head of business rates at Gerald Eve said the plan works well when regions are in growth, but in the last few years some poorer regions have declined, meaning should that continue the tax bill the councils receive will shrink.