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Example sentences for: declining

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Consultants profit from advising employers on how to prevent office rampages and training managers to spot unhinged workers, but office homicides are declining, and all the fretting may just exacerbate fear.
After first declining Hazmi's request for a loan, the administrator agreed to permit him to use the administrator's bank account to receive the $5,000 wire transfer.
The analysis indicates that 6,300 firms submitting 42,500 reports annually will be added by the rule to the 360 facilities in the existing manufacturing sector submitting 3,600 reports for a total compliance cost of $226 million for the first year, declining to $143 million in subsequent years.
It's crazy, but it just might work: It's a testament to our cynical times that a politician can make news by declining to sling mud.
Although Holder chided government lawyers for formulating a "sloppy," "overly aggressive" response to the AAPS lawsuit and took Magaziner to task for using ill-defined legalistic language supplied him by White House counsel Vincent Foster, he concluded his investigation by declining to prosecute Magaziner for criminal contempt.