"The jurors seemed to have rejected the corruption angle in the case entirely," he said.
Mr. Meta, once considered close to Mr. Nano, has rejected the corruption accusations and said they damaged hopes for a stable government.
Though Mr. Abhisit has presented himself as a reformer who rejects the corruption that characterizes Thai politics, he came to power through the kind of hard bargaining typical of old-style Thai politics.
But it is perhaps in Thailand where lower classes have most decisively rejected the corruption discourse, which the elites and Bangkok-based middle class deployed to oust Thaksin Shinawatra from the premiership in 2006.
He rejects the corruptions of adulthood imposed by his ruthless mother and his sexually predatory fiancée in favor of a relationship characterized by unthreatening, childlike innocence.
And now we have been given this fantastic opportunity to reject the greed, corruption and self-interest of Westminster rule and to create a new politics in Scotland.
Voters clearly rejected the entrenched corruption of Spain's mainstream parties, and they want government to address the economic desperation of Spain's poor and unemployed.
He urged people to reject "the insulting idea that corruption is somehow part of Kenyan culture" and "to stand up and speak out against injustices".
Whether Chicagoans will finally reject the attitude that sees corruption as an inevitable part of politics by the time February 26th rolls around, who can say, though it doesn't look promising.
Erasmus sympathised with the Protestants' complaints about abuses and corruption in the Church, but thought the Reformers were wrong to reject the idea of free will.
