He declined my proposal.

According to the Financial Times, he laughingly declined.

He declined to do so, preferring instead to obtain a judgement that he could appeal.

When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined

The result was a complete defeat for his army, after which he declined to leave his tent he was captured after a brave resistance and taken to Cairo, where he died seven days later.

The Court then afforded the parties the opportunity to present new evidence, which they declined.

United States imports increased rapidly in 1998, after which they declined to 32.7 Mt. in 2004.

Overall, productivity per worker, which is the major component of growth from within , has consistently declined.

3 declined to answer.

Africa is the only continent in which food production has declined significantly over the past two decades.

Sami's health has sharply declined.

The market declined by 97 .

Radcliffe wrote in his report that he knew that neither side would be happy with his award he declined his fee for the work.

The victim declined to press charges.

Vlissingen declined during the 18th century.

On the contrary, ODA has declined.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

In 2001 the number of unemployed declined by 800 persons in rural areas, which lowered the unemployment rate to 13.4 .

The use of torture had declined sharply.

For two years, sea levels have declined.

Ultimately, he declined the position by the next year the situation in England had changed, and Charles II was proclaimed King.

When asked to join LTTE, he declined but offered to assist in other ways, such as building bunkers and distributing food.

The embassy failed to meet the Doge of Venice, as he declined an interview on the ground that he was meeting an ambassador from the Ottoman Empire.

The Fed declined to regulate these dubious practices.

The number of social assistance recipients has declined.

In the case of those requests referred to the Minister, he declined to consider an exercise of his discretion under section 417.

In more than 40 past episodes in which GDP fell and private investment declined by 10 , recovery took an average of five years.

Meanwhile, the US share of global output has declined.

Civilisation declined to attend the UN s anti Israel festival.

And it declined very fast a classic boom and bust fishery, which suggests that a stock has been depleted or there's low reproductive rates.

According to the economist Nora Lustig, between 2000 and 2010, income inequality declined in all 17 Latin American countries for which comparable data exist.

Instead, the index declined three times more steeply than others.

and transition economies, while FDI into developed countries declined further.

The number of civilian jobs declined from 44,062 to 43,415.

The figure for males declined slightly from 1.0 to 0.91 .

These declined owing to the crisis of the mid 1990s.

Eisenhower declined, partly because he did not particularly like or trust Nixon, but mostly because he thought it was important to hand over a more nearly balanced budget to his successor.

The budget deficit has been brought down sharply, and unemployment has declined. Yet Krugman now says that everything has turned out just as he predicted.

Looking at the full range of countries with which China trades implies that the overall value of the renminbi probably declined in the past 12 months.

Moreover, the pre crisis trend of rising income and wealth inequality is continuing (in marked contrast to the post Great Depression period, in which inequality declined).

The Director and members of the staff receive invitations to conferences and seminars which have to be declined because of the limited travel budget of UNIDIR.

In fact, in the Olympics, India s record has declined over time.

The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

By the early 17th century moreover, Venetian power had declined considerably.

If Allah had found in them any good . He would indeed have made them listen ( As it is ) , if He had made them listen , they would but have turned back and declined ( Faith ) .