He declined his mother's Scandinavian dining set, however, because its reddish-orange color clashed with the stripped, pale wood floors.

Hiromitsu Ochiai reached 2,000 hits in 1995, but declined membership because Kaneda and other members had repeatedly criticized him during his career.

IT'S a good thing Lance Rubin declined the beer with his dinner, because dessert involved power tools.

And the dollar often declines because inflation chips away at its purchasing power, prompting foreign investors to sell their dollars for stronger currencies.

They said the "perhaps most likely" explanation was that the antibodies decline because the virus itself declines as it kills off more of its target cells.

Barry declined to race and because three months passed without him accepting the challenge Arnst claimed the title by forfeit.

The podiatrist category is declining in the Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn directories, for example, but not because people have fewer foot problems.

(lines 61-62) Matthew is quick to decline because he knows that the narrator cannot be a substitute for those who are passed.

Between 1840 and early 1900 the population, due to industrial expansion of Innsbruck, declined because people preferred to migrate to the city that offered better job opportunities.

In the Netherlands, too, interest in rinderpest inoculation declined in the 1780s because the disease itself decreased in intensity.