Edwards, despite his distance third place showing - and a near total rejection by African-American voters - vowed to fight on.
Highly critical statements by Mr. Grassley of Democratic health care proposals — coupled with near blanket rejection by other Republicans — led top Democrats to suspect that no Republicans would be willing to vote for a health care plan.
And even if Republicans wake up on Nov. 7 facing a grim demographic reality, they still won't find themselves marginalized in the way they were just four years earlier, when both the White House and Congress slipped from their grasp (or, for that matter, in the way that Democrats were after suffering a near total rejection in 2004).
In this way the m-type sections serve to give good stopband rejection near to cut-off and the k-type sections give good stopband rejection far from cut-off.
If a value of m is chosen for this pole which is different from the pole of the end sections it will have the effect of broadening the band of good stopband rejection near to the cut-off frequency.
Its true subject is hope, and bewilderment as well: how do people keep doing what they're doing when so much near-lethal rejection is built in?
The cycle of pitching also doesn't play to the supposedly stereotypical female strengths: you have to brush off near-constant rejection, spend your days courting indifferent suitors and run around telling editors how amazing you are.
Judge Frederica Massiah-Jacksof of the Pennsylvania state courts, who would have been the first black woman to serve as a Federal district judge in Philadelphia, withdrew her nomination this week to avoid near-certain rejection by the Senate.
What did was the near-universal rejection by Western museums of objects recovered from underground in violation of national laws, unless they can be proved to have reached the Western market before 1970.
Comedy on Tuesday appears to be nearing complete rejection: NBC's two new series, "Go On" and "The New Normal," both sank to new lows this week, even though Tuesday's strongest network, CBS, was offering only repeats all night.
Vucinich is able to delineate the distinctive national characteristics of Russian Darwinism: the strong influence of Lamarckian thought, the delayed recognition of the contributions of genetics, the near-universal rejection of Social Darwinism, the early anticipation of the triumph of 'evolutionary synthesis', and the heavy concentration on the social and moral aspects of evolutionary thought.
