Sentence examples for initially rejected as from inspiring English sources

Its application was initially rejected as "merely descriptive".

In 2007, Stone requested permission to make the documentary in Iran and was given a provisional green light, despite being initially rejected as "a part of the Great Satan".

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.

Revisiting initially rejected references evokes the berrypicking philosophy whereby information, initially rejected as irrelevant, subsequently becomes important.

Notable among the skeptics of chromosome theory were William F. Bateson (see Cock 1983), who coined the word "genetics," and Bridges's mentor Thomas Hunt Morgan, who was a close colleague of E. B. Wilson Suttonn's mentor) and who initially rejected Mendelism as well.

Williams-Sonoma initially called it Elm Street, a name she rejected as far too redolent of Freddy Krueger.

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.

Did you know that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Licensing Board initially rejected the site as unsafe?

The "genic selection" approach was initially rejected by many as excessively reductionistic.

Being a young hip-hop fan growing up in California, I initially rejected 60s rock as my parents' music.