Tom had to turn down the offer.

He gathered the courage to decline the offer.

He had the courage to decline the offer.

Unfortunately, I must decline the offer.

It was stupid of you to have turned down the offer.

You should've rejected such an unfair proposal.

The predictable initial response is to dismiss the possibility out of hand.

It was silly of him to refuse her offer.

They will either reject this trend, or succumb to it.

Tom doesn't know whether to accept or to refuse Mary's offer.

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Elections in Greece where the recession is turning into a depression may give 40 50 of the popular vote to parties that favor immediate default and exit from the eurozone.

Irish voters may reject the fiscal compact in a referendum.

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At first I thought I liked the plan, but on second thought I decided to oppose it.

The government s initial intention was to deflect radical demands for an extreme version of Islamic governance.

Mathematically speaking, however, there seems to be no reason for us to reject the negative energy solutions.

For Morsi, the dilemma was that the Constitutional Court could strike down the law, rendering the effort meaningless.

However, it is questioned over the cost and inconvenience of having two seats for the parliament.

The United Nations and the European Union should be ready to reject conclusively the result of the referendum and strengthen sanctions against the regime.

And, given how many ascendant tyrants have systematically disarmed the population they seek to control, it is difficult to dismiss this argument entirely.

The bill has passed Paraguay s congress and now awaits a signature by the president, though under Paraguayan law he still has the opportunity to veto the bill.

The problem is that lobbyists in Washington would reject this modest solution if the Doha Round were the end game.

At the ministers meeting there was also decided to reject the claim filed by the Chamber of Deputies, without entering into the discussion of the project, also in charge of the minister Sánchez Cordero.

In October 2012 an administrative tribunal overturned the local Council s unanimous decision to reject a Maccas s proposal for a new fast food outlet.

We strongly support the Burmese opposition s campaign calling on the country s citizens to reject the constitution, which does not promote human rights, but only confirms the military s political role.

I hope the president will listen to us, and we appeal to him to reject this bill and return it to the MPs, he said.

The British government s first reflex was to reject any suggestion that the British rebate is open to discussion it was justified in 1984, and it is justified today.

And he schemed to make Obama the negative one by regularly sending him bills that he would be forced to veto.

This authority was reinforced by requiring unanimity among member states to overrule the Commission a provision that has strengthened the smaller states against the larger ones.

The objection that they would take too long to serve a countercyclical purpose can be rejected on the grounds that the recession is also likely to last a long time.

We had to reject first a convention on the exploitation of mineral resources that had already been negotiated and signed in Wellington in 1988, thus risking reopening very uncertain negotiations.

Satan only wishes to create among you enmity and hatred through wine and gambling, and to divert you from the remembrance of God and prayer.

But those who are helpless, men, women and children, who can neither contrive a plan nor do they know the way,

Using football imagery under the 'Red Card Israeli Racism' campaign, supporters of the BDS movement urged UEFA to reject the bid on account of Israeli restrictions on Palestinian football.

If the jobs of ruling and moneymaking are shared across generations, or among brothers or cousins or in laws, criticism is more easily deflected.

For God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever lies between them.

On July 1, 2011, against a motion of the Democratic Left Alliance Party to dismiss the proposal after the first reading, the Polish Parliament (the Sejm) voted in favour of the draft and passed it to further discussion in the parliamentary committee.

He also said that he is concerned that it could give way to a slippery slope effect for surveillance practices in the coming years, noting that it is very difficult to reject an urgent request from the intelligence service in the current climate of general paranoia.

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As he looks ahead to the verdict of history, he seems to realize that hard power alone will not consolidate his reputation, but he remains hostage to incidents and accidents that could drive even his best laid plans off course.