31.   No commissioner has the power to make someone turn down what he thinks is a better deal.

32.   Offered the job, Jory said he seriously considered it but ultimately turned it down.

33.   Ovitz is likely to earn less money than if he had accepted the position of head of Universal Studios, a position he turned down a few weeks ago.

34.   Q. Still, I got the sense from your book that even the people who turned you down forced you to improve your product.

35.   Pia took the commission after muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros turned it down in a dispute over artistic freedom.

36.   Several property owners turned him down when they found out he wanted to house Chinese boys.

37.   Several turned it down, fearful of the litigious Fayed.

38.   She says she has turned down advertising for products like vitamins and promotions for sites selling Viagra.

39.   She was offered a job but turned it down, according to a Democratic Party aide who insisted on anonymity.

40.   So sure of his future earning power on the open market, Jackson turned it down.