Sentence examples for rejection of the draft from inspiring English sources

The administration's rejection of the draft agreement last summer effectively torpedoed its prospects.

The French rejection of the draft European Union constitution last year, followed by the riots in the banlieues last autumn, suggests a widespread malaise in the country.

It was the house of laity's rejection of the draft legislation last November by just six votes that caused the current crisis, described by one synod member as "a train crash of epic proportions".

Michael L. Moodie, a former arms control negotiator, said that while he supported the administration's rejection of the draft protocol, the administration would not find much international support for the alternatives it had discussed so far.

It was a founder of today's European Union, a driving force behind the creation of the single currency and despite French voters' rejection of the draft EU constitution in May 2005 a longstanding promoter of deeper European integration.

Still, he argued that the high proportion of "no" votes came not from a rejection of the draft constitution, but rather from anger — justified or otherwise — at the Brotherhood.

"I think Schröder's and Chirac's rejection of the U.S. draft for a new United Nations resolution on Iraq is very clear and not surprising at all.

On April 23 , 1798 the Staatsregeling voor het Bataafsche Volk was approved with 153,913 votes against 11,587 (i.e. just 641 more people voted for approval in 1798 than had voted for rejection of the previous draft in 1797; about 50% of the electorate had voted. ) The new regime therefore seemed well-grounded in the new doctrine of popular sovereignty.

"I don't really call it rejection," Austin said of the draft.

The board's rejection of the latest budget draft threw the issue back into the laps of County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta and the County Legislature.

Moreover, this has come just as a new and more defensive political mood has taken hold of the French establishment, following the rejection of the EU's draft constitution in a referendum last May.In the aftermath of the referendum defeat, the French establishment talked itself into a state of advanced paranoia because of rumours of a bid for Danone, a French food firm, by PepsiCo, an American one.