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Thus, he rejected the French Revolution and the modern welfare state as much as he opposed Muslim immigration.
Likewise, remuneration policies were rejected by nearly 36% of shareholders at Unilever and 34% at AIG.
Indian voters decisively rejected the Congress party, which had governed India virtually without interruption since it gained independence from Britain in 1947.
The speech drew the most attention for calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, but the effect was undercut when Israel flatly rejected the US position.
The German Chancellor categorically rejected May’s proposal to do a “side deal” on European Union nationals living in Britain before the United Kingdom officially triggers Brexit negotiations by invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon.
The consequences of this process are likely to be most spectacular, at least in the short run, not in the elected few but in the rejected many.
More than with geopolitical or cultural realities, however, such a division would be based on the perceptions and self-perceptions of the rejected, and would be heavily dependent upon their own attitudes and strategies.
The idea that hereditary monarchs were somehow spiritually superior to the rest of us was decisively rejected.
Is it not true that values which the West believed universal are rejected as unfit by Asia's confident new leaders?
Restart the Talks on CyprusLONDON -- Ever since Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations plan to reunite Cyprus in 2004, antagonism has grown between the Greek majority and the Turks in the north of the island.
Moreover, there seems little doubt that the final, rejected version of the UN’s 2003-04 reunification plan will have to be changed, although earlier versions might contain ideas worth re-visiting.
But the European Court of Justice and the German Constitutional Court have, all in all, rejected that view.
In 2015, however, the federal accounting tribunal (TCU) rejected her accounts and accused Rousseff of committing fiscal irregularities.
Not surprisingly, the government in Khartoum rejected the idea.
Still, though Ukraine’s chief rabbis and Jewish leaders have emphatically rejected Putin’s claims of anti-Semitic excesses, there is enough hatred and blood in Ukraine’s recent history to make one worry.
Most of their compatriots rejected it, as did the Palestinians.
He told them that he rejected cruelty to animals, but insisted that it was his duty to promote the interests of people before dogs.
An agreement to amend the new articles was reached, but the Ennahda-dominated Constituent Assembly rejected the agreement a week later – the third time Ennahda’s elected members have refused to honor a commitment made by the party’s leadership.
Most economists rejected these “revisionist” views, and argued that Japan’s current-account surplus was large because its national saving rate was high, which reflected demographics, not cultural differences or government policies.
To be sure, the IMF rejected this proposition in 2011, because the renminbi did not yet meet the criteria of a freely convertible currency.
And he is ready to renounce rules-based cooperation across the board, from trade (he has already rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal) to climate change (he has threatened to withdraw from the historic agreement reached last year in Paris).
Instead of banking the political capital that his high approval ratings had given him, he chose to spend some of it on an initiative that his predecessors had rejected, but that will help to transform myriad aspects of Japan’s economy.
After all, Prime Minister David Cameron and his government had to pretend that they would contemplate a breakup if the EU rejected their demands.
If Britain rejected these encroachments on national sovereignty, its service industries would be locked out of the single market.
Although Cypriot lawmakers decisively rejected the plan to impose a one-time tax of almost 7% on such deposits only a couple of days after it was presented, the damage has been done.
Since 2000, when PLO leader Yasir Arafat rejected a political settlement and instead launched a five-year war of terrorism, there have been few optimists left.
To focus the discussion, we can ask the following question: Did the status quo rejected by the Obama’s and Huckabee’s voters include the deterioration of American-European relations under the Presidency of George W. Bush?
On two of the last three occasions that the Irish have been asked to vote on an EU Treaty, they have rejected the proposal.
But there is a disconcerting undertone to this new round of criticism that needs to be made explicit – and rejected.
George W. Bush’s administration might well have rejected such efforts, but the British government could then have exercised the option of distancing itself from a policy that many believed was unlikely to succeed.
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