Before this crucial announcement, Nehru urged Jinnah and the Muslim League to join the protest but the latter declined.

In 1914, he politely declined an invitation to join a new organization of Jewish Esperantists, the TEHA.

The Taliban declined to join such a political process.

He initially declined an offer by Kambei to join the group, though he later changes his mind.

Several more states subsequently joined the Federation and the remaining states that declined to join, mainly in Hadhramaut, formed the Protectorate of South Arabia.

Maciunas invited Ono to join the Fluxus group, but she declined because she wanted to remain an independent artist.

Jealous of its newly acquired powers, the Council declined to join the new Federation of the West Indies in 1958, a move that would later be crucial in the development of the offshore finance industry.

Beginning in 1986, " London Greenpeace ", a small environmental campaigning group ( not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace International organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it being too " centralised and mainstream for their tastes "), distributed a pamphlet entitled What ’ s wrong with McDonald ’ s: Everything they don ’ t want you to know.

( No Names ) Club ( Kilburn ), the original Crystal Palace, Blackheath, Kensington School, Perceval House ( Blackheath ), Surbiton and Blackheath Proprietary School ; Charterhouse sent their captain, B. F. Hartshorne, but declined the offer to join.

During the war, the Ligue Nationale pour la Defense de la Musique Française ( National League for the Defense of French Music ) was formed but Ravel, despite his strong antipathy for the German aggression, declined to join stating:

Within a few days of being graciously declined by DeSarde, Cooney received a letter from Mike Dann of CBS, who eagerly wanted to join as an executive producer.

Indeed, Foss, OUP, and a number of composers at first declined to join or support the Performing Right Society, fearing that its fees would discourage performance in the new media.

For a time, Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), the unsavory Rodrigo Borja, tolerated fra Girolamo ’ s strictures against the Church, but he was moved to anger when Florence declined to join his new Holy League against the French invader and blamed it on Savonarola ’ s pernicious influence.

He was asked to join Le Conseil de l ' Union Catholique des Scientifiques Francais ; however, he declined.

He then became a civil servant in the Ministry of Civil Aviation ( he was disappointed not to be posted to the Treasury, but declined an offer to join the Foreign Office, fearing that foreign postings might prevent him from entering politics ).

Bo and Braun again insisted the Red Army move back to western Hunan to join other Communist troops in the area, but their prestige had considerably declined by that point, and their suggestion was rejected.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

He declined their offer at first because he was too busy with work ; however, after agreeing to perform with Fukui and Sekito in a live performance as a keyboardist, he decided to join them in making a band.

Many in the Chinese intellectual community believed that the United States had done little to convince the imperialist powers ( especially Britain, France, and Japan ) to adhere to the Fourteen Points, and observed that the United States itself had declined to join the League of Nations ; as a result they turned away from the Western liberal democratic model.

The survey's results, however, showed that the number of cadets who felt pressured to join in religious activities had declined from previous years.

The city declined to join the City of Greater New York, and plans were dropped to extend the new subway to Getty Square.

He was offered to join some of the ex Menudos in 1998 for a comeback tour named El Reencuentro, but he declined.

However, four justices ( Breyer, Souter, Ginsburg, and Stevens ) specifically disputed this in their dissenting opinions, and the remaining two Justices ( Kennedy and O ' Connor ) declined to join Rehnquist's concurrence on the matter.

Both Godflesh guitarist Justin Broadrick and Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker were reportedly offered to join FNM after Martin's departure, but declined to join.

Chamberlain declined Gladstone's offer of the office of First Lord of the Admiralty.

He declined to serve in Gladstone's third government, formed after Gladstone came out in favour of Irish Home Rule ( unlike Joseph Chamberlain, who accepted the Local Government Board but then resigned ), and after voting against the First Home Rule Bill became the leader of the Liberal Unionists.

Lord Selborne and Sir Henry James, however, successively declined Gladstone's offer of the Woolsack, and in 1886 Herschell suddenly found himself lord chancellor.

The eminent Victorian social researcher and philanthropist Charles Booth was the uncle of the first Baronet ; to Gladstone's dismay, he declined offers of elevation to the peerage.

In France he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV, and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works.

The Thatcher Conservative government declined to introduce amending legislation to make good the defect in the ' two year rule '.

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

Developed in the 1960s, tourism declined greatly during the later 1970s and the 1980s under the military government.

The Earl was offered government of the port of Harwich, but he thought it was unworthy and declined the post ; Leicester was glad to be rid of him.

Overall foreign assistance levels have declined since FY 1995, the year elected government was restored to power under a UN mandate, when the international community provided over $ 600 million in aid.

Italian was also introduced to Somalia through colonialism and was the sole official language of administration and education during the colonial period but declined after government, educational and economic infrastructure was destroyed in the Somali Civil War.

Davis declined the appointment arguing that the United States Constitution gives the power of appointing militia officers to the states, and not to the Federal government of the United States.

French, once common in government and commerce, has declined in usage, while knowledge of English-the language of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN )-has increased in recent years.

In the late 1980s, as fiscal austerity took hold in the United States and the perceived threat of Communism declined with the waning of the Cold War, the U. S. became disenchanted with Doe's government and began cutting off critical foreign aid to Liberia.

On September 9, 2007 the Swiss government acknowledged the " racist thinking " of Agassiz but declined to rename the Agassizhorn summit.

In the last quarter of the Twentieth Century the belief that government ( ruling in accordance with the interests of the people ) ought to directly involve itself in the day to day workings of an economy declined in popularity amongst the center left, especially social-democrats who became influenced by ' third way ' ideology.

In 1999 the government eradicated more than 150 km² of coca ; this figure declined to 65 km² in 2000, due largely to political instability.

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

The Irish government refused to attend royal functions as a result ; for example, Patrick Hillery declined on Government advice to attend the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, to which he had been invited by Queen Elizabeth, just as Seán T. O ' Kelly had declined on government advice to attend the 1953 Coronation Garden Party at the British Embassy in Dublin.

In rural areas, industrial and commercial activity has declined rapidly in recent years, leaving rural economies dependent on the government for support and subsistence.

This trend was apparent in government statistics for the 1986-87 period: the proportion of people fifty years old or older living in farming communities grew from 28. 7 % in 1986 to 30. 6 % in 1987, while the number of people in their twenties living in farming communities declined from 11. 3 % to 10. 8 %.

Although the government sponsorship of shrines declined, Japanese nationalism remained closely linked to the legends of foundation and emperors, as developed by the kokugaku scholars.

When Peru's military government allowed elections for the first time in a dozen years in 1980, the Shining Path was one of the few leftist political groups that declined to take part.

The Liberal Party was one of the two dominant parties ( along with the Conservatives ) from its founding until the 1920s, when it rapidly declined and was supplanted on the left by the Labour Party, which was founded in 1900 and formed its first government in 1924.

* The government declined to print her name on the ballot.

The Conservative Leader Lord Derby became Prime Minister in 1858, but Gladstone – who like the other Peelites was still nominally a Conservative – declined a position in his government, opting not to sacrifice his free trade principles.