Sentence examples for before rejected from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Obama cannot afford a failed nomination -- the Senate has never before rejected a president's nominee for Fed chairman -- and he has publicly and privately backed Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Geithner for their roles in stabilizing the financial system and averting what could have been a wholesale collapse.

I didn't know, when I ran New Jersey Head Start ten years ago and the Bush administration changed federal policy to permit organizations receiving federal funds to be able to hire and fire based on religion, that Carnegie and other philanthropists had a century before rejected that argument and privately persuaded colleges to do the same.

The agency had never before rejected a similar kind of request made by its scientific advisors and the members of its own staff.

The ceremony and the transfer of the last of nearly 4,000 Afghan prisoners from American to Afghan custody was called off by the American military commander, General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., at the last minute late Friday after President Hamid Karzai the day before rejected several important provisions in the transfer agreement.

The jury deliberated for 12 hours before rejecting that claim.

Before rejecting the proposed treaty, the United States secured several critical victories in the negotiations.

Dick composes "Broadway Baby," trying the initial notes of Stephen Sondheim's version before rejecting them.

The jurors deliberated for about two hours before rejecting that claim.

Jurors deliberated about four hours before rejecting Ms. Montgomery's insanity defense.

After a trial that spanned two months, jurors deliberated for just one day before rejecting the insanity defense.

The extremists are led by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a wily former army officer who flirted with peace before rejecting it.