of Edinburgh, and Ph. D. of Göttingen, and honorary student of Christ Church, Oxford ; and in 1894 he declined the appointment of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, lest its duties should interfere with the accomplishment of his history.

Lee has also been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, but has always declined to make a speech.

She has accepted honorary degrees but has declined to make speeches.

He had received a call for a temporary lectureship in Hamburg in 1965 ( which he declined for health reasons ) and received and accepted an honorary doctorate from Hamburg University and the Bundesverdienstkreuz ( German Order of Merit ) via the German representative in Chicago.

He declined the honorary degree which was offered him.

In 1869, he declined the professorship of modern history at Cambridge, but in the same year accepted from Gladstone the deanery of Ely, and until his death devoted himself to the best interests of the cathedral, also receiving many honorary academical distinctions.

Ludowyk in his introduction to The Village in the Jungle .. Woolf accepted an honorary doctorate from the then new University of Sussex in 1964 and in 1965 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, but declined the CH in the Queen's Birthday honours list in 1966.

While he declined to participate in the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, Harvard awarded honorary degrees to Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein in 1935.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

He declined the award of honorary Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985.

In 1950 Mises declined an offer of honorary membership from the Communist-dominated East German Academy of Science.

President Hopkins was the recipient of at least 15 honorary degrees, and, while president of Dartmouth, declined an invitation to serve as president of the University of Chicago in order, according to a 1964 New York Times obituary, " to continue development of his ideas of what an undergraduate liberal arts education should encompass.

He was made an honorary fellow of Balliol and was awarded honorary doctorates from Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Durham, and was offered ( but declined ) the King Edward VII chair at Cambridge.

Boring declined to run for president and was made “ honorary president ”( p. 308 ) of the Division as an acknowledgment of his work.

He was offered an honorary degree from RMC which he declined, as he had opposed the degree program, fearing the long tenure of civilian instructors would unduly influence the curriculum.

Glendon was selected by the University of Notre Dame as the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Laetare Medal but declined the award due to the university's controversial decision to host Barack Obama as its commencement speaker and bestow upon him an honorary degree.

Grand Empress Dowager Lü then promoted Wang to the honorary position of the emperor's teacher ( 太傅, taifu ); Wang declined and claimed illness.

In 1890 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the University of Aberdeen gave him its honorary LL. D., and in 1899 he was appointed Gifford lecturer by that university, but declined on grounds of health.

Sherwin-White declined to accept the actual doctorate, preferring to remain known as " Mr ", but he revised the thesis for publication as The Roman Citizenship ( 1939 ).

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

Disco music was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity declined in the United States in the late 1970s.

French lute music declined during the second part of the 16th century ; however, various changes to the instrument ( the increase of diapason strings, new tunings, etc.

Waits declined, but the commercial ultimately featured music very similar to that song.

Jazz music and tap dance declined, while rock and roll and pop music and the new jazz dance emerged.

As Britpop declined in popularity, Blurs next three albums, Blur, 13 and Think Tank contained influenced from Indie Rock, Electronic and Hip Hop music.

The ceremonial opera Libuše was received with thunderous applause for the composer ; by this time ( 1881 ) the disputes around his music had declined, and the public was ready to honour him as the founder of Czech music.

During his years in the United States, Walter worked with many famous American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic ( where he was musical adviser from 1947 to 1949, but declined an offer to be music director ), and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Maw wrote the libretto and composed the music ( Maw had at first approached Styron about writing the libretto, but he declined ).

At the turn of the 21st century, the Tejano influence has declined in part due to decreased promotion, the rise in regional Mexican and other Latin music, the breakup or retirement of established performers, and the emergence of few new performers.

The 12 ″ single is still considered a standard format for dance music, though its popularity has declined in recent years.

With the advent of legal methods of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other physical media have declined, and the term " B-side " is now less commonly used.

He had already declined a previous offer to join in 1994 and instead became a member of the Dixie Dregs, known for complex, " Southern fusion " instrumental music.

In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the post of the orchestra's next music director.

As enka's traditional themes were no longer appreciated among younger Japanese and Western-style J-pop music became more popular, enka sales declined.

From the 1950s on, however, public interest in her music declined, and in 1957 she and Lawlers returned to Memphis.

Since the 1950s, however, music has declined in importance in politics, replaced by televised campaigning with little or no music.

The same day, they went to a local music store and given his choice of instruments, Pete chose the clarinet ( after first wanting the drums, which his father declined per the doctor's orders ).

* After being injured in a traffic accident in 1966, and his subsequent disappearance from the popular music scene, Bob Dylan declined to go to the original Woodstock Festival of 1969, even though he lived in the area at the time and the festival had been put in his backyard to try and get him to come out and play.

During this, Decca Records offered them a recording contract ( helped by their Aunt Rosaleen and her friend in the music industry ), although Susan declined the offer to get married and emigrated to America with her husband.

Despite Giovanni Battista Mancini's claim that Hasse was the padre della musica, and despite the composer's massive popularity as a figure at the very forefront of 18th-century serious Italian opera, after his death Hasse's reputation vastly declined and his music lay mostly unperformed ( with the exception of some of his sacred works, which were revived now and again in Germany ).

The latter tried to arbitrate through a delegation from Providence, which offer was declined by the invaders.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

He declined offers from German bishops and finally retired to the monastery of Cluny, where he died at a high age, leaving behind a solid reputation for piety and intelligence.

These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum.

A 2001 study found that Atlanta ’ s heavy tree cover declined from 48 % in 1974 to 38 % in 1996.

The total population of Outback Australia declined from 700, 000 in 1996 to 690, 000 in 2006.

* Israel and Judah: The two " chronicles " of Israel and Judah provided the chronological framework, but few details apart from the succession of monarchs and the account of how the Temple of Solomon was progressively stripped as true religion declined.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

After the Reform Act, which disenfranchised many of the rotten boroughs ( boroughs that had declined in importance, had only a small population, and had only a handful of eligible voters ), parliamentary constituencies began to diverge from the ancient boroughs.

In 1490 the estates of Croatia declined to recognize Vladislaus II until he had taken oath to respect their liberties, and insisted upon his erasing from the diploma certain phrases which seemed to reduce Croatia to the rank of a mere province.

" With total world emissions from fossil fuels growing rapidly, the proportion of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by the oceans since 2000 may have declined by as much as 10 %, indicating that over time the ocean will become " a less efficient sink of manmade carbon.

" After the U. S. enforced the embargo, Nicaragua was isolated from the West, forcing the Sandinistas to rely more on Eastern bloc military and economic assistance even though Moscow declined to offer the quantity of aid it provided to close communist allies.

Tax revenues declined as republic and local governments withheld tax revenues from the central government under the growing spirit of regional autonomy.

Although production was usually about 57, 000 – 59, 000 tons annually in the 1980s, the acreage harvested declined from in the early 1980s to in 1999, indicating a greater yield per acre.

Jean le Rond d ' Alembert withdrew from the enterprise and other powerful colleagues, including Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, declined to contribute further to a book which had acquired a bad reputation.

Tin working continued throughout Roman occupation although it appears that output declined because of new supplies brought in from the deposits discovered in Iberia ( Spain and Portugal ).

Some adjectives borrowed from other languages are, or can be, declined for gender, at least in writing: blond ( male ) and blonde ( female ) or a bonie lad as compared to a bonnie lass.

With the rise of Islam in the 7th century the power of Aksum declined and the Kingdom became isolated, the Dahlak archipelago, northern and western Eritrea, came under increasing control of Islamic powers based in Yemen and Beja lands in Sudan. The Beja were often in alliance with the Umayyads of Arabia who themselves established footholds along stretches of the Eritrean coastline and the Dahlak archipelago while the Funj of Sudan exacted tribute from the adjacent western lowlands of Eritrea.

Founded as an explicitly Christian democratic group, it declined at first but reversed its fortunes in the 1980s and 1990s when, as a result of the gradual enlargement of the EPP ( party ), it started to pick up members from other centre-right but non-Christian democratic parties.

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

Attendances at games also declined dramatically, whilst some clubs had to move from their normal grounds due to them being used for military purposes.

The oyster fishing industry declined after 1902 when sewage polluted the oysters, which resulted in some people dying after eating oysters from Emsworth.

However, the pharaoh's real-life influence and prestige could differ from that depicted in official writings and depictions, and beginning in the late New Kingdom his religious importance declined drastically.

The growth in the 1980s was based on debt, and when the defaults began rolling in, GDP declined by 13 % and unemployment increased from a virtual full employment to one fifth of the workforce.

Total audience declined from 1. 2 billion in 1960 to 0. 2 billion in 1980.