Sentence examples for nearly rejected from inspiring English sources

Britishness doesn't appeal to a large minority of Scots, who nearly rejected it in 2014.

Ms. Dinoire's body nearly rejected the transplant twice, 18 days after the surgery and again seven months later.

Earlier this year, Missouri nearly rejected extended jobless benefits for 10,000 residents after a handful of Republicans said the money was wasteful.

Waterboarding has become a signature controversy for Mukasey, a former federal judge whom the Senate nearly rejected as attorney general last fall over his refusal to say whether the tactic constituted illegal torture.

Margaret Doughty, an atheist and legal resident whose application for U.S. citizenship was nearly rejected this month over her non-religious opposition to war, will become a naturalized citizen next week, the blog Divided Under God first reported on Thursday.

Until this year, it had eluded me so thoroughly that I nearly rejected the suggestion of a onetime Pentagon speechwriter that I read the journals of Lt. Col. Mark Weber, who needed help to write a memoir for his three young sons, who would soon be without a father.

He admits to nearly rejecting the award because he didn't think his experience warranted the honor.

Judges presiding over the trial in the contested Senate election opened the door to accepting nearly 5,000 rejected absentee ballots, throwing a lifeline to Norm Coleman, the incumbent Republican, in a race Al Franken leads by 225 votes.

Sir Martin Sorrell suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of WPP shareholders, when nearly 60% rejected his £6.8m annual pay packet at the advertising agency's annual general meeting in Dublin.

The board majority, ending a series of hearings that began nearly a year ago, rejected the lease plan yesterday on the ground that it did not provide sufficient safeguards as to the type of tenants who would use the building.

Einstein's light quanta were nearly universally rejected by all physicists, including Max Planck and Niels Bohr.