Here, melodramatic excess strikes a wild, wrong note -- a lamentation whose intrinsic quiet force rejects this sort of perverse display.
The current volunteer force rejects applicants who score poorly on its entrance aptitude exam, disclose a history of significant drug use or suffer from any of a number of orthopedic or chronic injuries.
On Monday, however, Adm. Agus Suhartono, commander in chief of the Indonesian armed forces, rejected those calls.
He called for an independent commission of inquiry, something the Burg forces rejected as unnecessary.
Syria's new opposition bloc, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, rejected Maleh's remarks.
The pro-democracy forces rejected the offer, holding out for free elections without such a limit, and Beijing's refusal to budge prompted the Umbrella Movement protests.
Mr. Arafat, who controls the security forces, rejected the resignation, and the ball went back and forth until he finally promised Mr. Qurei some new powers.
Overnight, Egypt's secular forces rejected the country's political process, creating a climate of pervasive uncertainty in which not even the Islamists can be confident of their futures.
Perhaps most controversially the officer revealed that the Israeli military had recommended measures to ease tensions including providing Palestinian work permits, releasing prisoners and providing extra arms to the Palestinian security forces – rejected by Netanyahu's government.
