For example, Dürer offered his last portrait of Maximilian to his daughter, Margaret of Austria, but eventually traded the picture for some white cloth after Margaret disliked the portrait and declined to accept it.

State of origin games also declined in importance, especially after an increasing number of withdrawals by AFL players.

It is probable that the power of Aegina had steadily declined during the twenty years after Salamis, and that it had declined absolutely, as well as relatively, to that of Athens.

The town seems to have declined in importance after the middle of the 4th century BC.

Milk alkali syndrome declined in men after effective treatments were developed for peptic ulcer disease.

The high content of zinc in coinage and brass objects declined after the first century AD and it has been suggested that this reflects zinc loss during recycling and thus an interruption in the production of new brass.

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

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.

Immediately after the election the two groups reunited, though Lloyd George declined to play much of a formal role in his old party.

By the mid-19th century, Bayonne had declined somewhat with the centralisation of power to Paris and to the new département capital, non-Basque Pau, after the 1789 French Revolution, and with Wellington's bombardment.

Salmon populations declined dramatically after the establishment of canneries in 1867.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian population declined, while the German speaking population was forced or compelled to leave after World War II and similar fate was suffered by the Italian population.

However, Amnesty International declined to publicize this material ; the Secretary-General of the organization, Pierre Sane, said at the time in an internal communication that " what they do with the bodies after human rights violations are committed is not part of our mandate or concern ".

Charlotte became pregnant soon after the marriage but her health declined rapidly and according to Gaskell, she was attacked by " sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness.

Interest in the Cottingley Fairies gradually declined after 1921.

Atkins continued performing in the 1990s, but his health declined after being diagnosed again with cancer in 1996.

Also, in the mid-1980s, psychologist Margaret Singer stopped being accepted as an expert witness after the APA declined to endorse the DIMPAC report.

She was later released and after returning to San Francisco spoke out against deprograming but declined to press legal charges against her parents.

52 % of all land was owned by large landowners before the law was passed ; this declined to 16 % after the law's passage.

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

During his career as a director, he retained an early ambition to teach science, and after his career declined in the 1950s he made some educational TV films related to science subjects.

They found that the increase of scores of general intelligence stopped after the mid-1990s and declined in numerical reasoning sub-tests.

After experiencing GDP growth averaging nearly six percent a year in the late 1990s, economic growth declined considerably after 2001 as a result of a decline in the tourism industry following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and damages caused by several hurricanes.

In the 1970s GDP growth rates gradually declined from a peak of 6. 5 % in 1970 until contracting 7. 5 % in 1975 and 1976.

In the early 1970s Jones had a number of hit singles, including " She's a Lady ", " Till ", and " The Young New Mexican Puppeteer ", but in the mid 1970s his popularity declined although he did have a big hit in 1976 with " Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow " which went to No. 1 on the US country chart and No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The strike was broken, and sugar production declined steeply from 1976 to 1977.

In 1976, Spassky was obliged to return to the Interzonal stage, and finished in a tie for tenth place in Manila, well short of qualifying for the Candidates matches, but was nominated to play after Fischer declined his place.

Having previously declined a knighthood, Britten accepted a life peerage – the first composer to have been so honoured – on 2 July 1976 as Baron Britten, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk.

Between 1976 and 1990 the paid fare had declined approximately thirty percent in inflation-adjusted terms.

It was opened in 1976 and operated until 1998, when sales and customer volume declined sharply after the opening of the Brandon Town Center in nearby Brandon.

After his graduation in 1976, Stern declined an offer to work evenings at WRNW, a progressive rock station in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York.

After a high population of 2, 400 in 1976, the town declined slightly in the following decade.

Election statistics show that, while the LDP had been able to secure a majority in the twelve House of Representatives elections from May 1958 to February 1990, with only three exceptions ( December 1976, October 1979, and December 1983 ), its share of the popular vote had declined from a high of 57. 8 percent in May 1958 to a low of 41. 8 percent in December 1976, when voters expressed their disgust with the party's involvement in the Lockheed scandal.

Later, the city was offered the 1976 Winter Olympics after selected host Denver declined the games due to funding issues.

Formula 1 finally declined to race there after 1976, with Niki Lauda's near-fatal crash sealing this decision.

While manufacturing and farming steadily declined, state-and local-government employment quadrupled from 4 million workers in 1950 to 12 million in 1976 and 16. 6 million in 2009.

( Although Gesell declined to name the " family problems " prompting the release, Colson wrote in his 1976 memoir that his son Chris, angry over his father's imprisonment and looking to replace his broken car, had bought $ 150 worth of marijuana in hopes of selling it at a profit, and had been arrested in South Carolina, where he was in college.

In 1976 Moore was term limited from seeking a third term and declined to challenge Robert C. Byrd for a seat in the United States Senate.

However, sales declined shortly thereafter and production of the Optigan and its discs ceased in 1976.

Bosch was given safe haven within the US in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush, who in 1976 as head of the CIA had declined an offer by Costa Rica to extradite Bosch.

In 1976, Mattel's CEO Ray Wagner declined a request to produce a toyline of action figures based on the characters from the George Lucas film Star Wars.

Restricted from seeking another term as Auditor General of Pennsylvania, Casey declined to seek the office of State Treasurer in 1976.

Stevenson was encouraged to run for President in 1976 by Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, declined and was one of the finalists for Vice-President at the Democratic Convention that year.

In the years after the Soweto Uprising of 1976 black consciousness declined was marginalized as a political force in South Africa, as the ANC demonstrated that it could both opportunistically put a guerilla army in the field against apartheid as well as lead a new wave of liberal accommodationist and capitalist collaborationist mass organisations, such as the United Democratic Front.

Although Mike and Bernie Winters's popularity declined, The Two Ronnies ' success grew greatly while Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sporadically produced acclaimed work, in particular their controversial recordings as Derek and Clive from 1976 to 1978.

According to one estimate, the worldwide membership had declined from 6 million to 1. 2 million by 1976, and in the U. S. the 50, 000 claimed initiates had dwindled to 15, 000 regular contributors.