declination

He could have simply said he declined to prosecute and left it at that but what he did was nothing less than a partisan hit job masquerading as a prosecutorial declination.

“We will say, and our declination letter does say, that the decision of the deputy to jump into the vehicle at that point was unusual,” he said.

Previous experimental studies over several decades provide strong evidence that birds, sea turtles and other organisms key into small changes in magnetic inclination, intensity and declination when making orientation decisions and developing navigational maps.

Before taking a bearing, a compass needs to be adjusted for declination.

In August 2021, the F.B.I. received what is known as a declination memo from prosecutors and as a result considered the matter closed.