Sentence examples for steadily rejected from inspiring English sources

They steadily rejected conventional designs - a suspension bridge's towers, for example, would have obscured St Paul's - for a flat, minimal platform "stretched as tightly as possible between the two banks", as Wise put it later.

These groups insist that they have no connection to the militias, but elements of the opposition are tainted by ties to the wealthy patrons of former dictatorial regimes, and the opposition as a whole has steadily rejected anything less than Aristide's departure.

It is partly for this very reason that Peirce steadily rejected Kant's claim about the a priori status of space and time, and that, along with Karl Friedrich Gauss, he regarded the structure of physical space and time as an empirical inquiry.

Nor is the observation recent; diplomatic proposals to allow Pakistan access to the U.S. textile market have been steadily rejected for years in order to protect the vestigial remains of an industry once powerful in the American south.

I needed to find a place where comely Slovenian girls stood in clusters, steadily rejecting the clumsy advances of Slovenian boys, preserving their maidenheads for a pill-carrying boy from Sarajevo, his body a treasure to squander.

For both phases, the confidence intervals for the point estimates are narrow, the estimates steadily decline with duration, the data strongly reject the hypothesis that they are all zero, and fail to reject the hypothesis that the true values lie on a straight line.

The strength of funds is steadily improving and states rejected ideologically-driven attacks on pensions -- and all of this is good for taxpayers.

His popularity has fallen steadily since December when voters rejected his proposed constitutional reform that would have allowed him to stand indefinitely for re-election.

The tension between Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Santorum is steadily increasing, but Mr. Gingrich has rejected suggestions that he leave the race if he fares poorly in the two primaries.

Overall popular support for independence had been falling steadily since the 1995 referendum that had narrowly rejected secession.

The industry also rejected F.C.C. data indicating that cable television prices had risen steadily in recent years, even as competition had driven down the cost of other telecommunications services, like Internet and phone access.