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But in turning down Bloomberg's dollars, Sanders isn't just turning down cash that can buy valuable TV, radio and Facebook ads.
Whedon shared a particularly humble reason for turning down movie.
You don't need to apologize for turning down a request.
He skewered Obama in 2008 for turning down public financing.
That meant turning down offers from Sikorsky and AgustaWestland SIFI.
This means I'm turning down jobs instead of taking them.
And what's the etiquette for turning down a handshake anyway?
Are you turning down your screen brightness to barely visible levels?
That's the justification he's giving himself after turning down a show.
" As Edgar describes the treatment: "It's just turning down the volume.
A warm, energetic man, he didn't enjoy turning down a conversation.
The long-term GMMA averages have compressed and are turning down.
Turning down controversial military and government contracts won't doom your business.
In other words, Desmond lost out on $81.5 million in guaranteed earnings by turning down the original offer from the Nationals and lost out on $7.8 million this year alone by turning down the qualifying offer.
"It could be as simple as turning down the volume," he said.
Jackman does not having any regrets about turning down the potential role.
Malaysia is also turning down invitations to participate in North Korean events.
Her office would not offer a reason for turning down the request.
Even so, the suppliers have been turning down orders from new buyers.
We joke that it's a "time out" for turning down a job.
In the meantime, Stone shows no signs of turning down the volume.
I remember being pathologically incapable of turning down work when I freelanced.
We'd be wakened by the car slowing and the radio turning down.
He ended up turning down the offer and joining the Players instead.
Wade, turning down an appeal to reinstate a strict Indiana abortion law.
Stay down to earth and remember you're just turning down an invitation.
Keke Palmer has her reasons for turning down Bachelorette star Mike Johnson.
Veasey, No. 16-393, gave no reasons for turning down the appeal.
Why was she telling me incoherent stories about turning down Courage Street?
Often, prosecutors cited a lack of criminal intent in turning down FDA cases.
So now Craig has been indicted, after reportedly turning down a plea deal.
"I'm turning down fighters because there's so much interest," he says with amusement.
"My priorities have shifted," Carries says, turning down Keane's (Elizabeth Marvel) impassioned appeal.
Shire rebuffed Takeda on Thursday, turning down an offer worth around $61 billion.
Turning down Rodarte "was kind of devastating, but fair enough," Ms. Blanchard said.
Are they turning down raises and paying more money for their health insurance?
The bartender is turning down the lights and handing us our substantial bill.
He bought the building for $1.5 million while turning down opportunities on South Beach.
This involves turning down a Judd Apatow movie over and over, offending him deeply.
I was hugging them, turning down the knob so they could sing, and laughing.
She's not turning down the extra money, but it's definitely not her sole motivator.
As is their custom, the justices gave no reasons for turning down the case.
Shortly after turning down an administration position, Conway started to tweet critically of Trump.
Officials are favoring Fox News and turning down most interview requests from other networks.
Turning down shots has gotten me called a snob, a bitch, and a buzzkill.
Mr. DeSantis, 40, is intent on turning down the temperature in perpetually overheated Florida.
Almost certainly, the company regretted turning down the game, which became Scrabble in 1948.
She came to the company in 1998 after turning down the job three times.
This is an offer even Bernie Sanders will have a hard time turning down.
After turning down her friend's offer to split a cab, she stumbles toward home.
The sound was pretty decent, although I recommend turning down the volume to reduce feedback.
But how long will that last if all of these important commodities are turning down?
It's not clear how much negative news the markets can handle before again turning down.
But she put out a statement explaining why, exactly, she was turning down the prize.
Betty knows Chic is hiding something because he's turning down a lot of Blossom money.
Gibson also revealed why, after turning down the film twice, he finally agreed to direct.
And after turning down multiple engineering offers, I decided to pursue that company full-time.
Caldwell has said that Andersen was charged only after turning down a deferred prosecution agreement.
He said his wife wasn't happy that he was turning down the $350 million offer.
That meant turning down offers from Sikorsky in the United States and AgustaWestland in Italy.
Albert liked it and agreed to do the documentary, despite turning down several directors previously.
Adhering to its custom, the court did not give reasons for turning down the cases.
Red, blue, purple — everyone has great difficulty turning down federal money for an important priority.
She did, however, send Mr. Michael an email to apologize for turning down the invite.
Immigrants reportedly began turning down food stamps after early reports about the rule last year.
"The host has a sense of control," Mr. Rothman said, including turning down potential guests.
So it's never economically rational to reject a split, however lopsided: You're turning down money.
By 2016, Tarjama was turning down work due to capacity workload and limited human resources.
In some scenarios, the uncertainty behind the program has led to lawyers turning down cases.
Landlords are also prohibited from turning down voucher holders based on their source of payment.
Mr. Simpson is one of few potential clients Mr. Sitrick has publicly acknowledged turning down.
I myself am guilty of gently turning down very young women's requests for permanent sterilization.
Meharry, like many medical schools, has had a policy of turning down tobacco company donations.
"Leading indicators are already turning down," said Abi Oladimeji, chief investment officer at Thomas Miller Investment.
The couple pleaded not guilty after turning down a plea deal because it included jail time.
He quickly became Schrutt's best employee, always working past his shift, never turning down a task.
She's also still facing 2 misdemeanors -- trespassing and disorderly intoxication -- after turning down a plea deal.
O'Sullivan said Scotiabank was turning down more mortgage applications than it had done in the past.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite index was off 296.860 percent, turning down after a slightly higher opening.
"I think it's unrealistic to think they're going to start turning down subsidies entirely," Davis added.
These days, Coates finds himself turning down more offers than most journalists get in a lifetime.
So turning down their support probably isn't going to hurt a candidate's bottom line too much.
After turning down previous Fed offers — considering herself a fiscal and not a monetary specialist — Mrs.
Reports emerged late last month that Trump had been turning down intelligence briefings after his election.
Others simply didn't understand why she was curtly turning down things they said were genuine suggestions.
By then, Mr. Baur had already taken the dramatic step of turning down any new cases.
If the economy is turning down, I don't care what our debt-to-GDP ratio is.
We hoped that her reasons for turning down the taping would appear valid, but we were unsure.
Parts of William Julius Wilson's "When Work Disappears" show such men turning down available work, for example.
Apparently, a Bentley was seen turning down a road that leads towards their home in Frogmore Cottage.
Foreign scientists are already turning down jobs because of lack of clarity over their future immigration status.
Remember that 14-year-old entrepreneur who made headlines for turning down a $30 million buyout opportunity?
Some companies are already turning down business for fear of being accused of a conflict of interest.
Turning down the chance for fun memories is hard and occasionally makes me feel like a scrub.
Penney's shares were up 1.8 percent in premarket trading, after initially turning down following the earnings announcement.
People [with social anxiety] want to please other people, so they're not very comfortable turning down drinks.
But diplomatic protocol disallows him from turning down, say, a floor-length cape from a Saudi prince.
We are cautious as we see the second, more volatile trend turning down in the near term.
Rippon recently made headlines for publicly turning down an opportunity to meet with Vice President Mike Pence.
In such cases, asking for cash, or turning down an offer for lack thereof, is always gauche.
She also wrote out copy-and-paste scripts for other entrepreneurs to use when turning down requests.
Today, he is dressed in a Spider Man outfit, a plaintive pout turning down his plump lips.
Dusty Johnson is one of the members of Congress turning down his congressional paycheck during the shutdown.
Turning down the opportunities presented to meet with additional legislators would have been suspicious, Mr. Good said.
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Bond markets are in a lather because the global economy might be turning down.
So if "no" is a raging river rapid, turning down a party invitation is a calmer inlet.
As is their custom, the justices in the majority gave no reasons for turning down the case.
He also hit Clinton for turning down a California debate, calling it "insulting" to the state's residents.
You're broke because you chase big-money long shots while turning down less exciting but real opportunities.
"I had a hard time turning down the role of Jesus Christ," Mr. Legend told The Times.
Wage growth may be turning down a notch, but rents in big cities are still steadily climbing.
One day, the majority of Americans could be turning down burgers and bacon for reasons other than price.
Rihanna reportedly has a powerful reason for turning down the opportunity to perform at next year's Super Bowl.
She also spoke out about her reasons for turning down an offer to perform at the Super Bowl.
The actor also revealed that he regrets turning down Greta Garbo and never sealing the deal with her.
She's staying sober, turning down a drink from a mysterious stranger, Desmond (Davis' real-life husband, Julius Tennon).
It forced me to make a decision: I could start turning down jobs, or I could hire help. 
Turning down your heat, sleeping in cooler temps, and spending time outdoors can help to stoke your metabolism.
He got better and better at turning down new projects that he simply couldn't fit into his schedule.
Apparently, a maid was in the process of turning down said fourth floor room and left it open.
Even as my rate skyrocketed to $650 an hour, I was turning down potential clients left and right.
Not putting in enough to get that match is the same as turning down a raise, Vento said.
In an interview with Business of Fashion, Rihanna said Amazon wasn't a partner she could consider turning down.
Soluble coffee producers say they are turning down orders from foreign buyers due to a lack of beans.
I would imagine you're turning down as many prospective clients as you are taking in new ones, right?
But, of course, there really is something bizarre about a region turning down the opportunity for job creation.
Turning down someone&aposs business card makes the other party think you don&apost want to contact them.
If that means turning down nearly a billion dollars in federal funding every year, then so be it.
The couple pleaded not guilty in April after turning down a plea deal because it included jail time.
"We always knew we had done nothing wrong in turning down the order," he told the Guardian newspaper.
Urie hands her a Grumpy Cat-looking furry baby, which Swift graciously accepts after turning down an engagement ring.
"People can criticize a nominee, but ultimately there are very few examples of people turning down the vice presidency."
Additional tips include turning down your brightness, turning off Wi-Fi, and closing apps when they aren't in use.
"My wife is the best in the world at all that," Craig once said of turning down fan photos.
Being an adult is turning down plans in order to stay home and play with your new kitchen appliance.
"We always knew we hadn't done anything wrong in turning down this order," he told reporters outside the court.
"My agent did a good job saying no, no, no," he said of turning down other rom-com scripts.
On Tuesday, you feel yourself turning down as action planet Mars begins its two-month retrograde through your sign.
People can criticize a nominee, but ultimately there are very few examples of people turning down the vice presidency.
Until then, he thinks tech companies and the private sector as a whole should be turning down Saudi investments.
I have many, many friends that come up all day long, $5 million, $10 million; I'm turning down money.
The smartest way to do that, short of turning down the thermostat, is to keep up with the maintenance.
Turning down the funds has put PHS's clinics—which primarily serve low-income New Yorkers—in a precarious position.
The company also said that under the settlement, it would no longer block drivers for regularly turning down fares.
You joined "The X-Files" as a script supervisor in Season 6, after turning down the job multiple times.
FOREX: The U.S. dollar was hovering around unchanged, turning down 0.12 percent from a slight gain before the data.
Turning down arranged marriages, Kusama utterly lacked a sense of self-doubt as she pursued a career in painting.
But Chief Justice Roberts joined the four-member liberal wing of the court in turning down the administration's request.
"I wouldn't be turning down help," she replied, before pulling up alongside and asking if they'd like a beer.
In fact, in today's corporate operating environment, turning down controversial military and government contracts could be a selling point.
He faulted Trump for turning down the World Health Organization's test and instead insisting the U.S. develop its own.
Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded not guilty in April after turning down a plea deal because it included jail time.
Turning down brand deals and leaning into consumer productsYoola signed the Radzinskaya family about two years ago, Baumel said.
These losses saw the metal and mining sector turning down as copper prices headed south on China demand worries.
" She also said that turning down Ms. Ross had reflected "a philosophy of doing things that's not very flexible.
As is its custom, the Supreme Court gave no reasons for turning down the appeals in National Review v.
Shares of the company whipsawed in aftermarket trading, rising as much as 2250 percent before turning down 21 percent.
Conyers settled a complaint in 2015 by a woman who said she was fired for turning down his advances.
He even struck a blow against nepotism in government, turning down his nephew's request to be named a US attorney.
The couple pled not guilty to the charges against them after turning down a plea deal that included jail time.
But "it is highly unlikely that turning down a devolution deal means you'll avoid needing to implement cuts," he says.
Cahill joined the program in 2009 after turning down the chance to work with Roger Federer after a trial period.
NBC has said it won't be particularly aggressive with pulling content from streaming services and turning down potentially lucrative contracts.
In an interview with Esquire, the 58-year-old actor shared that there was one role he regretted turning down.
It comes with nine different commands and can do everything from turning off the TV to turning down the volume.
Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel looks more and more canny for turning down that $3 billion Facebook offer every day.
While turning down patients for an experimental drug may sound heartless, it may be the more compassionate, if difficult, decision.
Amir Khan fight in Vegas on Saturday ... turning down a personal invitation from the fight's promoter Oscar De La Hoya.
As is the court's usual custom, no explanation was given for turning down the appeal, and no vote was noted.
BONDS: The 10-year U.S. Treasury note US10YT=RR yield see sawed, rising above 2.06%, then turning down to 2.0161%.
For broadcasters, turning down an interview with a candidate is anathema to a news culture trained to pursue maximum access.
But still, we can't imagine turning down a paycheck (or a cup of coffee) from the future Queen of England. 
And turning down the volume of the rock concert-level amplified sound to background music levels won't cost a cent!
Talk to your roommate about tidying up more often or turning down the music before asking them to leave forever.
Turning down what may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to go to the White House: that takes guts.
It's not just me, it's a lot of us from L.A. It's the mentality of, We ain't turning down nothing.
Turning down money from someone with legal issues, that's easy—or at least it's supposed to be, Jeffrey Epstein notwithstanding.
Almost certainly the company regretted turning down the game, which became Scrabble in 1948 after an individual investor got involved.
The couple pled not guilty to the charges against them after turning down a plea deal that included jail time.
He decides he can survive without the cash and its privileges (turning down Harvard yet again), but his brothers can't.
Turning down the $350 million offer was "one of the hardest decisions I ever made as a founder," Bansal said.
Turning down that opportunity freed her up to work on another project that was willing to pay a higher rate.
Experienced scientists know that research funding, like nicotine, can be addictive and many scientists are turning down Juul's research support.
However, he did veer into weirdness when he sought credit for turning down a $2 billion "deal" to build in Dubai.
So you can turn up some knobs while turning down others, and then run the machine to see how it does.
The duo previously pled not guilty to the charges against them, after turning down a plea deal that included jail time.
Brent crude dropped, turning down on oversupply and skepticism that Venezuela's effort to lobby crude producers for output cuts would succeed.
So many VC deals are more about gut feeling than anything else, with investors turning down the vast majority of opportunities.
This arc of industrialisation is supposed to carry poor countries into prosperity before eventually turning down as sophisticated services take over.
Thankfully, Rainer cuts off his co-star before she literally rakes herself over coals just for turning down his inappropriate date.
CNBC's Jim Cramer breaks down why Wall Street is turning down some high-growth stocks in lieu of other value stocks.
One Democratic operative said you can even see the difference by turning down the sound on the candidates' announcement videos. Sen.
You can't fully silence an iPad by just turning down the volume — that will mute music and videos, but not notifications.
For the moment, Coon was turning down job offers, including a part in a miniseries that was being shot in Australia.
YouTube and Instagram star Alisha Marie, who has 8 million YouTube subscribers, said influencers should be turning down more sponsorship deals.
The duo previously pled not guilty to the charges against them, after turning down a plea deal that included jail time.
Turning down the Secret Service's offer of 24-hour protection, the Koks rented a Winnebago and struck out on their own.
It was there, again, when Krieger weighed in this week to say that she, too, would be turning down an invitation.
Wait, it can also figure out exactly what wrong street I'm turning down and steer me back in the right direction?
But sometimes "no" needs to happen, whether in small ways like rejecting a dress or in turning down the role altogether.
The second is of a car turning down a darkly lit street, which veers toward a home perched on a hill.
First, you have to go through the trouble of turning down the invite, which often will expose you to objectionable content.
"He turned down millions to leave, and here was begging for $130 to talk about turning down millions," Mr. Butler said.
Kelly came to NBC News in January after turning down a reported $25 million annual salary to stay at Fox News.
He congratulated himself for turning down a two-billion-dollar deal, which looked like a cartoonish bribe, from an Emirati businessman.
" He tweeted: "The Democrats are turning down services and security for citizens in favor of services and security for non-citizens.
After originally turning down a meeting with George Lucas, Daniels reconsidered after seeing a painting by Ralph McQuarrie of the character.
Washington, DC (CNN Business)Uber is turning down the volume — and looking to the sky — in its latest round of new services.
The more domestically focused mid-caps index hit a record high in early trading, before turning down to close 0.4 percent lower.
Following the rulings, more public defenders have been turning down cases, leading to months-long waits before some suspects get legal representation.
Appointing a separate chairman in 2014, jettisoning Alere's deal-hungry founder, turning down his lowball bid and focusing the business all helped.
"I doubt you'd say they were a 'bad person' for turning down an invite to hang out with a friend," she says.
Sean Kratz stunned prosecutors and victims&apos relatives Wednesday in turning down what his lawyer said was the prosecution&aposs final offer.
Syngenta had been under pressure to offer rewards to shareholders after turning down a big offer from U.S. rival Monsanto in 2015.
And then, after turning down Heather at the bar, he calls Kate and tells her that she was right about the marriage.
"That's like Nicolas Cage turning down a movie role," he added What we're reading: This article on Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Vogue.
They drove at breakneck speed down a four-lane highway before abruptly turning down a side street and disappearing into the darkness.
With felony caseloads already far above the professional standard, the public defender concluded that turning down cases was the only ethical option.
Morin goes a step further by turning down events and opportunities that don't fall in line with her work or family OKRs.
And Trump is so indifferent to policy details that he could make Democrats an offer they'd have a tough time turning down.
In college, Kirkland was the 1968 MVP for Norfolk State, turning down an offer from UCLA to play alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The judge found that she also impersonated her boyfriend in an email turning down the school's offer to study with Mr. Gilad.
In turning down the offer with Oprah's Book Club, Ms. Horan was willing to put her reputation and job on the line.
But I'm taking a cue from Emanuel—I'm putting on a podcast, turning down the sound, and finding joy in the shooting.
Pruitt is also under fire for approving raises for two of his top aides, despite the White House turning down the request.
As is its custom, the court gave no reasons for turning down the appeal in the case, EMW Women's Surgical Center v.
But she's also written the mission timeline on her household calendar for years, turning down social plans for flybys and critical trajectory corrections.
Instead, Spanberger touched on the thing that attracted voters such as Meg Sneed to her: turning down the volume in the civic discourse.
That said, we know that the ritualistic aspect of drinking a warm beverage before bedtime may be helpful when turning down, she says.
So a devastated Abramovitz replied to the fake Gilad, turning down the offer and choosing to stay at McGill to finish his degree.
This starts with good sound isolation, as the Melomania are vastly ahead of Apple's AirPods when it comes to turning down exterior noise.
And I don't regret turning down the invite to Nashville, because line-dancing in cowboy boots isn't my idea of a good time.
For the second time in four years, we have been forced to impose a hiring freeze and, now, have begun turning down cases.
The PTO will no longer have any basis for turning down marks "containing the most vulgar, profane, or obscene words and images imaginable".
After turning down a top job at Universal, snapped up by his partner Ron Meyer, Disney's overture looked like an enticing second chance.
I also think it's worth considering how as a black woman, Beyoncé hasn't always had the luxury of turning down opportunities or paychecks.
Obi-Wan pulls his signature force trickery and convinces the dealer to go home and rethink his life after turning down the offer.
In every one of those cases, even interest rate reductions were not enough to prevent the economy turning down a few months later.
Esposito knew she was ready to make that leap once she found herself turning down opportunities she would have otherwise said yes to.
Even those of us who aren't lactose intolerant aren't turning down more frozen dessert options, and Breyers took notice of this consumer trend.
He also reportedly retaliated against a woman who rebuffed him, who says she was denied access to Franks after turning down his advances.
Last week, the Wrap reported that the President-elect was "very unhappy" that A-list celebrities were turning down invitations for his inauguration.
Some bigger proxies have asked investors to express criticism by turning down Credit Suisse and UBS 2018 compensation reports in non-binding votes.
Grandstanding by turning down a meeting or refusing dialogue might feel good to some, but it is profoundly disrespectful and carries consequences. Engage.
When Cheri Kempf became N.P.F. commissioner in 2007, she found herself turning down prospective team owners in order to keep the league alive.
Turning down an outstretched hand won't reduce the risk of someone catching something they probably weren't going to get in the first place.
But breaking the "just between us" contract will require its own strategy of turning down the offer however and whenever it is made.
I mean, Rory considered turning down an opportunity to be a journalist on Barack Obama's campaign to ride rollercoasters instead during Season 7.
"Turning down that one toxic client freed up my mental space to pursue projects and brands that fueled me with energy," said Chen.
The court also upheld Mr. Azaria's prison sentence of 18 months, turning down a request by military prosecutors to increase the jail term.
After turning down the opportunity to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show, Cardi B has explained that she had "mixed feelings" about it.
Obsessed with the notion of finally being legal, Al-Kontar told me that he is turning down offers of marriage from around the world.
They fired clients who didn't understand that their work was central and valuable to a startup's strategy, even when it meant turning down revenue.
So the team came up with a clause in the offer that any mid-40-year-old would have a hard time turning down.
And the fact that they juxtaposed it with Lawrence turning down an advance from Tasha in the very same episode only made it worse.
We want technology that can tell if Airbnb hosts are illegally turning down minorities or if Facebook's human editors are squashing conservative news headlines.
He took a gamble on the part, turning down a bigger-budget project for the film, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination.
Harvey and his wife Marjorie dream of slowing down in the South of France – though he has never been good at turning down work.
Qualcomm's board of directors issued a statement on Thursday saying that they are turning down Broadcom's $121 billion bid to buy the competing chipmaker.
"My agent did a good job saying no, no, no," he told The Guardian in January 2017 of turning down other rom-com scripts.
Brand, a 16-year veteran, had retired in August and spent the new few months turning down numerous coaching, front office, and broadcasting offers.
This led to her turning down roles that didn't feel right, and only starring in small projects since the last Potter film in 2011.
That shit scares me, and I never know which man is going to haul off and hit me for turning down his drink offer.
Of course I can remember when they were turning down a bid from Coty that they absolutely positively should have taken without a doubt.
But using a pseudonym also meant that some publishers had no qualms about turning down her first manuscript in that series, The Cuckoo's Calling.
After struggling in 22016, destocking finally began to pay off with inventory ratios turning down from April 220 and falling to 22015 by December.
For many years, Lee, a shy woman with an engaging Southern drawl who never married, lived quietly and privately, always turning down interview requests.
"Coach has been after us about turning down open shots and taking advantage of taking the chances the opposition is giving us," Graham said.
There's Princess Carolyn, BoJack's ex/agent/sex buddy whom he disappoints not just romantically but also professionally, turning down every project she brings him.
A lot of turning down of the settings and (power) unit and then one of the cylinders was cutting because of the temperature issue.
I have to panic and sell Apple because Apple must be turning down and it's going to be herd animals all over the place.
We hope you're not tired of the Gwake love-fest, because Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have no intention of turning down the heat.
Into a Dutch oven, she adds oil and chile flakes, which she fries quickly before dropping in diced onions and turning down the heat.
In 2013, a 23-year-old female college graduate from Beijing filed a lawsuit against a tutoring firm for turning down her job application.
Turning down this opportunity isn't going to make a detectable difference to the system, but it may well make a significant difference to you.
After initially turning down the idea, Mr. Smith eventually had a change of heart, the report states, after Mr. Trump's requests in July 2016.
Sofia Solar Cafaggi, 29, of Mexico City, got her undergraduate degree at McGill University in Montreal after turning down M.I.T. because of the cost.
I made some stupid decisions, like turning down a couple of full scholarships to law school to go to the "best" one I could.
We were in the position, for the first time, of turning down a really prestigious venture firm because they didn't have a woman partner.
The question is whether the Supreme Court would then hear an appeal, and so far the court has been consistently turning down such appeals.
Scott Walker and the state's Democratic senator, Tammy Baldwin — whom Walker accused of turning down a meeting with Gorsuch, which a Baldwin aide disputed.
When these receptors start lighting up, the effect is of turning down the granule cells, and, thus, of slowing down the mammal's motor functioning.
At the time, other Republican governors were turning down the federally funded benefit on their residents' behalf, thinking that refusals would undermine the health law.
As an active-duty service member, McMaster would likely have had difficulty turning down a job the commander in chief had asked him to fill.
But some municipalities are turning down the offer, saying the downsides of letting residents rent out rooms on Airbnb are not worth the trade-offs.
It made some major mistakes at the beginning, like turning down the opportunity to buy Google for $1 million in 1997 and again in 2002.
Following many ups and downs, including financial troubles, drama between each girl and turning down a record label, the foursome ultimately become talent show champions.
We're told Celine's skipped other big events in the past, like the Oscars, due to conflicting obligations -- so turning down the inauguration was nothing personal.
Lowe had no trouble finding success on television, anyway — after turning down the role, he starred on Brothers & Sisters, Parks and Recreation and The Grinder.
Emerson ended up graduating from business school without a job, turning down multiple job offers due to the belief that she would be running Pets.com.
Defense Secretary James Mattis has been turning down regular requests by White House aides to appear on "Fox & Friends," the New York Times reported Monday.
Whatever your reasons may be — it could be cost concerns or conflicting schedules — turning down a wedding is a situation that can feel very personal.
Turning down an officer's commission, he quit the Army and became one of the war's fiercest critics, well before the antiwar movement had gathered steam.
In addition, the government is now turning down family-based green card applications at a 30 percent higher clip than during President Obama's final quarter.
Practice by turning down the volume and watching TV (newscasters tend to have expressive lips), or study how your own mouth moves in the mirror.
As is the United States Supreme Court's custom, its brief order gave no reasons for turning down appeals from a county board and a church.
Keuchel, 31, became a free agent in the off-season after seven years with the Houston Astros, turning down the team's $17.9 million qualifying offer.
As the coronavirus crisis deepens all across the United States, the Trump administration is favoring Fox and turning down almost all other networks' interview requests.
A common error is turning down Part B coverage in the belief that this supplemental coverage is primary — and ending up with no primary coverage.
In California last week, activists circulated video that appeared to show an inmate turning down a burrito and saying he was on a hunger strike.
Omri Lavie, co-founder of NSO, told Motherboard "I know the document and I can't comment" when asked about the DEA email turning down NSO.
"Representative government and the election of our representatives are never 'unnecessary,' never a 'waste of taxpayer resources,'" the court wrote in turning down Walker's appeal.
Roston says Bluecrew hasn't seen complaints about how the system surfaces jobs, and he notes that the company doesn't penalize workers for turning down gigs.
So Natalie Portman turning down a visit to Israel in protest is not business as usual, and Israeli politicians are not treating it as such.
A 69-year-old woman ended up turning down a liver transplant after she patiently spent a year waiting for one that would save her life.
One thing is for sure — neither have any plans to return to acting anytime soon, famously turning down the popular Full House Netflix spinoff, Fuller House.
The group proposed turning down thermostats in homes and offices, reducing city speed limits, scrapping older cars, encouraging public transportation and limiting the use of chimneys.
Another theory is that focusing actually dampens the background noise, like turning down the volume on the rest of the instruments to make the violin clearer.
A few prominent figures are flagging their opposition to the visit—peevishly, critics say—by turning down their invitation to attend a state dinner on Monday.
After previously turning down the opportunity to perform at the halftime show, the 30-year-old singer let fans know she wouldn't even be tuning in.
Nipsey Hussle's family is turning down hoards of proposals for a very public birthday bash honoring the slain rapper ... because the wounds are just too fresh.
These are some hard-to-kick vices, after all, and you likely won't see us turning down a slice of New York cheesecake any time soon.
Investors will be looking for further evidence that the economic cycle is turning down when Facebook, Amazon and Google's Alphabet report their earnings in the week.
John Conyers (D-Mich.) initially denied the BuzzFeed report that his office settled with a former worker after he allegedly fired her for turning down sex.
" The new nondiscrimination policy forbids turning down a potential guest because of their "race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status.
"I didn't want to think about it, I didn't think of it as rape because I blamed myself" for not turning down the pills, she said.
Before turning down the job, Mr. Ayers told the president that he would be willing to do it only on an interim basis, through the spring.
In turning down their application, Friendship Village had mailed a copy of its cohabitation policy, which limits shared units to siblings, parents and children, or spouses.
Indian officials, in turning down the offer on Wednesday, said the country had a longstanding policy of relying on domestic resources, which they insist are adequate.
Universities could be turning down our future doctors, engineers, nurses, scientists, and many more, due to their financial hardships that hold them back from attending college.
A judge had ordered Epstein to remain in jail through his trial, turning down his request to return to his Upper East Side mansion under supervision.
The communication between the White House and the Iowa Republican follows a day of Democratic criticism of Grassley for turning down a meeting with the president.
Afterward, her first few correspondences were awkward — a tepid Slack to her boss, a cold text turning down a date — but she found the restraint worthwhile.
Foley noted that Johnson appears to be avoiding scrutiny by turning down broadcast interviews in an attempt to hold on to his lead in the polls.
U.S. stock futures were slightly higher after briefly turning down, underscoring fragile investor sentiment following a rout in October and steep sell-offs in recent sessions.
" In turning down his appeal, however, the court noted that "other employees gave evidence that they were not encouraged to take excessive risks in their trading.
For every CNBC story on Spiegel and Zuck turning down offers and going on to capture billions, there are dozens of founders who should have sold.
But several network producers said privately on Monday that they were uncomfortable turning down the president amid a national event affecting millions like the government shutdown.
"Since turning down an unequal pay rise, I have been subjected to a dismayingly incompetent and undermining grievance process which still has no outcome," she added.
In the end, she went with her gut and stood by her principles, even if it meant turning down what many musicians would consider a career highlight.
Sammartino was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the 2013 class after turning down previous offers to do so, according to ESPN.
And when his wife considered turning down a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity in Washington, D.C., Jason told her the job was too good to refuse.
Despite turning down numerous offers to manage Europe's biggest clubs in the past, it is possible that Le Professeur will be imparting his wisdom elsewhere next year.
Ray's manager, David Weintraub, tells us Ray's focus has been on growing his tech biz over the last year, turning down several TV deals in the process.
Static, rules-based systems leave companies turning down too many good customers and users, but also missing important trends in cybercrime before they strike home, Tan said.
"Turning down Dan—choosing jurisdiction over my own body—felt like choosing exile from the very things in which his approval had granted me legitimacy," she writes.
"There was this decrease in input to the visual cortex, so you can imagine it a bit like turning down the volume on your vision," Niel said.
The Ohio State Fair in Columbus is staging a "sensory-friendly" event on one morning this month, turning down the lights and making for a quieter experience.
When Poland originally agreed a provisional deal with Airbus, it meant turning down offers from Sikorsky in the in the United States and Leonardo-Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland unit.
Miller, who is expecting a child with his wife next month, said he was turning down the job in order to spend more time with his family.
The consultants on the wall, acting on Trump's behalf, have warned County Clare Council that turning down the application would have dire consequences for the local area.
Our sources say Cardi turning down the deal was moot since their first choice, Nicki, eventually came through with the new verse in the nick of time.
Mariano Rajoy, the former prime minister, is clinging to his office as acting prime minister after turning down an offer from the king to form a government.
The women refused to settle the case for years, with legal assistance from the human rights organization Centro Prodh, turning down promises of free homes and scholarships.
The University of Virginia men's basketball team announced Friday it was turning down an invitation to visit the White House following its championship victory earlier this month.
"As a Vestas investor you'd have reason for concern that Runevad would have a hard time turning down an offer from Ericsson," said Sydbank analyst Jacob Pedersen.
Turning down a Fox News town hall is not on the same moral plane as refusing to attend a big-donor event or accept corporate PAC money.
The UK Parliament defeated a measure to hold a second referendum on Wednesday, turning down a chance to hold a people's vote on the future of Brexit.
The justices said they would hear the case, likely later this year, after turning down an earlier request from Democrats to fast-track a ruling by June.
Turning down an invitation is the foundational exercise, a finger push-up to inspire larger changes in your life, to flex your ability to account for yourself.
"I kind of love ghosts," she said, recalling how her great-grandmother, who lived nearby, often complained that spirits were turning down the heat in her house.
Betts will be a free agent at the end of the season and reportedly wants to test the market after turning down extensions with the Red Sox.
"Leave your mother alone," Louis C. K. says, imagining her in heaven turning down a party with angels because she has to look down on her son.
Gonzalo Blumel said turning down the temperature of street protests did not mean reducing the pressure on government to resolve issues of social justice and human rights.
Gonzalo Blumel said turning down the temperature of street protests did not mean reducing the pressure on government to resolve issues of social justice and human rights.
Stormy Daniels is reportedly turning down multiple invitations to attend this year's White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner, but her attorney, Michael Avenatti, will be in attendance.
But Dropbox's move is impressive in part because CEO Drew Houston once took a risk by turning down an offer from the one and only Steve Jobs.
So if doctors aren't looking for osteoporosis, and many patients are turning down treatment, how can we prevent life-altering falls like those suffered by my grandparents?
But Schaffner said this argument doesn't make sense, because infectious disease doctors are basically turning down the opportunity to make more money by denying chronic Lyme disease exists.
The U.S. firm said it was open to engaging in further negotiations with Bayer after turning down its $227.2 billion bid as "incomplete and financially inadequate" this week.
Cramer was flabbergasted when Coppola did a huge disservice to shareholders by turning down a beautiful takeover bid from the largest REIT in the country, Simon Property Group.
"I think this unfortunate deceased individual is a hero … by turning down and risking his own life to avoid crashing into innocent people," he said, according to WISN.
Regional Prefect Fabienne Buccio had said the police presence was needed because "extremists" could try to intimidate migrants into turning down housing offers or buses to reception centers.
Loans have been viewed as "loss leaders" for more lucrative ancillary business, but more banks are now turning down deals that do not pay on a standalone basis.
A federal judge last week ordered Epstein to remain in jail pending trial, turning down the multimillionaire's request to return to his Upper East Side mansion under supervision.
Jay and Bey dropped their new joint album, "Everything is Love," and Jay goes after Drizzy in "BOSS" for turning down his TIDAL offer and choosing Apple Music.
CNN reported Wednesday that Kraft, 77, is turning down the proposed deferred prosecution deal extended Monday to him by the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office in Florida.
"I'm not sure if they can settle with the SEC after turning down the opportunity, but you never know," Ivan Fienseth, an analyst with Tigress Financial Partners said.
"Turning down a client is a privileged thing," explained Sonja, adding that since trans sex workers are often fetishized and devalued, they often can't afford to say no.
For the buzzy enterprise startup Notion, one of the trickiest parts of running its profitable, high-growth business has been politely turning down meetings with would-be investors.
After turning down a lucrative offer to be one of the bodybuilders featured in Mae West's Las Vegas revue, he went to work for the California Highway Department.
Cities across the country are turning down the opportunity to host the 2020 Republican National Convention, where President Trump is expected to be nominated for a second term.
You will wish it can help you with everything, everywhere — including filing an expense report on the go or turning down the volume of a loud co-worker.
In turning down an earlier appeal from Mr. Buck in 2011 based on assertions of prosecutorial misconduct, five justices expressed misgivings about what had happened at his trial.
Mr. Horton left the show when it was at the height of its popularity, turning down a lucrative contract because, he said, he wanted to avoid becoming typecast.
Inspector O is a North Korean police officer who investigates murders, a bank robbery and various other offenses, periodically dealing with foreigners and turning down chances to defect.
I lost a lot of money over the years, turning down good parts because it didn't fit my idea of the kind of entertainment I wanted to do.
And major museums, including the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate in London and the Guggenheim in New York, are turning down donations from the family's prominent charities.
Keane retired from the military in 2003 and has been known as an outside adviser to Trump, reportedly twice turning down an offer to be secretary of Defense.
When a federal appeals court issued a ruling last week turning down the company's effort to quash the subpoena, the judges made public some details about the dispute.
After the BAFTA Awards snubbed her and other actors of color, Harriet star Cynthia Erivo is speaking out about turning down the show's request for her to perform.
Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Priorities USA, the super PAC supporting Clinton, envisaged a scenario in which Ryan would find himself having difficulty turning down the nomination.
At the Evert Academy, where Blackman used to be based, there was not enough room to accommodate all of that, and too often he was turning down requests.
Still, by the mid-1920s, many prominent teams had taken to turning down postseason bids, as a feeling that college football had become too commercial swept the sport.
When we first meet Sidney, she is turning down her boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) for sex, a smart move considering he's just compared their love life to The Exorcist.
That's because with Google Assistant integration, the Shield TV can do everything a Home can, like turning down your smart lights or adjusting the temperature on your connected thermostat.
I had just terminated my relationship with my acting agency, after they expressly chastised me for turning down an audition for an Axe commercial that I thought was demeaning.
It's even got a touch strip on the bottom for muting your mic or turning down your headphones, without having to take your eyes off the action on screen.
Should a line be drawn between turning down the frequency where the snare drum lives and adding on a filter like "flange," which can essentially change the band's genre?
Surrounded by all of this country music history in Bristol, it's tempting to ask whether Williams made the right decision by turning down a meal at the Burger Bar.
After studying at TAFE's Fashion Design Studio, Plunkett and Sales began their fashion venture after turning down internships at Dior (circa John Galliano, so you know it was real).
Tensions already bubbled up ahead of the confirmation last week when some Democrats, including Klobuchar, said that Barr was turning down meeting requests with them ahead of the hearing.
Summer may be turning down, but there's plenty of fall goodness to look forward to: longer hemlines, chic coats, ankle booties, and dynamic prints, amongst many other layerable tricks.
"Police" lets you speak a verbal command that performs a series of actions, including messaging a friend, turning down the phone's brightness and pausing the sounds on your phone.
Considering the extremely graphic nature of the series -- involving sex, drugs and LOTS of other stuff -- we don't blame her for turning down the volume based on her neighbors.
It will now engage more often: instead of turning down power-sucking features only when a phone is stationary, it will soon do it anytime the screen is off.
LePage was talking about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leaders and others who criticized him for turning down their invitation to attend ceremonies honoring Rev.
After all, Ryan has made no secret that chairing the Ways and Means panel is his dream job, and Brady would have a hard time turning down the Speakership.
The most important lesson Tan learned is to hire people who fit well with the company's culture and values, even if that means turning down other talented potential candidates.
He also accused the congresswoman of grandstanding by turning down an offer from the Israeli government later on Friday to file a humanitarian request to enter the country instead.
She appeared on Good Morning Britain as a young teenager in 22009, having hit headlines for turning down a role opposite Richard Gere in Bruce Beresford's movie King David.
"Chinese trade data and industrial production numbers from Europe suggest the global manufacturing cycle is turning down, which is negative for base metals," said Danske Bank analyst Jens Pederson.
Its other new mayors, in Tshwane (Pretoria) and Nelson Mandela Bay (which includes Port Elizabeth), have won plaudits for turning down the luxury cars that come with their jobs.
In 2019, The Atlantic reported that at least 200 eligible families in a Virginia county had stopped accepting WIC and that many were also turning down reduced-price lunches.
On Wednesday night, the Metropolitan Police released a statement attributed to Ms. Skripal, turning down a Russian offer of consular assistance, adding another irritant to worsening relations with Moscow.
Because I'm torn between her saying that Kara, Barry, and company looked like the attractive, multiracial cast of "a CW show" and turning down Bernie Sanders for hot yoga.
But it had already started turning down before the Fed's policy U-turn last week on worries that the U.S.-China trade war was putting downward pressure on growth.
When a job comes through on one, they accept it, making sure they go offline on all the other apps so they don't get penalized for turning down jobs.
Bolt's policy on turning down rides is particularly harsh: Any driver that does not confirm more than 60 per cent of trips falls into a three-step deactivation process.
Paysafe said that after turning down a number of indicative proposals, it had granted the bidders due diligence access on the basis of the 590 pence per share proposal.
With Wednesday's announcement, it appears Ortagus is ready to join the Trump administration after turning down several opportunities to do so in the past, according to a source familiar.
He was the first in his family to go to college, turning down a Harvard scholarship to attend Notre Dame, paying his way by working as a taxi driver.
Over the weekend, the overcast skies helped create a quieter mood on the streets; turning down the hype and noise was supposed to foster more sales and more conversations.
All of this gets somewhat confusing, since Mr. Trump has repeatedly said he doesn't want super PAC support and has made turning down large donations a staple of his candidacy.
The CEOs of America's largest banks are turning down invites to the Trump administration's economic workshop in Bahrain intended to jump-start their Middle East peace plan, CNBC has learned.
Missing a Harvey gig would be like turning down a free bag of chips handed out at a subway station exit, or the last sun lounger left by the pool.
You can set the right mood in your own kitchen by turning down the lights (here's a cheap and easy lamp dimmer you can buy), and turning on some jazz.
She did tell a female employee at Miramax about the harassment; by doing that, and turning down Harvey Weinstein's advances, she said she felt that those actions hurt her career.
I'm curious, in all of the announcements Facebook's been making about the News Feed, none of it relates to Instagram, in terms of turning down the dial on commercial content.
But domestic gas production is turning down, with output nearly 4 percent lower in July 2016 compared with July 2015 ("Falling U.S. gas output meets stronger demand", Reuters, Oct 3).
EW notes that Wahlberg said that he planned on turning down the film, but the fact that director Paul Thomas Anderson was attached to it kept him on the project.
Render says his wife supported the family for two years while he struggled with his rap career after turning down a record deal with a major label and going independent.
Since US President Donald Trump took office however, his administration seems to have eased up on Beijing, turning down a Pentagon request to sail close to artificial islands China controls.
Wilson poked the ball loose on the ensuing kickoff and the Rams ran out the clock, with Todd Gurley converting a third-and-10 but turning down a sure touchdown.
Even if the INCJ does a good job in rationalising the troubled businesses of Toshiba and Sharp, shareholders may lose out if this means turning down higher offers for them.
Domestic gas production has been turning down since March as low prices have cut the number of rigs drilling gas-rich formations to less than 100 across the entire country.
Rick Snyder (R) is turning down a Harvard research fellowship amid public backlash over the university choosing the governor, who was widely criticized for his handling of the Flint, Mich.
Rick Snyder (R) is turning down a Harvard research fellowship amid public backlash over the university choosing the governor, who was widely criticized for his handling of the Flint, Mich.
"I was asking for a public apology to make people aware that they should watch out for things like this," Ndugo said, explaining her reasoning for turning down the voucher.
The woman, Nakesha Williams, died in 2016 at age 46 after turning down many offers of help over the years and despite extraordinary efforts made by outreach workers and friends.
Frankie Edgar says Brian Ortega pissed off the wrong people by turning down a replacement fight at UFC 226 ... and now his chances at another title fight could be ruined.
But compared with the lawmakers in North Carolina, the Maryland Democrats were restrained, turning down maps that would have wiped out the state's other Republican-leaning House district as well.
Wheat futures firmed on short-covering and worries about frosty temperatures in the U.S. Plains wheat belt, while corn drifted lower, turning down after rising to a two-month high.
Constantly turning down indulgences, from a latte to a vacation, can use up your willpower and eventually lead you to overspend, self-made millionaire and personal finance author Ramit Sethi says.
He was miserable, I was making plenty of money to pay our (thankfully reasonable) rent, and he had been turning down freelance work left and right in his full-time position.
That will be much more dependent on whether the data starts turning down in a much more meaningful way, and if there's no signs of tangible ... progress in negotiations with China.
According to The Washington Post, the Ninth Circuit has a history of turning down the government when there is a likelihood that the plaintiffs' claims would narrow as the case progressed.
Besides meeting Lil John and Turning Down for What (what does that really mean?!), my favorite part of this date was the fact that Blake and I seemed like a team.
That guy at the water cooler scoffing at Evan Spiegel for turning down Facebook's $3 billion acquisition offer and complaining that the Snapchat app violates every principle of user-centric design?
It is so fucking frustrating that people are turning down necessary, potentially life-saving medical care because they can't afford to rack up $1,500 on top of already extensive medical debt.
According to FOX News sources, Trump attorneys are preparing to send the special counsel a letter largely turning down any questions related to obstruction of justice during a potential presidential interview.
Instead, he said "no new deals will be done during my term(s) in office" and has suggested he is already turning down potentially lucrative deals to avoid conflicts of interest.
After turning down a job at Google, Jaime Jorge co-founded Codacy with Joao Caxaria, to make algorithms which could automatically correct mistakes in software code for scores of businesses worldwide.
Since turning down the Mondelez offer, the charitable trust that controls Hershey has attracted a lot of attention, with one director resigning and the board agreeing in-principle to reform itself.
Sources told had told Reuters last month that U.S. seed company Monsanto had given its German suitor limited access to its books after turning down a sweetened $64 billion takeover offer.
The Milwaukee Bucks' owner's daughter is on board with Giannis turning down a role in LeBron's "Space Jam 2" ... 'cause Mallory Edens tells TMZ Sports she thinks it's a GOOD thing!!!
Discouraging drivers from turning down these smaller roads that don't have signals might also help with cut-through complaints from homeowners who claim Waze is sending more cars down their streets.
Despite Lloyd's turning down an initial offer from the NFL team, Galanis said the team urged her to get in contact immediately if she was serious about giving football a try.
Head coach Tony Bennett cited schedule conflicts in turning down the invitation, saying a White House visit would be "difficult" given that players are pursuing professional opportunities or leaving the school.
The extracts are the results of seven years of Kille tinkering with formulas, spending her life savings, and turning down job offers in order to nail the taste of a scent.
O'Rourke was barely seen on national television in the first two months of the campaign, turning down nearly every interview request in favor of face-to-face encounters with the public.
On Tuesday, Papua New Guinea said that it would uphold an agreement with Huawei to build domestic internet cables, turning down a joint counteroffer from Australia, the United States and Japan.
He had never collected Dogecoin for himself, and had resisted efforts to cash in on the currency's success, even turning down a $500,000 investment offer from an Australian venture capital firm.
"Other alcohol companies were saying no, or turning down opportunities to even meet with us in any meaningful way," Bruce Linton, founder and co-CEO of Canopy Growth, told CNN Business.
Moldova, our neighbor and sister in history, has a new pro-Moscow president, and is turning down European integration for the illusion of a future in the Russian-sponsored Eurasian Union.
"The Court is aware that Mr. Kobach's reputation for candor to the tribunal and compliance with its orders is less than sterling," Kollar-Kotelly observed, before turning down the requested subpoena.
Turning down a $2M dollar cheque and all that publicity and the records and clothes and make up she would have sold off the back of it…is God-Level Boss. pic.twitter.
"He was actually turning down jobs to spend more time with family," said the source, adding that Tatum hasn't been on location for a film since making Logan Lucky in October 2016.
For Dolly Parton, turning down Elvis Presley's offer to cover her music was one of the first "really hard business decisions" she had to make, the global country superstar told CNBC Meets.
On the heels of turning down $125,000 from Uber and then quickly raising over $150,000 through crowdfunding, Black Girls Code has announced a partnership with General Motors, which includes a $255,000 donation.
Wendy Williams says rappers should absolutely follow the money if it leads them to Sweden ... she says there's no point in turning down shows in the country because of A$AP Rocky.
Behind the scenes: Pence has been searching for a new chief since Nick Ayers resigned at the end of last year after turning down an offer to be Trump's chief of staff.
The conservative government that replaced Whitlam in 1975 was careful to spend only modest amounts on (mostly Australian) artwork, turning down bargains from the likes of Cézanne and Braque in the process.
Of course ... T.O. famously snubbed the Hall of Fame right back ... turning down his invite to the enshrinement ceremony in Canton for a more personal setting at U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
"He was actually turning down jobs to spend more time with family," says the source, adding that Tatum hasn't been on location for a film since making Logan Lucky in October 2016.
Grassley has declined to talk to journalists on Capitol Hill, turning down interview requests and slipping away from reporters who have waited outside his office or his committee room to get comment.
Although turning down the deal was "really painful," Kattan said that in order to build a cosmetics empire "as big as Estee Lauder," she needs to stay focused on her own brand.
Matt Damon called himself the "dumbest actor of all time" for turning down a 10% share of the profits of what remains one of the highest-grossing films ever, "Avatar," in 2009.
They accused her of pushing "youngsters toward desperation" and for turning down requests for dialogue among pro-democracy lawmakers and groups to find a solution to the impasse over the extradition bill.
Earlier this year, Black Girls Code teamed up with Lyft — after turning down a $125,000 donation from Uber last year — to make the nonprofit organization one of Lyft's Round Up & Donate partners.
And then, later, in the car, he'll assert his desires as quietly as possible, by turning down the radio, right before some asshole relic from another era turns it right back up.
After turning down a $1.6 billion offer from Timmy Hilfiger to buy Lands' End, Lampert was accused of doing so in order to protect his hedge fund's equity stake in Lands' End.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis Landin issued the ruling after turning down a request from Avenatti to have the matter moved to federal court, which the opposing side called a delay tactic.
She welled up as she talked about turning down roles because they required nudity, and about leaving a major television show (it was Scandal, though she didn't mention it by name) in 2014.
Fadel said they asked themselves if coming to the United States would be bad, even turning down the initial offer for relocation out of fear of what their lives would be like here.
In January, LGBT campaigner Phyll Opoku-Gyimah became briefly best-known for turning down the Order of the British Empire membership (MBE) that she'd been offered on 2016's New Year's Honors list.
My mother got so angry when I refused the offer—she accused me of not being a virgin anymore and said that was the only explanation for turning down such a good offer.
Owners of dead rabbit want United to pay up Contract dispute The airline says pilots are turning down "open time" flights and last-minute assignments that would make them earn twice their pay.
Take for example the several women from San Antonio to Spokane who have been viciously attacked, even killed, in the past few years after turning down the advances of men they didn't know.
His small business is his lifeblood, and it's what informs the 563-year-old when he's in the voting booth, he explained after turning down the Howard Stern show blaring on the radio. .
In case it hasn't been said enough (and apparently, it hasn't) — jokes like this can perpetuate the very real ideas that lead to women being hurt or killed for turning down a man.
Pretty cool moments throughout this vid -- from the lead guitarist's face lighting up after Dan belts out his first verse to Dan turning down the guitarist's high-five, in favor of a hug.
It's something more companies are starting to talk about today, especially in competitive fields, like tech, where people with highly sought after skills have the luxury of turning down companies with toxic cultures.
By initially turning down the deal, Nigeria has the "leverage" to "get some of the conditions that they think are critical for the economy to now be put on the table," Kie explained.
It's a step beyond what other candidates have promised before: In addition to rejecting corporate cash, O'Rourke is turning down checks from PACs run by left-leaning groups whose positions he strongly supports.
Facebook has declined once again to send its CEO to the UK parliament — this time turning down an invitation to face questions from a grand committee comprised of representatives from five international parliaments.
MOSCOW — A praised Ukrainian film director imprisoned in Russia has been turning down food for a month, attracting international support and creating an unwanted backdrop for Moscow as the World Cup is underway.
If you're looking for labor groups, you'll see ACTORS UNIONS right there, starting with 2600A, the theme clue, ACTORS; turning down at 22018D, SUNK COST; and turning right when you meet 67A, MINIONS.
The 39-year-old said she regretted turning down a chance to be in the iconic movie when she watched it on a plane, just after she split with ex-husband Nick Lachey.
You vaguely recall turning down a previous invitation, which makes you feel obliged to accept this one, but then you imagine having a bad time because you don't like him when he's drinking.
When a driver who uses both Uber and Lyft accepts a ride request, he or she will switch off the other service (ignoring or turning down ride requests can hurt a driver's standing).
Throw holiday movies in there (you're lying if you haven't put a corny Hallmark movie on for background noise) and you find yourself turning down plans once again to stay on the couch.
"With weak inflation, if not turning down, it will make it even more difficult for the Fed to do anything, between today's CPI and yesterday's PPI," said Baird Chief Investment Strategist Bruce Bittles.
The broader court offered no rationale for turning down the Justice Department's request to proceed with the executions as scheduled, but did release a single line urging the D.C. Circuit to act quickly.
Mr. Thalen, the InfoWars reporter, said he was increasingly turning down leaks that he knows his audience would read avidly and reward with acclaim, but that he considered exaggerated to advance Russian interests.
And meanwhile, Democrats give away their game, this is great, by turning down legislate fixes, who would want to fix this after all, proving that they would rather hurt the President than help children.
In the pilot, sisters and main protagonists Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera) attempt to ice out their recently deceased mother's partner, Eddy (Ser Anzoategu), by turning down her offers of homemade flan.
The RBI has long rejected overtures that might be seen as impinging on its autonomy, including turning down a Finance Ministry request for a meeting with MPC members before its June 6-7 meeting.
Jones' Previous Reluctance with Replacements Jones famously caught a lot of heat for turning down Chael Sonnen as a replacement for Dan Henderson when he pulled out of their scheduled scrap at UFC 151.
That includes turning down contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees, and not taking donations over $200 from executives at Big Tech companies, top Wall Street firms, fossil fuel or major pharmaceutical companies.
The latest step means that travel agents won't send tour groups to South Korea from January next year, likely due to authorities turning down visa applications, Reuters quoted a tour agency executive as saying.
Martinez helps Cardinals past Dodgers ST. LOUIS — Most starting pitchers wouldn't think twice about turning down anyone who wanted to spend time with them two hours before they took the mound for a game.
That "leaving" entailed finding a new apartment, hiring movers, and turning down jobs—all of which ended up costing her upwards of $20,000, by her estimation—because she didn't have a place to live.
He details Tollett's vision specific vision for the festival, which at one point included turning down the prospect of an appearance from English music great Kate Bush: On one hand, Tollett is definitely right.
One company acknowledged turning down 22019 of 160 applications for just one drug in a six-month period, while another reportedly turned down "hundreds" of applications for its drug over a two-year period.
But, Missy is perhaps MOST famous for turning down all the cash that coulda come from her success in those Games ... 'cause she opted to not go pro and instead swim at Cal Berkeley.
"Turning down invitations for drinks and dinner and just staying holed up in my apartment and sexting is about the extent of my love life now," said Mel, a 41-year-old in Seattle.
Earlier this year, Messitte — an appointee of President Bill Clinton — issued an opinion turning down arguments from Justice Department attorneys that Maryland and D.C. lacked legal standing to pursue the emoluments issue against Trump.
Another went from nearly turning down consulting work — thanks to the oh-so-common imposter syndrome, she almost didn't feel she couldn't charge anything for it — to charging $199 per hour of consulting work.
Turning down a temporary reprieve is risky, but a successful immigration case can yield much greater rewards — including permanent legal status and the ability to apply to bring family members to the United States.
In turning down the request, Kushner told then-campaign aide Rick Dearborn and others not to accept requests from people claiming to have contacts with foreign officials, according to a separate NBC News report.
Fox News is now in a legal battle with Ms. Tantaros, the former on-air personality who is suing the network and Mr. Ailes after turning down a settlement offer of nearly $1 million.
Even without a change in policy, immigrants are already turning down government subsidies to help them buy staple foods and infant formula for fear that it could bar them from receiving a green card.
After complaining in the House that the witnesses who testified generally offered secondhand or hearsay accounts, Republicans would now be in the position of turning down testimony from advisers who do have firsthand information.
Many disabled and elderly people purposefully impoverish themselves, turning down paid work and emptying their savings accounts in order to qualify for services they need just to get out of bed in the morning.
Washington (CNN)Figure skater Adam Rippon said Friday he would now take a phone call from Vice President Mike Pence after reportedly turning down a conversation with him over his stance on gay rights.
With that acceptance, the TV star packed her bags and went on her way to Europe to study aboard, turning down friends who wanted to join her and without knowing the language or anyone there.
Women in academic science, engineering, and medicine are turning down projects, skipping meetings, and even leaving jobs to avoid rampant sexual harassment, a new study from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine found.
Kodak Black is free to keep building up his hip-hop empire now that he's out of jail, but the dude's turning down tons of cash to focus on something more important ... TMZ has learned.
On the heels of turning down a pro baseball career, the Heisman Trophy winner has not decided what his level of participation will be at the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine held next week in Indianapolis.
Click here to view original GIFIf the thought of having to 'dress up' has you skipping fancy dinner parties, or turning down promotions at work, Fruit of the Loom might have a solution for you.
If it's the former, your dumbass will negate the two-minute power play; if it's the latter, you're turning down five consecutive minutes of power-play time because you want to be a good guy.
After turning down numerous offers from prestigious US Colleges and european top teams such as Barcelona and Real Madrid, 17-year old Isaiah decided to start his professional career with the Lithuanian champion Zalgiris Kaunas.
By the time we're on the living room sofa, she's spelling out the title of a book recommendation and politely turning down a Terry Riley and Don Cherry album piped out from the Bluetooth speakers.
Espy, following the lead of other successful Democrats in 2018, pledged to cut an independent figure in Washington if elected and he attacked the state's Republican leadership for turning down Medicaid expansion funding under Obamacare.
In fact, after turning down the king's offer to try to form a coalition government in January, Mr. Rajoy has largely stayed on the sidelines of the negotiations — as well as the debating in Parliament.
If you're someone who struggles with indecision — like if you're already torn between other roles you've applied for — turning down the chance to dive deeper into something you aren't even interested in can simplify things.
To the Editor: "Museums Must Reject Tainted Money," by Anand Giridharadas (Sunday Review, May 19), made a case for charities turning down, or perhaps returning, what we might describe as ill-gotten or blood money.
But there is one thing that each of us can do ourselves, in our homes, at our own pace — something easier than taking out the recycling or turning down the thermostat, and something more valuable.
Ultimately, Lightfoot was always expected to support whoever the Democratic nominee is, as she's been adamant in her opposition to Trump, even turning down meetings in the White House with fellow mayors and the president.
Rihanna has been team Kap all the way in his battle with the NFL ... reportedly turning down an offer to perform in the Super Bowl because of the way she believes the league has treated Colin.
He maintained a writing studio in Manhattan until his death, but had no known surviving family members and was incredibly reclusive, turning down nearly all offers to do interviews, meet fans or appear at movie premieres.
Indeed, the mere threat of defunding has already led one of the targeted jurisdictions — Miami-Dade County — to start complying with federal detainers in February, in the name of turning down the heat from the feds.
People and groups are being much more vocal and creative in their criticisms of museums — whether it be about turning down funds from climate change deniers, demanding better labor practices, or refusing sponsorship from dangerous companies.
The 43-year-old Oscar winner stopped by Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen alongside Long Shot costar Seth Rogen when a caller asked if the rumors of her turning down Wonder Woman were true.
And if you find yourself turning down plans because you're "busy" when in reality you're just going home to sip Merlot while Fluffy snuggles into you on the couch, you might want to keep reading. Offers.
It's a known fact that no one is capable of turning down a free taco—not if they're human, and not even if they're in the middle of committing a number of felonies at the time.
Requiring a Senate supermajority is a concept familiar to most Americans that shows some promise of turning down the heat on the Supreme Court confirmation process, a goal that should be supported by all of us.
Pia Kemp, a German boat captain and migrant-rights worker, says she is turning down a medal of bravery for her actions at sea because the medal represents the hypocrisy of how countries treat migrant issues.
The Irish government has said that it will appeal any tax decision announced by European officials, putting the country in the somewhat odd position of turning down potentially billions of dollars of extra revenue from Apple.
Whether it's turning down your Kendrick Lamar when the white woman gets on the elevator or flashing those disarming smiles at white women you pass at night on the sidewalk, black men learn to present safeness.
OSLO (Reuters) - Spraying a veil of sun-dimming chemicals high above the Earth to slow global warming could harm crop yields in an unintended side-effect of turning down the heat, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday.
Jeremy Soule, a composer best known for his work on The Elder Scrolls, was accused of rape by independent designer Natahlie Lawhead and threats of professional retaliation for turning down sexual advances by vocalist Aeralie Brighton.
Turning down a lucrative job offer in the corporate business world, in 2012 he instead founded Springboard Collaborative, a nonprofit dedicated to closing the literacy gap by cultivating reading habits in low-income and immigrant families.
She's riddled with all of the unexamined prejudices our culture teaches young women to feel: that nice girls are polite, that turning down sex once it's been initiated is rude, and that fat people are gross.
I remember turning down my brightness on my phone and checking to make sure my ringer was off so I could text my parents and closest friends that I loved them very much (just in case).
They backed that up over and over again for more than a decade, many times turning down M&A and financing overtures from many parties, including a large subset of the 30 parties I referenced above.
Turning down the attention to club-facing sounds and raising the level of experimental atmospherics on his latest work, the record is a fitting showcase of a producer who's constantly striving to expand his sonic palette.
He had paid the bills by working in the family furniture business and acting, even turning down a temporary spot as a hyena in "The Lion King" on Broadway so he could train for the Olympics.
The decision was framed as a way to improve user experience, but it could also have the effect of turning down the volume on "fake news" websites, an issue that has plagued Facebook since the 2016 election.
At the Winter Olympics in South Korea, openly gay U.S. skater Adam Rippon hit headlines worldwide for reportedly turning down an invitation to meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who has expressed staunchly anti-gay rights views.
Now, I don't make the kind of money that'll see me turning down lobster at any point and if I can give you one piece of advice it's that if you're ever offered lobster, YOU TAKE IT!
Next time we'll be leaving that $12 Sauvignon Blanc with its trendy-looking label behind, because as Milne explains, "Drinking the same wine every night is like turning down a first class, round trip ticket to anywhere."
England striker Jamie Vardy agreed to stay with Leicester City on Thursday, turning down a chance to move to Arsenal in order to lead the Foxes in their Premier League title defense and first Champions League campaign.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a challenge to Google's digital library of millions of books, turning down an appeal from authors who said the project amounted to copyright infringement on a mass scale.
This seems to jibe with testimonies by Thompson, who told Ultimate Guitar in 2015 (partially archived here) that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was adamant about turning down the bass in his drums and in the overall mix.
Beijing and Washington have slapped each other with tit-for-tat tariffs and threatened more duties on each other's goods, with neither side showing any sign of turning down the heated rhetoric or a willingness to negotiate.
These days, he's opening more and more Cookies retail cannabis outlets, including in Oakland and L.A., and cutting licensing and certification deals with a broad network of partners, (and claims to be turning down huge acquisition offers).
Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel, sent a blistering letter to Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, yesterday, criticizing what he called an unfair process and turning down an offer to appear.
She has remained fiercely protective of the woman since the accident, even turning down an interview with Oprah when the talk show queen's bookers said they would only have her on if she came on with that friend.
Football is now known to be so destructive to the brain that healthy NFL players are retiring in their prime, turning down millions of dollars to lower their risk of developing brain diseases associated with repetitive head impacts.
After paying $200 a week to sleep on couches in Breckenridge and turning down the chance to share an R.V. for $600 a month, he ended up in a cheap rental trailer in Leadville, 40 miles from work.
Arranging banks are now taking a more proactive approach and are turning down underwriting opportunities if they feel deals are too risky, in stark contrast to 18 months ago, when almost every bank was competing for every deal.
"The vehicles' promised power, fuel economy, and efficiency are obtained only by turning off or turning down emission controls when the software in these vehicles senses that they are not in an emissions testing environment," the lawsuit said.
Ms. Hensley described the process of designing the kiosks as "iterative," noting that several changes had already been made, including turning down the volume of the speakers at night and adding filters to prevent users from accessing pornography.
Handley admits that starting small made it tempting at various points to consider taking funding from venture capitalists — but they have remained steadfast in turning down VC in favor of the autonomy and freedom that comes with bootstrapping.
Lay's attorney, Henige, rejects that explanation, saying that Lay had a conversation with the previous director of the immigration courts division and was plainly told that turning down the temporary appointment would not reflect negatively on her application.
President Obama will visit Wisconsin today, the only state that used the Affordable Care Act to expand its Medicaid program while turning down the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government offered to pay for that expansion.
AfD wants drastically to reduce the number of refugees in Germany by rejecting Syrians and Iraqis who come from "safe third states" such as Turkey and Lebanon and turning down asylum applicants without identification documents, among other steps.
Today, it's The Sense of an Ending actor Jim Broadbent, who talks about his long road to film acting, turning down Shaun of the Dead, and why he's not likely to work with legendary director Mike Leigh again.
New Yorkers — including Mr. de Blasio — grappled with how Mr. Carvalho could have so abruptly changed his mind, turning down one of the most prestigious and high-profile jobs in education more than a week after accepting it.
Declining such awards can mean turning down money as well as prestige, and when Jean-Paul Sartre, the French writer, bowed out of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, his refusal included the $53,000 that accompanies it.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced questioning on Capitol Hill, yet has so far refused to cross the Atlantic to face lawmakers in Europe, turning down a request from MPs in London to address the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Or, more specifically, the Raiders are moving to Vegas because the taxpayers will be subsidizing $750 million of the new stadium costs and the NFL isn't in the business of turning down three quarters of a billion dollars.
The agreement announced by the Devils comes about two weeks after Butcher, a University of Denver player, became a free agent by turning down an opportunity to sign with the Colorado Avalanche before a deadline passed Aug. 15.
His primary reason for turning down the job, Gemmel said, was his desire to work with the next generation of Nation's Capital swimmers, a "high-potential" group, as he described it, that includes his 11-year-old daughter.
"While many apps are moving toward a dark mode option, we felt especially responsible for offering dark mode because people often come to Pinterest for calm and relaxation, and turning down brightness can help," Chu told CNN Business.
Trump also said on Fox Sunday that he was turning down "billions of dollars of deals" when pressed on how this arrangement could still lead to conflicts on interest, including foreign countries booking events at his Washington, D.C., hotel.
But when you can almost literally put your nose next to Mary Ellen Mark, Daido Moriyama, and Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs, turning down the opportunity to expand your worldview because a few people look the other way seems silly.
Now, Mexican and US military officials are privately expressing those same concerns, nervous about reports that Trump might be considering replacing Mattis, who is seen as slow-walking the president's more controversial directives and often turning down the heat.
Just two days before the big game, rapper Cardi B told the Associated Press that although she had "mixed feelings" about turning down the opportunity to perform at the halftime show, it was important to "stand behind" the athlete.
Here's where it gets interesting -- just last year, Jay-Z called the NFL out, dissing the league in a song called "APESH*T" ... where he rhymed about turning down the Super Bowl halftime show to show solidarity with Kaepernick.
Poland's previous centrist government, beaten by the Eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party in a parliamentary election in October, agreed a provisional deal with Airbus for 50 EC-725 Caracal multi-purpose helicopters, turning down offers from Sikorsky (LMT.
The most interesting bit of functionality on that front happens when you fully cover the right cup with your hand, instantly turning down the noise cancelling and turning up ambient awareness, so you can, say, hear your boarding announcement.
The deal marked a change in fortune for the relationship between Jay-Z and the NFL, as the rapper had criticized the NFL in the past and admitted to turning down multiple offers to perform during the Super Bowl.
It was the Monday after a cold snap, and Francois, who is thirty-one and lives in Bushwick, was in a brick apartment building in East Flatbush, protecting people against another weapon of bad landlords: turning down the heat.
Here's the latest: Turning down terms requested by Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, E.U. leaders on Thursday agreed to extend the deadline for Britain's looming March 29 exit from the bloc to May 22 if next week Mrs.
On the other hand, our eldest was absolutely thrilled to claim the coveted role of Jo for herself (and if we're being honest, she always was the one turning down marriage proposals from men hopelessly in love with her).
In addition to his relaxed company culture and 32-hour summer work week schedule, Fried has grown his business while turning down more than 100 investments from venture capital and private equity firms over Basecamp's nearly 18-year history.
Fried says turning down investments has not only allowed them to rely on profit gains for growing their business, but it's also allowed them to hire when they want to hire and grow and spend at their own pace.
I also appreciated Trump's point that the antidote to our corrosive identity politics is greater love of country — it's not just about turning down the volume on disagreements, but about greater focus on the things we hold in common.
She's a bantamweight who stepped in to a 145-pound main event because the UFC grew tired of Justino turning down fights because of lack of time to prepare, and because she was sorting out a drug-testing issue.
This is not unfamiliar territory for Pence: For much of the 2016 campaign, the former Indiana governor was tasked with turning down the heat on Trump's campaign rhetoric and attempting to make it more palpable for rank-and-file Republican voters.
That means if you don't mind turning down graphics quality, you can boost fps even higher and get a small competitive advantage in shooters like CS:G or Overwatch over younglings who just want to crank the sliders to 11 every time.
However, the judge ruled that OCC could continue pursuing it, because he determined that OCC had acted in such a way (turning down orders from other retailers, for example) that made it seem clear that OCC relied on Sephora's verbal statements.
With many top players turning down a chance to throw on the Stars and Stripes, the U.S. squad are more "B Team" than "Dream Team" but are nonetheless a frightening collection of talent capable of providing Olympic-size nightmares for opponents.
On his website, he recalls turning down the role of R2-D2 initially, telling Lucas "I don't want to be stuck in a robot" "I got into it and they put the lid on me like a boiled egg," he joked.
"There have been hard moments in my career when I've had an agent or a movie producer say, 'You are making a big mistake,' " Watson says about turning down roles — including Emma Stone's Oscar-winning character in La La Land.
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the House of Representatives' longest-serving member, settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 with a former employee who was allegedly fired for turning down his "sexual advances," according to a report from BuzzFeed News.
" Smith, 50, opened up about turning down the role in a YouTube video called "Why I Turned Down The Matrix," in which he told fans, "All right this is one of them stories I'm not proud of but it's the truth.
HQ, the live trivia app that sometimes feels duct-taped together, was giving away $20,000 in a single night, and ignoring the game felt like turning down an amount of money that could change my month, if not my year.
Jason Aldean turning down UFC 216 to do "Saturday Night Live" was a bad move -- so says DJ Clue, who tells TMZ Sports the country music star shoulda come through for the Vegas shooting survivors and first responders in Vegas.
According to Gentiloni, those advocating turning down the proposals include both this movement – considered to be on the far-left – and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's far-right group, meaning there is no viable political option represented by a "no " vote.
Diverse employees are also more likely to say their careers suffered as result of turning down romantic advances from a direct supervisor: 42 percent of African-Americans and 36 percent of Hispanics felt this way, compared to 24 percent of Caucasians.
A few days before Cook's visit, reports emerged about the Indian government turning down Apple's request for selling or importing refurbished phones due to their threat as e-waste, effectively halting another attempt at increasing its share in India's smartphone market.
Jones and his co-founders — Jason Okrasinski and Evan Dancer — launched Cribspot in the fall of 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, each of them turning down other job offers that would have sent them to different areas of the country.
Victory for Standing Rock Protesters as Dakota Access Pipeline Is Halted The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is celebrating after the Army Corps of Engineers announced it was turning down a permit to lay the pipeline beneath Lake Oahe in North Dakota.
LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey does not regret turning down hosting the final week of Euro 20163 and its decision can be vindicated by earning the right to stage the 22016 tournament, said the vice-president of the country's football federation (TFF).
And I've heard plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that highly qualified lawyers are turning down judicial appointments rather than put their law practice on ice for a year or more on the diminishing chance that they might eventually be confirmed.
Broadly spoke with the comedian about turning down roles "where the whole point of the character is a vehicle to make jokes about chicks with dicks and trannies" and her hopes for what will happen during Trump's second year in office.
Jewish holidays begin at sundown, and this one lasts two days, from Sunday's sunset to Tuesday's, so when I walk back into town after tactfully turning down a dish of Grandmother Zina's aspic, the New Year is already upon us.
It seems to be the only way to allow politicians to be interviewed without their words being drowned out -- and until then, a number of female MPs are known to be turning down interview requests due to fears for their safety.
That realization came home with particular force to George Romney, Richard Nixon's HUD secretary, who initially took the law at its word and tried to enforce it by turning down grant applications from communities that continued to segregate themselves racially.
This fractured relationship between the CBB and LBF led to seven top players turning down call-ups for the test event, forcing national coach Antonio Carlos Barbosa to rely on non-league players and rookies to fill up the roster.
Workers have been fired for turning down cops at both a Little Caesar's and a Taco Bell in Alabama, at a Whataburger and a McDonald's in Texas, and at a Noodles & Company in Virginia, among countless other, less-reported examples.
After turning down overtures to work at the White House, Mr. Flood joined the administration last spring, rounding out a seemingly ever-changing cast of lawyers who tried and failed to assure the president that the investigation would end quickly.
Green Bay Packers star Aaron Rodgers joined top stars from around the National Football League who used social media to explain their displeasure with the proposed collective bargaining agreement from team owners, with some players already turning down the offer.
During that time, he continued to work in the role that he was certified for, turning down better job opportunities with his employer when they arose, because a new position (even with the same employer) would require a new labor certification.
Trump also bashed Cruz over his admission that he did not disclose loans he took during his 2012 Senate campaign and framed him as being in the pocket of big money while Trump noted that he's turning down contributions from millionaires.
And I know how to make that like clockwork, and my mom—I don't know if she was off her game that day or what, but she kept turning down the stove, and I was like [screaming] turn it up!!
Minnesota-based Ka Joog, a nonprofit which provides community based programs for Somali youth, late Wednesday became the second group to pull out of the program, citing concerns about the Trump administration's posture toward Muslims in turning down a $499,998 grant.
When I'd see him, when I was in Melbourne or he in Auckland, he'd have a new haircut and some new level of fame reached (his latest high-tide mark was turning down the chance to audition for Scarlett Johansson's latest film).
Facebook is still reeling from the fallout from its Cambridge Analytica scandal more than a year ago, as multiple former recruiters say candidates are turning down job offers from what was once considered the best place to work in the United States.
The most compelling — and funniest — part of the film is when a video store clerk and a customer, played by a French-Moroccan actor who made news by turning down a stock Arab terrorist role, are watching Chuck Norris's 1986 film Delta Force.
Sears decided to continue working with Abacus last Friday after turning down bids from competitors that have worked on some of the biggest wind-downs in recent years, including Bon-Ton Stores Inc, Toys "R" Us Inc and Sears Canada, the sources said.
Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer in the Obama and Clinton administrations, told me that local and federal officials could be afraid of turning down or angering the company out of fear of retaliation from the most powerful politician in the world.
We were turning down stuff for years and just kind of quieting down, and when he decides that he wants to come back, that's when he'll come back, and when that will be, I have no idea or if he will at all.
I battled morning sickness that lasted all day, walking around the office with a sleeve of Saltines, turning down happy hour offers by saying that I had extended Dry January into February, trying to play it cool while burdened by this secret.
After handing over OPA to Quinn (Katie Lowes) and guilt-tripping Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) from turning down the role of Command, Olivia asserted herself as the next successor of B613, officially replacing her father Eli as the new HPIC: head Pope in charge.
He is now his country's assistant coach, back in football after a bizarre four­-year hiatus that encompassed doomed stints as fringe politician and pro golfer, as well as turning down the biggest job in Ukrainian football – the one of his current boss.
In a morning Twitter storm, Trump also said he would not seek the removal of millions of illegal aliens living in the United States, while bashing House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for turning down his offer on Saturday.
A Navy veteran made a big stink about turning down a ceremony before a Saints game, making several media appearances to say that he could not "in good conscious" accept the award due to the ongoing protests against RACIAL INEQUALITY AND POLICE BRUTALITY.
Sports Briefing Larry Brown is leaving Southern Methodist after turning down a contract extension, ending a four-year run during which the Mustangs made the N.C.A.A. tournament for the first time since 1993 and then were barred from postseason play last season.
The latter in particular is a modern basketball tragedy: Charlotte selected Kaminsky ninth overall, ahead of Justise Winslow, Myles Turner, and Devin Booker, and at the same time reportedly turning down the small treasure chest Boston would have offered for the pick.
"You have to thank everyone, and you can't lose a vote, like, 'Oh, that Franken,' now that he's a senator he thinks he's better than everybody," he joked as they recalled turning down a private room at a restaurant when Meyers' visited Minnesota.
For much of his career he accepted roles, he admitted, "that would be the most fun, not the most challenging," while turning down more substantive parts, like the one in "Terms of Endearment" that led to an Academy Award for Jack Nicholson.
I married a lovely, sane man and had a child, a beautiful, bright-eyed son, whom I stayed home to take care of, turning down acting work the few times it was offered because bedtimes with him were too precious to give up.
At the wedding, the president praised Mr. Conway for turning down a job that would have meant reporting to such a "weak" leader, assuming that he had rejected the Justice Department job offer because he shared his disdain for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
But emails that require emotional energy — turning down someone's request, or figuring out complicated details — have a tendency to linger untouched in our inboxes for weeks, sometimes months, on end, like a digital ghost haunting us each moment we open our inbox.
" Mr. Bein recalled Mr. Marshall turning down a "super prominent magazine cover" early on "because he felt he hadn't earned it yet," and balking similarly at "some very notable collaborations because he couldn't see how the artists' sounds would work with his.
But the justices also avoided hearing important disputes by dismissing an appeal in a case on transgender rights after the Trump administration shifted the government's position and by turning down appeals in cases concerning restrictive voting laws in Texas and North Carolina.
Turning down the offer of an abbreviated path to a bachelor's degree at Yale because of what he perceived as condescension to Jews, he enrolled at the University of Chicago and earned his B.A. there after one year of study, in 1948.
And by Monday, fans of "The Big Lebowski" got the rest of the footage in the form of a short Super Bowl ad for Stella Artois, featuring the Dude alongside Carrie Bradshaw turning down their usual drinks of choice for the Stellas.
"I don't think the economy's super strong, but I certainly think it's steady growth and we're seeing small- to mid-sized businesses even saying that they're turning down some work because they can't find the employees due to the low unemployment rate," the CEO continued.
"With the economic indicators turning down at the same time as political uncertainty has spiked higher, the euro zone's outlook has darkened dramatically compared to the sunny forecast seen at the start of the year," said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit.
He recalled first learning about Mario Puzo's original novel, hearing from the men who would go on to be the film's producers, and receiving a call from Marlon Brando (he was turning down a part in Coppola's The Conversation) all on the same day.
The company received an FDA letter turning down its bid to make canakinumab a targeted therapy for those cardiovascular patients who in tests had quickly responded to treatment, as levels of a protein in their blood associated with inflammation and heart disease quickly plunged.
Once Epperson's friends realized she was turning down plans, they tried to be accommodating to help her save: Epperson and her friends started taking advantage of Dayton's great hiking trails, hosting game nights, and all chipping in to buy groceries and cook dinner together.
"Gary Pierce and his family, as all of the defendants, stood firm, maintaining their innocence throughout the past year and five weeks of trial, turning down plea offers that carried no jail time, choosing to maintain their innocence, no matter the cost," Gitre said.
Baltimore (CNN)Attendees at this year's NAACP convention said President Donald Trump sent a clear message to black Americans by turning down an invitation to address the venerable civil rights organization's annual meeting -- the second year in a row he rejected an opportunity to speak.
I ended up turning down the job, and here's why it turned out to be the best career choice I've ever made:It helped me lay the groundwork for what I truly wanted to do In 2014, I landed my first gig writing personal finance articles.
"Turning down money runs against the grain of the thinking that's long governed charitable boards — that they are stewards of the interests of particular institutions, with considerations of broader public interest being peripheral," Mr. Soskis, the historian, said when I asked him about the Met.
" During his first news conference as President-elect in January 2017, Trump broached his business dealings with Sajwani -- and pointed to turning down a deal with Sajwani as his commitment to no conflicts of interest, adding that he didn't "want to take advantage of something.
But while his name has surfaced in discussions among White House officials, a source familiar with Keane's thinking told CNN he would not accept the job if asked, and doesn't expect to be offered the post after turning down the Secretary of Defense job twice.
Related: 'Crazy Rich Asians' exceeds expectations, takes top spot at box office Before the film's opening, the creators of "Crazy Rich Asians" made news by reportedly turning down a big pay day from Netflix to distribute the film instead going with a theatrical release.
Warren argued that decisions shouldn't be made in "smoke-filled rooms" where politicians can be corrupted by money, while Buttigieg countered that candidates shouldn't be relying on "purity tests" and turning down donations when they're in "the fight of our lives" against President Trump.
It was also a move that tracked with Maduro's long history of turning down humanitarian help — he often notes his is not a nation of beggars and blames economic woes on US sanctions — even as there were signs of increasingly alarming conditions inside Venezuela.
We got Rampage out in L.A. -- gearing up for his fight at Bellator: Dynamite 2 on Friday -- and asked the 'A-Team' star what he thought of fellow fighter Holly Holm turning down a huge movie role to focus on her upcoming UFC fight.
After turning down a lucrative offer from the Yankees and signing as an international free agent at age 16, Kepler moved across the Atlantic with his mother to Fort Myers, Florida, to finish high school while playing as a professional in the Gulf Coast League.
Amid reports of several singers turning down invitations to perform at the ceremony, the latest name to be thrown into the discussion is that of British singer Rebecca Ferguson, who rose to fame after becoming the 2010 runner-up in the U.K. series of "The X Factor".
Only after years of turning down a menu of options for further intervention did the Obama administration eventually find itself dragged into a train-and-equip program that had so many strings attached to it and came so late in the game that few fighters signed on.
The court is turning down claims that all Montgomery County judges should have been prevented from handing her case, evidence against her was illegally obtained, she was the victim of selective and vindictive prosecution and jurors should have been given certain information about grand jury secrecy rules.
But several women—and a few men—told me this attitude can have an unintended effect of making some people feel uncomfortable, where they don't have agency over who they dance with and the shame of turning down a dance shifts to the person who says no.
This one is a no-brainer and good for saving battery life in general, not only for playing Pokémon Go. The only downside is turning down the brightness may make it harder to see what's happening on the screen, especially if you're playing outside in direct sunlight.
The Kentucky Republican also said he "can't recall ever turning down an opportunity to ever come down to the White House," a statement that appears false given reports of McConnell skipping at least one meeting with former President Barack Obama, including a dinner in November 2010.
This is not just about the stuff that you learn to do without even knowing that you've learned to do it, like unconsciously tuning out omnipresent advertising or otherwise turning down the gain on the world's ceaseless ambient wheedling for your time and attention and patronage.
She went on, albeit begrudgingly, to the University of Oregon, turning down full academic scholarships to pursue various master's degrees in writing from Columbia, Southern California and the University of California, Irvine, to run on full athletic scholarship at the top cross-country program in the nation.
Delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention, an evangelical church fellowship with about 15 million members across the United States, condemned white supremacists and the "alt-right" in a resolution on Wednesday, one day after the delegates provoked a backlash by turning down a more harshly worded resolution.
That left her at the mercies of Bernard Giudicelli, the president of the French Tennis Federation, who announced on Facebook Live on Tuesday night that he was turning down Sharapova's request for a wild card into either the main draw or qualifying of the French Open.
It is fine to refuse to register a mark because it too closely resembles another or because it is "merely descriptive" (two of a handful of other criteria in the Lanham Act), but turning down an application because the term communicates an edgy idea undermines the freedom of speech.
"Many of us in the biology of aging field feel like it is underfunded relative to the potential impact on human health this could have," said Dr. Kaeberlein, who helped pay for the study with funds he received from the university for turning down a competing job offer.
After spending two years turning down numerous offers to direct big-budget movies — his last trip to the multiplex as a director was for "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" — Mr. Levy has signed on to direct "Uncharted," a film adaptation of the popular PlayStation video game.
But it's complicated by the fact that Pepsi will again sponsor the very halftime show she made a big deal out of turning down—and that by appearing in a commercial during the big game, she's nevertheless profiting (albeit indirectly) off of the systems she's attempting to critique.
More from Julie Creswell of the NYT: With so much secrecy — and bids like Austin's that involve unelected officials making promises — there is the risk that taxpayers and their civic leaders will be forced to accept the proposed terms or live with turning down an enormously lucrative opportunity.
Smarter grids and new forecasting tools could help electric utilities prepare for heat waves, using electronic controls to precool buildings before temperatures peak in the afternoon and then turning down nonessential appliances when energy demand surges, said Santiago Carlos Grijalva, a professor of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.
Since Castro took power in 22009, the island has won more Olympic gold medals in boxing than any other country, but its fighters have for the most part resisted the temptation to defect to the United States, turning down multimillion-dollar offers in apparent loyalty to the revolution.
That decision can boil down to careerism; turning down a job offer now would mean spending at least the next four years — and possibly more, if Trump wins reelection — out of the kind of executive branch positions that can lead to more powerful, and more lucrative, jobs in the future.
Among the banks that have predicted what the BoE's response to a Brexit vote might be, analysts at Nomura said the central bank would probably cut interest rates by 50 basis points to zero if the economy showed it was turning down and might even take them into negative territory.
Sean Spicer has been clamoring to get back on TV ever since he left the White House, trying (and failing) to become a talking head on cable news, turning down a run on Dancing with the Stars, unveiling wax statues, and somehow actually managing to weasel his way into the Emmys.
Negotiations are hung up on several specific issues: Verizon has argued that the unionized workers are very well-paid — $130,000 on average, including benefits, the company said in a press release — and that they're turning down an offer of a 6.5 percent raise by rejecting its offers on the contract.
Another former Fox employee, Julie Roginsky, sued Fox News, Ailes and Shine last year, claiming that she'd been denied opportunities at work for turning down Ailes's sexual advances, and that she was further punished for refusing to malign the former Fox personality Gretchen Carlson, who had sued Ailes for sexual harassment.
In his letter, the esteemed editor Henry Carlisle — he would go on to work with the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — said the company was turning down "Giovanni's Room" not because it lacked fine writing, but because it had so few credible characters and would do nothing to serve Baldwin's reputation.
But it was ultimately thanks to turning down even the best opportunities that came her way, "no matter how good they feel or if they're going to enable me to financially invest back into my art or back into community building," she said, that Knowles stayed on track with her plans.
For me, it's meant I now actually most appreciate the little, local surprises: finding ferns growing in concrete, or turning down a street in the neighborhood as leaves bloom for the first time in spring and as they turn in fall — always a little more sublime than you last remembered.
Quantifying what it means the United States is foregoing by turning down what would have been a deal including countries that make up 40% of the global economy -- both in terms of jobs retained and business lost -- is difficult, and numbers offered by both critics and advocates of the deal are disputed.
While she's now one of the most progressive members in the upper chamber — backing the abolishment of ICE, turning down corporate PAC money, and advocating stringent gun control laws — she was once a relatively centrist Blue Dog Democrat in the House who was awarded an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association.
Where Here Active Listening was a product that was purely focused on manipulating the audio around you — such as turning down the high frequencies at a rock concert — Here One will be a more complete experience, adding in the functionality found in truly wireless earbuds like the Bragi Dash or Samsung's IconX.
The idea that top fighters are pampered and that money is ruining the game has been a fixture in fighting from the beginning, and sportswriters are always recalling a romanticized earlier time, but this might be the only recorded instance of an athletic commission turning down a fight for being too profitable.
In more recent history, Mr. Conway spent time with Mr. Trump on election night and at the wedding of the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, in June 2017, when Mr. Trump even commended him on turning down the job because it would have meant reporting to a "weak" leader, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
CARYN GANZ On a night in which two of the most dynamic album of the year nominees, Jay-Z and Lorde, did not take the stage (with Jay-Z reportedly turning down his slot and Lorde having not been offered her own showcase), the static performances stuck out even more than usual.
Paysafe said it had been approached by the consortium made up of funds managed by Blackstone and funds managed by CVC Capital Partners in early May and, after turning down a number of indicative proposals, had granted the bidders due diligence access on the basis of the 590 pence per share proposal.
"Switch" very, very quickly indicates that the series is going to reimagine that ending, as we see Jimmy politely turning down the job offer (where season one suggested he didn't even get that far) and disappointing Ed Begley Jr., who's playing the new boss Jimmy would answer to if he takes the job.
Nor does it lead to turning down "a sizeable amount of money" from a car company to use one of his songs in their commercials, as he told the New York Times in 2016, or spending the CMAs outside on the street protesting fascism rather than accepting awards, as he did earlier this month.
While Sorbo, Cameron, and the Kendrick Brothers have continued to make films that primarily aim at converting non-believers and empowering the faithful, many Hollywood studios have found ways of turning down the theological volume on their movies enough to entice secular audiences, while still appealing to churchgoers looking for a family-friendly movie.
In any case, younger viewers will likely not recognize Ms. Scott Thomas from her Polanski history and "Bitter Moon," but rather from "Fleabag," in which she plays the successful businesswoman Belinda, who, cocktail in hand, delivers a much-tweeted speech about women being born "with pain built in," before turning down Fleabag's sexual advances.
In December, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp sent a letter to then-Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson accusing the DHS of 10 cyberattacks of varying sizes around the time of the 2016 presidential election, implying that the alleged attacks were related to the state turning down DHS help to secure election systems.
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) pushed again Tuesday for the Department of the Interior to hand over documents explaining its rationale for relocating the headquarters of the nation's public lands agency to Colorado, turning down a meeting with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt as the committee inches closer to a subpoena.
In a morning Twitter storm, Trump also said he would not seek the removal of millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States, while bashing House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for turning down an offer he made on Saturday, including for Dreamers, the immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
Just last night, sitting at my desk and working on a draft of this very essay, I watched an unfamiliar car circle my house a half dozen times, stopping each lap to idle at the edge of my driveway, before u-turning down the street and pulling into neighbors' driveways and doing it all over again.
KIM JONG UN TERRIFIED SOMEONE WILL KILL HIM AT SINGAPORE SUMMIT: REPORT The former New York mayor, who is also part of Trump's legal team handling special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, defended his sharp comments in an interview with The Associated Press, turning down the notion that they could affect the mood before the historic meeting.
" According to the trailer, one of those methods involves developing a signature soda for the Crips to shine a light on the bizarre world of Hell's Angels branded merchandise, and then turning down a lap dance from a stripper of Asian descent because he's "only spending money in the black community in the next three days.
"My personal view is that Trump is going to get the nomination anyway and there is nothing that can be done about it now," the chief executive of a Wall Street bank who once backed Bush said in an interview on Wednesday after turning down a pitch to contribute to a new anti-Trump super PAC.
Instead, he rejected the framework of a deal that would have, with the stroke of a pen, given him a major "win" to lord over Democrats ahead of the midterm elections and into the 2020 presidential cycle, while simultaneously turning down the temperature on an issue that, according to all available polling, breaks heavily in Democrats' favor.
Cities across the country are turning down the opportunity to host the 22019 Republican National Convention, where President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is expected to be nominated for a second term.
After years of reportedly turning down opportunities to write songs for films, Sufjan Stevens did a huge 180 in 2017: Not only did he recently share two excellent and empathetic songs about Tonya Harding that were submitted (and, bizarrely, rejected) for the Harding biopic I, Tonya, but he also contributed two aching and lovely new songs for Luca Guadagnino's aching, lovely Call Me by Your Name.
But over the course of more than a decade in Europe, Vela also became known for a variety of operatic interludes: for clashing with managers who sometimes questioned his commitment, for having the gall to say he preferred to watch basketball in his spare time and for repeatedly turning down overtures from the Mexican soccer federation, a series of disputes that led to his missing the 2014 World Cup.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE for weeks has been trying to help GOP candidates as they defend the core tenet of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits insurers from turning down coverage for clients who have pre-existing medical conditions.
The work has targeted the body, with DeRozan's thumb and Lowry's elbow being the biggest issues, and the minds, with Lowry admitting that he was turning down shots and DeRozan having the opposite problem, eschewing a plan B. All regular season long, the Raptors thrived with Lowry and DeRozan as twin pillars of a guard-oriented offence, dispatching opponents with pick-and-rolls, pindowns, transition 3-pointers and free throws.
And, in an industry that has few opportunities for fighters, especially female fighters, to safely pursue their craft outside of major promotions (rest and recovery, key components of healthy training, are often the first thing to go when you have to have a day job, after all), can anyone fault her for not turning down the opportunity out of some nebulous idea of whether or not she was ready for it or "deserved" it?

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