turn down


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Villa from could assistant manager, will up a similar boss Neil revealed assistant I have with He has had an opportunity he couldn't turn down and we fully appreciated that, so he goes with everyone's best wishes.
I am ambitious and at the end of the day the chance of a swift step up to the Premiership is too good to turn down."
The Pain Now or Pain Later "No": A kinder way to turn down a request.
If you're a Geordie the lure of Newcastle is very hard to turn down.
Chapman said her department also received a letter from the diocese of Kajiado saying, "It is with a lot of pain that we turn down this offer in solidarity with the entire Anglican Church of Kenya to cut ties with those that recognize ordination and consecration of the same-sex people."
The policy gave councillors a reason to turn down controversial applications in villages, such as extra housing.
SEAN CONNERY isn't the only star to turn down blockbusters.
When local transplant surgeons turn down an offer of a cadaveric liver for subjective reasons, odds are high that the liver will fail to function well if transplanted into a patient in another region.
Mantl finds that town councils were more than willing to turn down applications for marriage, particularly if they came from day laborers, journeymen artisans, and impoverished master craftsmen.
"I never turn down a request for help for ACA," said Joe.
"Or maybe we can turn down the amount of daf-16 activity in people and mimic what we see in the worm." Ruvkun places the chances of humans having a gene that is functionally equivalent to daf-16 at "about 90 percent."