Sentence examples for being widely rejected from inspiring English sources

Even in the central middle ages – when duels were becoming rituals involving swordsmanship – the idea that a game of physical chance could reveal a truth about mind and character was being widely rejected as barbaric and primitive.

50 Also, the characterisations of families as dysfunctional and sometimes even as 'the cause of psychiatric illness,' despite being widely rejected, 112 may have contributed to a loss of trust in services and strained relationships between professionals and families.

Localist representations within this perspective are widely rejected.

"Thatcherism was widely rejected when we first came up with the idea," Jacques told me.

Those films were widely rejected by critics, who had almost unanimously celebrated Rossellini's prior works.

The Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, has been widely rejected by all mainstream Baptist organisations in the US.

The Bush administration memos that attempted to justify torture, indefinite detention and illegal wiretapping have been widely rejected.

Professor Houle's suggestion that Ms. Coulter's views might violate the country's hate-crime laws was widely rejected.

All of these assumptions have been widely rejected by philosophers who have recently considered them (see here for discussion).

The group's claims to universal leadership of the Muslim community were widely rejected by other Muslim groups.

While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community.