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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

Our children continue to be healthier ... because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline.

National Center

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Arnold Toynbee

As the price of gas climbs, people's values decline.

Jeff Lenard

Today was the end of the quarter and that helped the overall decline.

Warren Meyers

At present, no decline in housing construction is evident in the data.

Michael Bazdarich

We've actually tracked a percentage decline in that category going back to 1996.

Candace Corlett

There was an almost an 80% decline one year from 640,000 vehicles to 200,000, and now it's grown back. Our share has grown a lot.

Rick Wagoner

It's not like it was unexpected. It was in decline.

John Bachman

Everywhere I know of, people complain about the decline in manners.

Deborah Durham

We don't know if the decline is going to be a gradual decline or a sharp decline.

Gregg Laskoski

If history is any indication, there is little the Bush administration can do to reverse this decline.

John Mueller

Obviously the area is making up for that decline.

Michael Wald

That has considered the decline in cigarette consumption and production.

Anggito Abimanyu

I really was thinking it was on the decline, steadily on the decline. From one day they're $2.39 another they're $2.43 and tomorrow, who knows what it will be.

Debbie White

I think we are looking for the trade gap to stabilize, not to decline.

Alan Levenson

This is not good. The decline in enrollment is something we have to grapple with.

Scott Patterson

That is pretty much the case all over [the country], and the Richmond area did have a decline.

Bill Mezger

We sort of mirror the state's decline.

Brandon Martin

I was concerned that you were searching for reasons to decline the petition.

Laurel Cox

Golf began to decline nationally.

John Lawton

A decline in stocks is giving a boost to bonds.

Koji Mori

That seems to be the trend most of the way around the globe, apart from Asia where there is a lot of BitTorrent. BitTorrent traffic levels are in decline.

Andrew Parker

A decline in stocks will probably encourage investors to buy bonds.

Xinyi Lu

He was beginning to see a decline in the respect for public schools and that bothered him.

Muriel Cooper

These 25 percent revenues are and will continue to decline.

Michael Francis

There's been a decline in the double standard. That's why you're seeing more of these cases.

David Finkelhor

It is a genuine shocker... I don't think anyone anticipated a decline of this magnitude.

Wayne Ayers

The trend in the last couple of years has been a decline in unemployment.

Shelley Allen

It's just unacceptable. Our property values will decline.

Janice Moore

That was based on a $6 decline in market returns but with a $3 gain on the currency.

Grant Cuff

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

You have this every couple years. You have a 10 or 11 percent decline. We've had it. It will probably go a little bit lower but this is not the beginning of the end.

Harvey Eisen

We're not happy with the 10 percent decline, but we are making progress.

John Todd

Dancehall, in particular, has been affected tremendously - by about a 30 to 35 per cent decline. Apart from the burning of CDs, illegal downloading affects us too.

Paul Shoucair

I will tell you right off the bat, I believe the (unemployment) decline is a little exaggerated.

Michele Hiester

We had expected cereal to actually decline based on AC Nielsen data.

David Driscoll

We are seeing a decline and it's real.

Prabhat Jha

We could see that he wasn't at his best. We could see it would be a further decline for him. We knew this was the inevitable end.

Hollie Colahan

It's been a steady decline over the past 28 years that I've been with the agency.

Ron Anglin

We expect a decline in consumer confidence as several factors come to bear on the consumer.

Chris Mccarty

The Grokster case did not result in a rapid decline in P2P usage.

Andrew Parker

One of the most important things right now in environmental studies is the decline of amphibians.

Catesby Jones

I'm expecting a decline in acres of rice statewide. It's a question of how much.

Chuck Wilson

We want to catch the child at the beginning of the decline.

Sharon Reid

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

Neil Diamond

The decline has been progressive . . . as the work force changes.

Pat Jenkins

There's actually a year over year decline in crude prices.

Marilyn Schaja

If you want me to comment on accelerating share decline, I guess I would have to say we don't see it.

Paul Laviolette

No. We're going to decline to comment.

Mike Taylor

Without it, we decline, we wither, and somebody else takes our place.

Tracy Koon

It's not the Japanese who are causing the market share decline. It's Americans buying the Japanese vehicles.

Bruce Belzowski

We are addressing it and we are seeing a decline.

Frank Gribbon

It was less of a decline that we expected, so Iraq was really in line of how we modeled it.

Jeff Tillery

Given that's a new model, that's a big decline.

Rebecca Lindland

It's clear that decline couldn't possibly be the new system.

Stephanie Goodman

That is a big decline.

Evan M. Magrill