The phrase "act was rejected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a proposal, legislation, or similar action has been denied or not accepted.
Example: "The proposed act was rejected by the committee after a lengthy discussion."
Alternatives: "measure was turned down" or "bill was dismissed."
That premise, contained in the Norris-LaGuardia Act, was rejected by Nelson in her 89-page decision, in which she wrote that she did not believe the act applied to the N.F.L.'s dispute with players because the union has disbanded.
This argument, and a proposal to exempt the construction industry from the Act, was rejected by both the Law Commission and Parliament.
But if the act is rejected, she said, alternative financing would probably not be found for all the transportation improvements now contemplated by city and state agencies.
Four requests by her parents for an assessment of McCulloch under the Mental Health Act were rejected by the local approved mental health professional service, run jointly by Bedford borough council, Central Bedfordshire council and East London NHS foundation trust.
Around 17percentt of people who tried to buy coverage on the individual market in the days before the Affordable Care Act were rejected, according to the same study.
It will be hard to top the "Spielberg exception," but perhaps Kagan can make something of the "Romney exception" — namely, the fact that the same arguments about the economic effects of self-insurance that Mitt Romney used to justify health-care reform in Massachusetts are the ones that lawyers challenging the Affordable Care Act are rejecting before the Supreme Court.
These criminal acts are rejected by Islam, all religions, all human values and all ethics," said the imam of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Madrid.
These criminal acts are rejected by Islam, all religions, all human values, and all ethics," said the imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Madrid.
When The Associated Press sought the data under the Freedom of Information Act, the request was rejected by a high NASA official.
In 1957, the Wolfenden report had recommended the decriminalisation of homosexual acts, but this was rejected by the Conservative government.
"The last time this was debated – during the passage of the Human Rights Act in 1998 – restoration was rejected by 158votess.
