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The Italian foreign ministry has declined to comment on the video.

She adds that they continued to email, but “finally, in so many words, he declined to be interviewed.”

Fossella declined to run again, but in the years since he has mused aloud about challenging Grimm.

But the current pontiff, for reasons one might fully understand, declined to meet the would-be papal assassin.

Abu Faour declined repeated requests to comment for this article.

But, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.

He drew himself up more stiffly than before, as he declined the offer.

They gardened, they drove out, they rowed and sailed upon the lake, but they declined all acquaintances.

That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

Mr. Pontellier declined to interfere, to interpose either his influence or his authority.