How To Use Reject In A Sentence

Antifascist groups have had their objections rejected because they live outside the area. Times, Sunday Times
The Italian was rejected because of his weak grasp of English.
An asylum seeker with insulin dependent diabetes has recently had her claim for asylum rejected.
Now that Gonzalez has rejected the Yankees, perhaps he can concentrate on turning a disappointing season into another banner year.
All forms of classical orthodoxy either explicitly reject or reject in principle kenotic theology.

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The demographic argument is a favorite of clever rejectionists.
The P. 's have now got the book, and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them -- _She_ looks like a rejected addresser. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
After advice from the district valuer, they put in an offer of £200,000, which was rejected.
Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
The practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion rejected by the minds and hearts of men.
The ones elected to these jobs, so far outside the safe walls of the home base, were usually the girls who had outlived their usefulness at home or the social rejects from the hierarchy.
One club rejected her application for membership on the grounds that she was too famous. Times, Sunday Times
Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
They can have their cases rejected, without reasons being given, by nameless officials.
A multiparty legal committee has rejected draft laws on mine ownership and is set to send other so-called "indigenization" rules back to the drawing board. Zimbabwe Lawmakers Reject ‘Indigenization’ Regulations
In view of such a unilateral rejection, it is amazing that anyone should continue to cling to the false notion of universal acceptance.
You're probably thinking, if I don't want people to like me I shouldn't wear stuff like this, but let's just say I like rejecting people.
Should I swallow my pride and ask him out, at the risk of rejection, heartbreak, or alienation?
The President rejected the mercy petition after consulting legal experts, including Attorney General Milon Banerji.
The writer of the poems marks parental rejection with astounding empathy.
They can have their cases rejected, without reasons being given, by nameless officials.
This concluded with a recommendation that both proposals be rejected.
Richard inspected and rejected as poor towel substitutes a loofah, a half-empty bottle of shampoo, and a small yellow rubber duck. NEVERWHERE
Criticism that police may have been slow in responding was rejected by detective inspector Watson.
Unfortunately, there is a mentality in the federal bureaucracy that defies change and rejects innovation.
Even if the physician recognizes the psychopathology, the patient may reject the diagnosis.
On appeal to the CAFC, the court stated that the applicants "misapprehended" the BPAI's decision, noting that none of the rejected claims contained the limitations which prompted the reversal. Archive 2008-04-01
Viewing it from all angles the point is, it is discriminative criteria to reject siblings of non Jewish mothers on the logical basis that no female line could possibly hereditarily claim pure Jewish roots going back five thousand years. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
We fully support residents action against the plans, which we understand are recommended for rejection by the CMBC Officers.
He also invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reject the requests.
No one knows why a foetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system.
The big surprise was the strong showing of ultraconservative Islamists, called Salafis, many of whom reject women's participation in voting or public life.
They are loners and individualists who reject activism.
All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
In our Columbia County Study, we relied on parent and child reports of parental punishment, rejection, nurturance, and monitoring.
Today I will be auditioning for the role of Anita, and I will preform a selection from The Rejectionist titled "This Month In Queries" Then the director will say, "I've never read that play" and I'll be like, "Well, you should. Last Month in Queries
There is also fresh evidence of the widespread rejection of GM foods by consumers.
His request was rejected and he subsequently lost his job as a salesman. Times, Sunday Times
They consider themselves girls, but they consistently reject most of the attempts of the culture to feminize them.
The local planners considered the matter seriously, but in the end the officer's recommendation was rejected by the committee.
For good reasons, developing nations reject cap-and-trade solutions, in part because it is impossible to define comparable cap-and-trade policies for radically differing economies in a fair manner; emission taxes would be much more commensurable between different economies. The Advantages of an Emissions Tax
Being in critique croups and entering contests and getting rejections often makes me doubt my writing. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » New Year’s Resolutions
The court also upheld the decision of the assistant recorder to reject the counterclaim which the defendant sought to introduce.
The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
Philosophy major Wylie Dufresne hopes to dine with founding fathers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; compares line cooks to lab researchers; and rejects the term molecular gastronomy to define the cuisine at his Michelin-star namesake restaurant, wd~50. Louise McCready: Curious Wylie Dufresne Defends the Science of Cooking
If it does not reject this biased report, it would vitiate itself, it would begin - or re-begin the process of vitiating itself from its own relevance and importance. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009
Mira rejected the official history that viewed her mother as a traitor, preferring instead to cast her as a martyr to the partisan cause.
The House voted 208-217 to reject an amendment that would have phased out the program over five years.
Sports that were rejected include chess, floorball, orienteering, korfball, sumo and tug of war ? Times, Sunday Times
The study shows that the females have a prudential attitude to divorce, and a tolerant attitude to outside marriage love, and they reject sex behavior before marriage.
The danger is that recalcitrant local authorities will reject their responsibilities.
If the archival filing application is rejected, the reasons shall be stated in the written notice.
More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh told supporters his government had rejected what he called a "coup" against his country's constitution and democracy. Yemen's President Rejects Resignation Plan; Protests Continue
The traveller may thereafter accept the terms of the offer, or reject them and seek accommodation elsewhere.
They formed an alliance with Coal Investments, but their bid for six collieries was eventually rejected.
Within minutes of interspecies transplant, antibodies attack the new organ and destroy it, a process which is called hyperacute rejection. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
She rejected it at first, thinking naively she could continue being a political journalist until she heard the whole nation cackle with laughter. Times, Sunday Times
They reject the notion of group guilt.
Seeking a perfect opportunity to twist those words around into a faux color-blind ideology, they have used them to constantly suggest that those who raise a cry against injustice and institutional racism reject the legacy of MLK. Think Progress » GOP Claims It’s Upholding The Legacy Of MLK, A Fighter Against The ‘Injustice’ In Health Care Inequality
The term "atheist" is itself confusing, since it is often unclear whether those who use the label understand it to mean a rejection of every notion of God, or a rejection of theism. Science and Religion Around the Blogosphere
The Weinstein Co is considering using a censored title in newspapers that originally rejected the film’s original advertisements. Zack and Miri Advertisements Rejected Due to the Word “Porno” | /Film
The prime minister rejected any idea of reforming the system.
Most Protestant Churches wholeheartedly accept the Augustinian worldview (though most reject the Doctrine of the Elect.) Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Two - Grace, Salvation, and Redemption | Heretical Ideas Magazine
in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen
It rejected a host of tentative offers for the business in favour of selling individual stores. The Sun
A third probeset selected by limma was rejected outright by Messina (Figure 3b, panel u). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Dositheus is said to have opposed antinomianism, that is, the rejection of Old The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The apparent rejection of collective action has lead to trade union membership remaining low.
Every year around this time, college admissions officers can be heard humblebragging about how painful it was to reject so many qualified applicants.
It's rejected the Pacific Islands Forum but some of the countries its courting such as Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, even Papua New Guinea, could all bring something to the table here and I don't think we have really trialed that, Jones stated. Australia Urged to Rethink Fiji Ties
The main ethical problems included the health risks for the transplant recipient (e.g., a substantial risk of hyperacute rejection and graft-versus-host disease), traditional animal ethics issues, concerns about informed consent (complicated by empirical uncertainties and the possibility of legally mandated life-long health surveillance), fair allocation of health care resources, and the public health issue that xenotransplantation would allow viruses to jump the species barrier into humans. Human/Non-Human Chimeras
The airlines rejected the accusations and said they would defend themselves vigorously. Times, Sunday Times
Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe -- Life of Robert Browning
Accept it or reject it.
Children who behave badly are rejecting adult values.
In addition, simulation results are given to show the effect of reject the main lobe interference on the sum and difference patterns.
In a story like way, these paintings display the process of love, ‘that moves from initial flirtations, to the ecstasies of physical love consummation, then to the anxieties of jealousy and rejection’.
In fact, ubiquitin-mediated protein breakdown is involved: the plant recognises and rejects its own pollen! The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
The autonomy of the intralingual translation of Ereignis vis-à-vis its dictionary-based definition prompts Heidegger to reject the authority of the dictionary. Archive 2007-07-01
Her lawyer tried to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but that was rejected.
An organization that accepts the antipsychiatry mantra that we have medicalized everything, and their devotion to confronting abuse, but rejects their position that mental illness does not exist. DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action
The proposal was rejected as too costly.
He rudely rejected her kind offer of help.
He heard rejection after rejection until he oh-so-slightly rephrased his sales pitch.
Most of these philosophers reject his non-reductive cognitivism. The Times Literary Supplement
Such artists tend to reject aesthetic binaries of difficulty/accessibility, high/low culture, good/bad. The Times Literary Supplement
You dont have to reject the representation, you have to reimagine it, question its meanings.
Although not all Skeptics are agnostics, as an agnostic himself Dr Groves sees no evidence for accepting or rejecting the idea of any belief.
She is a cancer sufferer who has rejected orthodox medicine and turned instead to acupuncture, aromatherapy and other forms of alternative medicine.
It takes a very buoyant personality to cope with constant rejection.
The items rejected most often included raw vegetables and leftovers. Times, Sunday Times
As industry convention usually has rejection leading to oblivion, it's a record we were probably not supposed to notice. Times, Sunday Times
I urge you to call your state legislators today and tell them you reject these cuts as a stopgap solution to long-term inequalities that women face. K. Sujata: Government Budgets vs. Reality for Women and Girls
During a substantial part of their lives, they existed either under the shadow of public rejection, or in the clandestinity of aesthetic infringement. 2666 WEEK: FRANCISCO GOLDMAN
Though commentators and critics do not agree as to whether the later Wittgenstein is still a finitist and whether, if he is, his finitism is as radical as his intermediate rejection of unbounded mathematical quantification (Maddy 1986, 300-301, 310), the overwhelming evidence indicates that the later Wittgenstein still rejects the actual infinite Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
Kerry stopped short of offering McCain the job, sparing himself an outright rejection that would make his eventual running mate look like a second choice.
A judicial committee rejected his allegations and recommended that criminal charges of libel should be brought against anyone repeating them. Times, Sunday Times
If the number of rejects in the sample is in excess of the agreed percentage, the whole batch is returned to the supplier.
Doing so would smash parliament's claim to ratify or reject treaties.
In a complex of lonely and socially clumsy bachelors, disheartened by too many rejections, she was news.
Logic argued the case for this theory, but instinct rejected it.
I received some shattering news: My story was rejected.
The usual few months elapsed before he received the standard rejection letter. Times, Sunday Times
The criticisms of his testimony and the points derived from the documentation are not, in my view, of sufficient force to cause me to reject that evidence.
Similarly, a rejecting parent may allow the child to behave as he or she likes.
They admitted removing the equipment and using it before returning it later. arket was up from the outset, with shares gaining momentum shortly after midday when Wellcome rejected Glaxo's blockbuster 8.9 billion stg bid, saying it was actively seeking a better offer. ANC Daily News Briefing
The whole Greco-Roman ‘state as natural’ meme was rejected by Locke, et alia. The Volokh Conspiracy » Results of VC Reader Poll
The board has mighty powers to reject or approve the proposed hike.
Throughout her life, Oprah rejected her mesomorph shaped body and revered the gods and goddesses of thinness, committing herself to battle with her hunger and her body. The Dieting Dilemma: Oprah Finally Gets It
A blogger who underwent a heart and lung transplant is back on the waiting list after her body rejected the new lungs. Times, Sunday Times
Delhi high court rejected a petition on Friday to extend his sentence. Times, Sunday Times
Do you reject this idea because you've thought through the issue, considered it from various angles, possibly testing it and then rejecting it?
I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any person's cause for lucre or malice.
One needs to be very careful about asking if modern science really does commit one to rejecting objective purposes and values.
I hope that the House will reject the Bill, but I fear that it will not.
The products are often rejected by watchdogs because of their potential for harming the environment. Times, Sunday Times
Once Shamir had rejected this invitation, Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority.
My offer to make them herbal tea was roundly rejected. Times, Sunday Times
Hugh's rejection of what he has recognized puts the burden on us in the audience to turn from the past to the future, from linguistic purism to linguistic ecumenism, and from physical force to imaginative growth.
The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway.
Make sure to send the master because making a copy lowers the video quality so much that a company will automatically reject it.
Nietzsche rejected the Kantian distinction between a noumenal and phenomenal world.
The postmodern moment in Hong Kong art took the form of a rejection of all master narratives, whether of Chineseness or of Western-centered conceptions of modernity or contemporaneity.
The band's strict avoidance of a ‘stereotypical, gangsta-styled’ video speaks for their desire to avoid parody, and they rejected any script that called for them to present themselves as would-be gangstas.
Some of the best and the brightest are giving up, rejecting businesses based on flimflams and deceptive marketing. Danny Schechter: Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis
However, the reason for rejecting the unanimity principle was itself very Russian; it was argued that one juryman should not be allowed to thwart the will of eleven others.
All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
It sounds like your underlying fears of rejection and engulfment are controlling your life and not letting you share love.
In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world. Times, Sunday Times
If both must be taken or rejected together, an alternative which we emphatically deny, what sincere and earnest thinker now, whose will is unterrifiedly consecrated to truth, can be expected to hesitate long? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
It was that polemic which resounded through the ages; its shockwaves can still be felt in later thinkers like Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) and Zabarella (1533-1589) who carefully examined, though in the end rejected, Philoponus 'anti-eternalist arguments. John Philoponus
Cameron and Hague both continue to shilly-shally on this topic which makes many suspect that they will seek to avoid the issue if they can, knowing that a vote then to reject the Treaty would open up the whole issue of our membership of the EU at a stroke. Archive 2008-03-02
He was afraid she would reject him because he was a foreigner.
Out of 2531 applicants for whom security processing was completed during fiscal year 1978, 775 were rejected.
Children develop a pecking order, not as unidimensional as the dominance hierarchies of chickens and elephants, but nonetheless an influential youth-driven social order with a force of its own that each child can accept or reject, and that can accept or reject each child. Sean Slade: The Child Walking Through Schoolhouse Doors Enters a World
The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
+Foxp3+ Tregs that potently suppressed alloantigen-induced activation of naïve LEW T-cells in vitro and liver allograft rejection in vivo. Elites TV
The special representative in South Africa of the Organisation of African Unity, Legwaila J Legwaila, on Monday rejected what he called the provocative linkage that gave the impression the ANC Daily News Briefing
Should a professor choose to reject the study or insist on changes not agreeable to the sponsor, another university scientist will very likely be more solicitous.
Maybe there's been so much rejection from past peers that she acts hyper to get attention.
I think the president was correct to reject the offer.
Almost half the time, rejection or delay of loans is due to insufficient documentation.
Many judges have allowed abuse defenses but reject compulsive gambling syndrome.
A British woman has undergone a life-saving kidney transplant after having her blood plasma frozen and filtered to ensure that the organ was not rejected. Times, Sunday Times
If we are to reject foreign intervention and reunify the country independently, we must categorically oppose flunkeyism towards great powers.
They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection. Tracey Marks, M.D.: Why Are We So Stressed Out?
Therefore the basic submission that a blue pencil should have been applied throughout the interview was rejected.
Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil. Times, Sunday Times
It allows insurers to reject claims for spurious reasons. Times, Sunday Times
A day had hardly passed, after the second rejection of Mr. Canning at her door, before the thought of whistling him back again flashed luringly across Carlisle's mind. V. V.'s Eyes
He therefore rejected their claims for compensation from the federal government.
Bankers have never been popular, but Washington's rejection of the $700bn bail-out for banks on Monday recalled the odium that attached to them in the Great Depression. A New Start
Like the spurned women of Manhattan, Howard and his fellow rejects should remind themselves they're smart, beautiful, funny, wonderful people who deserve better.
Taiwan should only agree to the torch route on the condition that Taiwan is seen as an international route and not a domestic route and leave it to China to accept or refect this offer...of course China will reject it but this will make China look uncompliant rather than Taiwan and also publicize Taiwan's quest for official independance. IHT: Taiwan Refuses Olympic Torch
She rejected the insinuation that she was partly to blame.
Street hustlers and gang members, far from rejecting traditional roles, continue to aspire to a situation where they can raise their children in economic and emotional security.
Ivanov also rejected allegations that he was involved in criminal activities.
The mother flatly rejected my proposal that she meet her daughter tomorrow.
The application of these tests may increase the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is in fact true.
Note that you can not mix endorsement marks, ie. you can not accept some and reject others at the same time.
President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro rejected his resignation and told him to go to parliament to seek another mandate.
It deals with two women who reject their suitors because they've decided they want to marry men who are more fashionable, affected and accustomed to courtly manners.
We reject green and rotten apples; only the ripe apple is good.
The luminous efficacy constant, also referred to as the coolness index, indicates a window's relative performance in rejecting solar heat while transmitting daylight.
Last week the Victorian Supreme Court rejected a challenge to State legislation known as the Farm Dams Act.
The steelworkers' leader rejected the 2% pay-rise saying it was an insult to the profession.
Its managers would effectively be rejecting the government 's offer of a subsidy. Times, Sunday Times
The motion was accepted/passed/defeated/rejected.
He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom.
Mr. Sistani, the true hero of Iraq's survival and incipient renaissance, is the standard-bearer of the traditional Shiite view of politics called "quietism," which rejects the clerical rule invented by the Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran. Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy
Second, fruitless-bearing males elicit and are receptive to courtship from other males, which nonmutant males reject. Homosexuality and Biology
You will find the fear of rejection, fear of abandonment, fear of being controlled, fear of being unloved and the desire to love and be loved.
Yet his blithe rejection of free speech is a formula for tyranny.
As for brownback passively rejected the appearence of a new species from an existing one, its not necessary to look farther than the story of Johny Appleseed to see observe such a phenomenon right in front of our very eyes. Balkinization
The planners rejected the initial proposal over concerns about the trees. Times, Sunday Times
Karzai rejected what he called the misinterpretation of the law Top Stories - Google News
Any attempt to discuss the issue of human rights was rejected as an unwarranted interference in the country's internal affairs.
She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
The notion of a single cybernetic organism is rejected in favor of a body-without-organs, ‘an imageless, organless body [which is] perpetually reinserted into the process of production’.
What you hear elsewhere regarding mantras, tantras, sadhana, spiritual advice and scriptures, report to him and accept only what is approved by your guru, and reject what is not.
One can never forget how much he rejected or ignored during the years spanned by this collection, from Pop art and Minimalism to photo-based art and appropriation decades later.
The audits either rejected the inflated invoices or required the contractors to reimburse the money.
To be sure, some geologists have found flaws in certain parts of the theory, but few reject it entirely.
If the present economic relations are simply absurd and nonsensical, hollow at their center, something to be rejected, then what is the prospect for a different life emerging?
Kevin Gosztola (374 articles, 154 quicklinks, 81 diaries, 1167 comments [107 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Sep 5, 2008 at 1: 22: 13 AM barb bolin So...That's What Police Repression Looks Like
This was overwhelming rejected by union members who stated they were holding out for a four per cent increase.
The shift to monetarism and the rejection of social reformism was not an unforeseen event that hit Labour from outside.
The mother flatly rejected my proposal that she meet her daughter tomorrow.
Israel and the U.S. already have officially rejected this crackpot theory.
Hard to resist though, when these people, whose brains scream maladaptation with every word they write, know, in fact, nothing of the evolutionary theories they are rejecting. David Horton: Chimp business
She says lawmakers should reject Jega's nomination, reappoint Iwu, and better educate the electorate.
Fundamentalists reject a larger portion of secular society, maintain strong commitments to strict literalism, premillennial dispensationalism, and moral traditionalism.
The judge also rejected Assange's claim that because of advance publicity surrounding the allegations, including remarks made by the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in which he called Assange "public enemy No. 1," he could not receive a fair trial in Sweden. ABC News: Top Stories
She rejected the $2 million offer as totally inadequate.
But Frederick utterly rejected the idea of decreeing on his own authority innovations which would constitute a deviation from the great Christian Catholic Church, more especially as opinions were not agreed on them even at Wittenberg. Life of Luther
Dresdensis) _ of 1571 the Philippists of Electoral Saxony also rejected the omnipresence (which they termed ubiquity) of the human nature of Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 26/CNW Telbec/- Striking workers from the Museum of Civilization and War Museum voted overwhelmingly to reject a final offer from the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation this evening, at a membership meeting in Gatineau. Undefined

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