The phrase "rejects efforts" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to refuse or decline to accept someone's attempts or endeavors. Here is an example sentence: The company's CEO rejects efforts to cut employee benefits, causing discontent among the staff.
President Obama got it right saying the United States "rejects efforts to denigrate" others' religious beliefs, while expressing unequivocal opposition to the "senseless violence" that killed Stevens.
The statement, which rejects "efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims," was released before the protests started in an effort to cool tensions.
"While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," he said, "we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants".
Kristen Brengel, vice president of government affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association, said in an interview that she and others "just hope the American public rejects" efforts to curtail the act.
"While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants," Mr. Obama said in a statement released by the White House.
The president has ordered stepped-up security around the world and added: "While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants".
UN rejects effort to delay trials of Kenyan leaders.
On Tuesday the Court rejected efforts from Mississippi and Wisconsin to reinstate similar laws.
For years, Ms. Montenegro rejected efforts by officials and advocates to discover her true identity.
The Cairo outpost rejected "efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims".
People in this tradition reject efforts to divide the country between haves and have-nots.
