This public rejection by the community angered him.
It was a public rejection before 34,000 people.
But what finally spelled his end was his public rejection of Trinitarianism.
Presumably the poll focused on wind because they hoped to get some juicy public rejection of the technology/subsidies out of it.
I think the first and second public rejections were sort of worrying, but didn't seem too outrageous.
Racing suffers more from public ignorance than public rejection: the majority of Americans have never been to a race track.
A few days before the President's public rejection of the lily-white strategy implicit in the book, the muzzle was applied.
The campaign also risks exposing candidates to the embarrassment of prolonged consideration and public rejection.
Like solitary athletes, this nation has taken its own long road, including a blunt and public rejection for the centennial Games.
That's created an awkward asymmetry, one where a single party has a monopoly on public rejection of scientific information and certain kinds expertise.