Sentence examples for was overwhelmingly rejected from inspiring English sources

"Not only am I against it, it was overwhelmingly rejected by the public.

After eight hours of debate, the plan was overwhelmingly rejected, by 313 votes to 29.

The treaty was overwhelmingly rejected by both parties in Congress, in part because it left out China, now the world's largest emitter of carbon.

But for Obama, this was an unmitigated defeat as one of the key priorities of his second term was overwhelmingly rejected by his own party.

Jeremy Corbyn has suffered a major blow to his authority after a bid by the Labour leadership to press for a vote on the renewal of the Trident nuclear programme was overwhelmingly rejected at the party's conference.

The promise and related subjects were discussed at a contentious, all-day board meeting in San Francisco on July 9, and a motion to rescind the promise was overwhelmingly rejected by a voice vote.

Personhood proposals were overwhelmingly rejected in Colorado in 2010 and 2008.

When a party in government is overwhelmingly rejected by voters, it is usually because another party is offering a radically different perspective.

Plans for devolution by directly elected mayors were overwhelmingly rejected at by voters at referendum across the country, including the north.

A proposed business improvement district, or BID, for SoHo's Broadway corridor, to be financed by assessments on property owners, was approved by the City Planning Commission in January, despite having been overwhelmingly rejected by Community Board 2, an advisory group.

Though the proposals to enact the cuts were overwhelmingly rejected, the debate kept the measure from being moved forward and frustrated House leaders who want to make progress on the spending bills.