In spite of the tempting inducements held out, he declined, and also refused the post of inspector of the Swedish universities offered him by Queen Christina.

The inspector general's office subsequently determined that Kerry's awards " were properly approved " and declined to take further action in the matter ; the office also responded to Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act request with documentation of its review.

In many cases, you must file a complete set of plans with the local building inspector.

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

The inspector nodded, doubting this.

The inspector knew as he left that this was wishful thinking.

Johnston managed to convince a few volunteers to stay and fight as he himself served as the inspector general of volunteers and fought at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista.

* 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.

Society at Nauplia was divided into 3 classes: nobles, citizens and plebeians ; and it had been the ancient usage that the nobles alone should hold the much-coveted local offices, such as the judge of the inferior court and inspector of weights and measures.

Shortly thereafter he began work as a fire prevention engineer ( i. e., an inspector ) for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, the son of Joanne Louise ( née Pickens ), a homemaker, and Charles Newton Campbell, an amateur actor and traveling billboard inspector.

This was opposed by residents and a local police inspector.

His travel with Giles Hubert, an inspector for the Farm Security Administration, gave him access to certain situations and he photographed many aspects of rural life.

Howard Knox ( surgeon ), Antonio Frabasilis ( interpreter ), Peter Mikolainis ( interpreter ), Maud Mosher ( matron ), Fiorello H. La Guardia ( interpreter ), and Philip Cowen ( immigrant inspector ).

Harlley, the police inspector general, successfully launched a coup d ' état against the Nkrumah regime.

His father, Giuseppe, was a horn player and inspector of slaughterhouses.

In 1866, Melville's wife and her relatives used their influence to obtain a position for him as customs inspector for the City of New York ( a humble but adequately paying appointment ), and he held the post for 19 years.

UNSCOM chief weapons inspector Richard Butler withdrew his team from Iraq in November 1998 because of Iraq's lack of cooperation.

Many modern IDEs also have a class browser, an object inspector, and a class hierarchy diagram, for use with object-oriented software development.

* It was described at length in the Zhufan Zhi ( 諸蕃志, " Records of Foreign Peoples ") by Zhao Rugua ( 1170 – 1228 ), a Chinese customs inspector for the port city of Quanzhou during the Song Dynasty.

No maximum charge is applied at their destination as the inspector will apply an ' exit token ' to their card.

A Scotland Yard inspector ( Graham Chapman ) retrieves the joke, but despite the playing of sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood, also dies laughing.

On 23 May 1977, the leftist guerrillas in Buenos Aires killed two policemen and a retired inspector as he entered his home.

During a visit by the Jesuits in March 1581, Nobunaga's interest was piqued by a slave in the service of a Jesuit inspector of missions, and it was requested that he be left in Nobunaga's service.

" He notes also that the idea for the character was " apparently inspired by Dostoyevsky's dogged police inspector, Porfiry Petrovich, in the novel Crime and Punishment.

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

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

Democrat Stanley H. Dent, Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, declined to introduce the bill.

He telephoned L. M. Birkhead and asked him and his wife to come to Europe as his guests, but Birkhead declined on the grounds that one of them must be in the United States when Elmer Gantry was published.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.

Three agreed, but four declined and were suspended.

the new owner at Attakapas declined to enter into any philanthropic arrangement.

When Dr. Wallace Buttrick, wise in his judgment of people, declined to have the Science Building named for him, he wrote Miss Tapley ( April 7, 1923 ) `` If you had asked me, I think I would have suggested that you name the building for Miss Upton.

The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.

He declined to name the three.

While he declined to suggest, how, he said that sooner or later we must get rid of Castro, `` for unless we do we're liable to face similar situations in this hemisphere.

Of 1,253 issues traded, 695 advanced and 354 declined.

Kennedy, through Secretary-designate of State Dean Rusk, declined.

For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose.

This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.

After a decade of double-digit growth, Armenia's economy declined by 14. 4 percent in 2009.

The England Cricket Board declined and the series was played over five Tests.

As herds of domestic reindeer have declined, herds of wild caribou have increased.

Ambrose was elected president and Palladius, being called upon to defend his opinions, declined.

As a spa city, Aachen could use the title Bad Aachen, but as the town then would not appear in first place on alphabetically ordered lists, it declined to do so.

They also urged him to recognize the Japanese genocide against the Ainu people, but Putin declined.