Sentence examples for occasion rejected from inspiring English sources

Even the American public has on occasion rejected an excess of elegance.

It's true, too, that while the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court is largely toothless, it has, on occasion, rejected some N.S.A. procedures, and the agency has made adjustments in response.

The other possibility is that the former president and the current one could rise to the occasion, reject the scare tactics, and confront our real problems.

On two previous occasions, Ms. Reno rejected advice to seek an outside criminal inquiry of Mr. Gore.

On two occasions he rejected a compromise settlement of his libel case offered by his media opponents under which each side would pay its own costs and make a bland statement in open court.

On both occasions he rejected a compromise settlement of his legal action under which each side would have paid its own costs and made a bland statement in open court.Mr Aitken's friends acknowledge his folly but resent what they regard as his continued hounding.

He used that occasion to reject President Obama's effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and received 29 standing ovations for his efforts.

But Powys councillors voted on two occasions to reject plans for Llanfilo.

During the past thirty years, Congress has on numerous occasions considered and rejected bills incorporating a balanced budget amendment, most recently in 2011.

He said this was "probably the first and only occasion" that a minister rejected his legal advice in this way.

Wood said it was "probably the first and only occasion" that a minister rejected his legal advice in this way.