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Example sentences for: declined

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Justice Department declined to renew those grants under new policies that direct the money to start-up programs instead of funding existing programs, Hamon said.
Twenty-eight patients declined to use hypnosis for various reasons including that it was against their religion, or because they felt their symptoms were unlikely to respond to hypnosis.
The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story.
In order to achieve representation by small furniture stripping companies, two were invited to participate, but declined.
(3) Patients were also withdrawn as therapy failures if (a) the CD4 cell number declined by more than 45% of the baseline CD4 count, (b) participants developed an opportunistic infection, even if retaining required CD4 count levels, or (c) a viral load of greater than 500,000 copies/ml occurred once, with or without development of acute retroviral syndrome as defined by fever, skin lesions, and pharyngitis.