Sentence examples for he initially rejected from inspiring English sources

Then friends challenged him to run for mayor, an idea he initially rejected.

Kumar said he initially rejected Mr. Rajaratnam's offer, explaining that McKinsey would not allow the separate arrangement.

He initially rejected calls to resign but gave in as the scale of the unrest became clear.

Leonard Marsh, one of Snapple's founders, told me that the flavorists made a variety of fruit flavors for him, including kiwi, which he initially rejected.

The prime minister offered Mr. Netanyahu the finance minister's job as a consolation prize, but he initially rejected it, according to a statement by Mr. Sharon's office.

Marin said he initially rejected the Chinese buyer's offer for the domain name, which he used for his site on trains and trams.

Like Frey, he initially rejects the 12 steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program as pseudospiritual hooey, but, unlike Frey, who chooses to plot his own lone-wolf course of recovery, Burroughs finds himself relievedly giving in to conventional treatment.

He initially rejects Crick's proposal of an intermediary, light form of RNA to mediate between DNA, RNA and protein, imagining that the amino acids must somehow bind themselves directly to the nucleic acid.

He initially rejects the idea, but eventually writes an account around which the story and its narration are based.

He was initially rejected from a high school seminary because he was disabled, but went on to become an intellectual leader within the church.

He was initially rejected by the Dundee office, who sent him back to St Andrews, but 17 years later he ended up as leader.