Sentence examples for thus declining from inspiring English sources

It said it would leave that up to other courts, in other states, and the nation as a whole, thus declining to offer a more sweeping support of the basic right of gay Americans to enjoy the benefits and bear the responsibilities that civil society bestows on married couples.

Furthermore, Foxconn will build factories closer to employees' homes, thus declining the headcount in Shenzhen by about 170,000 workers over five years as production moves inland.

Interestingly, HCCM shows rising cycling stability with increased rates while CC@rGO exhibits slight and continuous capacity fading at almost all rates thus declining advantage with rising rates.

This strategy is, however, hindered by relatively weak activity of some cellular promoters, which may lead to low levels of gene expression, thus declining therapeutic efficacy.

Boyd was "semi-engaged" to photographer Eric Swayne at the time, thus declining a date proposal from Harrison.

In mature trees, ring width declines with age; thus, declining growth may be impossible to detect based on changes in ring width alone.

I would thus decline to answer questions I would find too personal.

Shipping through it thus declined into the early years of the 21st century, after which domestic use of it began to increase again.

After obtaining first class honours in 1961, he embarked on a doctoral thesis on the place of the army in Spanish politics between 1830 and 1854, which was abandoned after the university modern history board objected that he had substantially departed from the original proposed scope of 1830 to 1868 and thus declined to examine it.

Acceptance of reforms such as the German Energiewende will thus decline.

Advertising revenue thus declined 29%, or $137 million, compared to the fourth quarter of 2009, of which $80.2 million relates to shutdowns of operations in Europe and de-emphasis of "low margin search engine campaign management and lead generation affiliate products" and the absence of revenue from Bebo and ICQ which AOL sold earlier in 2010.