Sentence examples for had initially rejected from inspiring English sources

The union had initially rejected the request.

The authority had initially rejected the ads, citing their "demeaning" language.

Embassy staff had initially rejected a request from four senators to meet the prime minister.

Thomas Krens, the director of the Guggenheim, had initially rejected Mr. Goldstein's proposal.

The accord actually represents a partial retreat for several countries, including France, as well as the European Central Bank, which had initially rejected the idea of the I.M.F.'s taking part in any bailout in the euro zone.

Mr. Bressler said, for example, that Mr. Parsons was able to persuade the company's units to accept long-range planning that they had initially rejected as a waste of time.

What's notable is that along the way he rediscovered his identity as a Japanese artist, having initially rejected tradition out of disgust with the hyper-nationalism of imperial Japan.

His support increased by 14.3 percentage points, from 41.7, suggesting that many voters may have initially rejected him simply to keep him from being a first-ballot Hall of Famer — even though, officially, there is no distinction.

Having initially rejected "Ulysses" as indecent and boring — and having declined to publish it at the Hogarth Press, the tiny publishing operation she ran with her husband — Woolf had a change of heart, partly under the influence of another displaced American writer, T. S. Eliot, who convinced her that "Ulysses" was a masterpiece.

Having initially rejected "Ulysses" as indecent and boring and having declined to publish it at the Hogarth Press, the tiny publishing operation she ran with her husband—Woolf had a change of heart, partly under the influence of another displaced American writer, T. S. Eliot, who convinced her that "Ulysses" was a masterpiece.

Palace granted Bolton permission to speak to Freedman on Monday, having initially rejected an approach.