"reject" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This distinction was formalised at the Restoration of Charles II, when the proposals of Puritan divines for further reform of the Prayer Book were thoroughly rejected; and 1,760 clergymen were deprived of their livings for failing to subscribe to the 1662 Book.
- Mrs. Hart, the I.R.S. deputy commissioner, said that arguments like the one that asserts that the income tax applies only to foreign-owned companies operating in the United States are "frivolous claims that have no legal authority" and have been thoroughly rejected by the courts.
- Although he is called a postcolonial theorist, namely due to the title of his first English book, he has thoroughly rejected this label more recently, because he sees his project as one of both acceptance and transcendence of difference, rather than of return to an original, marginal, non-metropolitan homeland.
- Collective bargaining was thoroughly rejected by the mines, leaving miners at the whim of the companies.
- What a thoroughly rejected little group of humanity they are.
- Mayor Kelly, who swept into office four years ago as a reformer on the heels of Mr. Barry's drug arrest and conviction after 12 years as Mayor, was thoroughly rejected, receiving only 13 percent of the vote.
- In fact, he has a soft spot for Velli, feelings thoroughly rejected by her.
- In 1992, he said, "the more high-tech and the colder looking, somehow implied better care - a belief being thoroughly rejected."
- But at the end of his life, when biology had thoroughly rejected Lamarck and recapitulation, Freudstill clung to it.
- Once Moteuczoma's conditions had been so thoroughly rejected by the Spaniards, for him to continue to feed, house, and support them would have been, in effect, an acknowledgment of his own subordination to them.
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