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Kennedy, who had backed the Blue Knights then Miller after his own offer was rejected, held talks with Craig Whyte over the weekend about a transfer of the owner's shares to smooth any proposed takeover.

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Mr Abhisit has rejected holding fresh elections in a month's time, knowing he would be unlikely to win.

The ailing prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, made his first public speech in nearly two months, a rambling address to Parliament in which he first said new elections were on the horizon and then rejected holding a vote before April 2004 as scheduled.

Mr. Liddell, who calls himself Microsoft's "gatekeeper of funding," spent the weekend devising ways to raise the stakes in the fight for Yahoo now that the company's original proposal has been rejected, holding a series of marathon conference calls with his cadre of Wall Street advisers.

Kiev has rejected holding such votes in the east, saying the occupations and Moscow's calls for Ukraine to carry out constitutional reforms handing greater powers to its regions are part of a Russian-led plan to dismember the country.

Thus, he rejected holding the trial unconstitutional on Compulsory Process Clause grounds; he argued instead that the State's "arbitrary bar" against a criminal defendant's calling a co-defendant as a witness for his side, while allowing the co-defendant to testify for the prosecution, violated the Due Process Clause.

Is this a reason to reject holding negotiations?

In Social Origins and Social Continuities (1925) he rejected widely held views on the necessity of migration and cultural diffusion to effect cultural change and asserted that the socially learned behaviour basic to a culture must be examined independently of biological phenomena.

But efforts to deport Amri after his asylum application was rejected were held up because of his lack of documentation, Jäger said.

[C6.] Senate Rejects Hold on Gas Tax The Senate voted against suspending the federal gasoline tax through the November election, calling the measure a calibrated attempt to cozy up to voters at the expense of the nation's roads and highways.

Sending them to Leavenworth and reopening Alcatraz were both considered but were rejected, because holding suspected terrorists on American soil might allow them to appeal to American courts and U.S. law.

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