It pains me to decline your invitation, but the attendant circumstances leave no other option.

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Mr. Bolt isn't the first athlete to decline an invitation to compete in Britain.

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Each user in the group is prompted in turn to accept or decline the invitation, and each must respond before the next user is invited.

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Manning, seeing what was happening, thought for a moment that the Giants should decline the invitation to score, run another play to wind down the clock, and then kick a field goal.

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He told Ms Ellman that he had instructed regular coastguards to decline the committee's invitation to give oral evidence.

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