Word: rejection
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...know the objections. "My friends will reject me, it will kill my parents, my career will be ruined. I have nothing in common with other gay people." Every gay person has been prevented from coming out by these same fears. Yet once you're out, you will see what a tangle of misperceptions and misunderstandings they are based on. From where you stand now, you simply don't know what you're talking about...
...rare suspension of the rules, the committee voted, before an audience of nearly 100 people, to reject a personnel nomination on the same night it was submitted...
School committee members said they were impressed by the speakers' testimonies and moved to suspend the rules in order to reject the superintendent's proposal immediately...
That result was foreshadowed by a closer vote on a Republican amendment attacking what the G.O.P. claims is the President's most unpopular proposal: to impose income tax on 85% of the Social Security pensions of upper-income retirees, vs. 50% now. The Republican bid to reject that idea lost by a vote of 52 to 47. The final vote marked the first time since the present procedure was adopted in 1974 that the Senate had approved a budget resolution as early as March. Because the House of Representatives previously passed an only slightly different measure, odds are that...
...cousin recently told me, "We already have a term limit mechanism in place. It's called an election." If voters are dissatisfied with their representatives, they should reject them at the polls. Term limit laws, in any form, deprive voters of even those leaders who have proved themselves worthy of re-election...