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Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
As soon as people decline my services, I'll put my briefcase under my arm, and I'll be off.
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.
I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline.
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.