Sentence examples for be rejected not from inspiring English sources

At a great chateau, it's not uncommon for half the wine from the previous vintage to be rejected, not because it is bad but because only the very best will be used for the first wine.

"That is the process that all Iraqis have to respect and frankly any efforts to derail that process, any efforts to use violence instead of working peacefully through the political process would be rejected not just by the United States, but by Iraqis themselves and the international community".

But the department does judge people by their willingness to address their debts: if applicants have "a history of not meeting their financial obligations" or "show an inability or unwillingness to satisfy debts", they are likely to be rejected not just for their debt burden, but also because of what it indicates about their integrity.

He knows that in America nobody should be rejected, not unabashedly and without some counterfeit of a reason, but all my father's nearly three decades as a machinist at the hydraulics plant near the airport teach him is that economies boom and economies bust, and if your name isn't "Bill" or "Earl" or "Frank Malone," you don't get promoted.

The measure was rejected, not approved.

"We were rejected, not our policies," he insisted.

"I've never been rejected, not as I am," he says.

A plan to open a store in Dallas was rejected not long ago by the City Council.

Not for the first time, Moynihan's advice was rejected; not for the last, he carried on regardless.

Mr Cameron's "asks" were rejected, not because they were too great – but because it was he who made them.

It, too, was rejected, not just by the writing program but by several regional and New York theaters.