Sentence examples for rejected despite from inspiring English sources

The sense of being rejected despite all these efforts was almost physically painful for her.

There is still no suggestion that United's confirmed offer has been rejected, despite numerous inquiries made on the issue in the past 48 hours.

But his claim was rejected, despite the fact that he had previously been issued a Dominican identity card and a Dominican passport.

Allan Bakke, a white applicant who was rejected despite having higher scores than the five black applicants, sued to be admitted.

On this visit, he was again rejected, despite having attempted to raise his status by studying philosophy at the New School.

In April this year three bills to decriminalize abortion, including therapeutic abortion, were rejected, despite a poll conducted by a Chilean university showing that 63 percent of Chileans support abortion to save the mother's life.

The premise is reminiscent of A New York Winter's Tale, which audiences roundly rejected last year, despite a cast including Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe and Will Smith.

Yang, then chief executive, rejected it despite it being worth almost two thirds more than the company's market value.

His budget director, Marc S. Ryan, said state employees had rejected concessions, despite the fact that wages have risen an average of 43percentt in eight years.

The girl from Whitley Bay in Tyneside who unwittingly launched a political storm when Magdalen College, Oxford rejected her despite her five predicted As and her sterling school reference.

More importantly, they were unable to find a backer for the Cuckoo's Nest after every big studio rejected it (despite Douglas's father Kirk having bought the rights and acted in the play version of Ken Kesey's novel in the early 60s), so the young Czech director fitted the low-budget bill.