The ABCC bill was first rejected by the Senate in August last year but re-introduced to parliament this month.
And she studied at night and on weekends for the bachelor's degree (plus a master's) that she was lacking when her Peace Corps application was first rejected.
In many quarters, the German caution over a bailout for Greece, which was first rejected in February, is faulted for helping to turn a crisis over Greek debt into one that destabilized the entire euro zone.
After patent 8,086,604 was first rejected in 2007, Apple's lawyers made small adjustments to the application, changing the word "documents" to "items of information" and inserting the phrase "heuristic modules" to refer to bits of software code.
The federal lawsuit was first rejected by Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of District Court in Miami, who ruled that the issue more properly belonged in the state courts and who also expressed doubts about the merits of the case.
"It's a surprise to me, and to many others, that some of the honorable gentlemen on the Guardian Council couldn't establish that I am qualified," Khomeini countered, when he was first rejected, last month.
Mr. Obama planned to follow the ratification of the pact by resurrecting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty a decade after it was first rejected, but he will now have to wait until next year, when he could face a less friendly Senate.
In Paris they are designing the Tour Triangle, an 180 metre-high hotel and office building on the edge of the Boulevard Péripherique, that was first rejected and then, after some pushing and manoeuvring by mayor Anne Hidalgo, approved by city councillors.
