Sentence examples for rejected only from inspiring English sources

Breaking with historical norms, senators between 1894 and 1968 rejected only one high court nominee.

(That court, by the way, has rejected only one warrant in the last two years).

Over the last decade, the European Commission has rejected only 13 mergers outright.

By his argument Kant did not intend to reject atomistic theories as such; he rejected only their realistic pretensions.

She claims this decision was motivated by religious discrimination, as she was rejected only because she arrived at the interview wearing a hijab, or Muslim headscarf.

After an exchange of pleasantries, Paterson placed on the table before Washington the same letter that his men had rejected only days earlier.

In 2010 Belgium turned away almost one-fifth of applications for transit and short-stay visas, whereas Finland rejected only 1.3%.

The surveillance court is often considered a rubber stamp; out of 32,000 wiretap applications presented by the government from 1979 to 2011, it rejected only 11.

"That this was so is now a mainstream view, rejected only by a small minority of very elderly and deluded people, or the German extreme right-wing fringe.

In 2007 the ethics committee rejected only 2% out of 1,014 cases it reviewed of civil servants moving to new jobs.

So the issue isn't that the creatures and plants evaluated during Harper's majority tenure were outright rejected only three species got a definite "no," which is pretty average.