Sentence examples for point of rejecting from inspiring English sources

General Musharraf has made a point of rejecting any drift toward Taliban-like rulers.

Yet the quartet made a point of rejecting the stereotype of "late style" as a zone of pathos and quietude.

Zen Buddhism, a popular branch of Mahayana thought in East Asia, sometimes goes to the point of rejecting any such written authority.

Let us extend that curriculum to the respecting of the self to the point of rejecting all unhealthy attractions that challenge their highest sense of what is good and right.

There was no "international style," strictly speaking, just as there was no single Bauhaus aesthetic, but the concept stood in convenient contrast to nationalist dictatorship (especially once nationalists from Hitler to Stalin made such a point of rejecting internationalism).

Miller and several other securities experts cited the 1989 California Supreme Court case Duffy v. Cavalier, which held that a firm has to stop excessive trading even if it's the client's idea, to the point of rejecting orders.

Yet Walcott was too proud, and too rooted, and too humane, to endorse this feeling to the point of publicly rejecting his homeland.

[cartoon id= a18015"] Yet Walcott was too proud, and too rooted, and too humane, to endorse this feeling to the point of publicly rejecting his homeland.

They argued that from a statistical point of view, rejecting the species tree because of the existence of conflicts between gene trees means refusing to calculate the mean of a distribution because its variance is non-zero, which appears too extreme a policy [ 50].

It departs from the studio-financed romantic-comedy template in just one, unfortunately fatal respect: it makes a point of pride out of rejecting cliché, then swoons into its embrace.

By this method, the normal value of PCT is defined as < 0.25 ng/ml – but according to some publications PCT < 0.1 ng/ml is a more reliable cutoff point to reject diagnosis of local bacterial infection.