`` There is not now, nor has there ever been in Emory University's charter or by-laws any requirement that students be admitted or rejected on the basis of race, color or creed.

Lincoln insisted the moral foundation of the Republicans required opposition to slavery, and rejected any " groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong ".

Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.

In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: " No, I am not an existentialist.

The tradition is not supported by any historical evidence and is rejected by modern historians.

The main reason for the lack of support for these efforts was that the vast majority of Creoles, especially the plantation owners, rejected any kind of separatism, considering Spain's power essential to the maintenance of slavery.

The ELN rejected entering any negotiation and continued to recover itself through the use of extortions and threats, in particular against foreign oil companies of European and U. S. origin.

In a 1986 statement, he rejected " the legitimacy of an Army Council styling itself the Council of the Irish Republican Army which lends support to any person or organisation styling itself as Sinn Féin and prepared to enter the partition parliament of Leinster House.

Orthodoxy has clung fast to the principle of authority, but has in our own and recent generations rejected the right to any but minor interpretations.

However, classical liberals rejected Adam Smith's belief that the " invisible hand " would lead to general benefits and embraced Thomas Malthus ' view that population expansion would prevent any general benefit and David Ricardo's view of the inevitability of class conflict.

Other philosophers, notably Wittgenstein, rejected the need for any undefined simples.

When asked during a 2007 phone-in interview on XETRA-FM if he ever had any notions of performing in an Oingo Boingo reunion, Elfman immediately rejected the idea and stated that in the last few years with the band he had begun to develop significant and irreversible hearing damage as a result of his continuous exposure to the high noise levels involved in performing in a rock band.

Muslim men could generally marry dhimmi women who are considered " People of the Book ," however Islamic jurists rejected the possibility any non-Muslim man might marry a Muslim woman.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

Stephen Smith, Australian Foreign Minister, rejected any accusations of meddling in Fiji's affairs and said that he was " deeply disappointed " by Fiji's actions.

While Bongo's major opponents rejected the outcome as fraudulent, some international observers characterized the results as representative despite any perceived irregularities.

Some scholars have detected a proto-historical perspective in Hesiod, a view rejected by Paul Cartledge, for example, on the grounds that Hesiod advocates a not-forgetting without any attempt at verification.

During the whole interwar period, the British, appealing to the terms of the Mandate, rejected the principle of majority rule or any other measure that would give the Arab majority control over the government of Palestine.

Recently Erika Steinbach, the chair of the Federation of Expellees has rejected any compensation claims.

On July 3, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment and denounced the tribunal as a plot against the party, vowing that the named persons would not be arrested under any circumstances.

Mainly because of its prohibition of all forms of artificial contraception, the encyclical was controversial, as it rejected the majority report on the subject, embracing a minority report maintaining the status quo, and Paul VI did not issue any additional encyclicals in the remaining ten years of his pontificate.

In Judaism, the references to The Spirit of God, Ruach HaKodesh, The Holy Spirit of YHWH, abound, however it has rejected any idea of The Eternal God as being either Dual or Triune.

Although he rejected the transcendental / metaphysical interpretation given to these phenomena outright, Braid accepted that these accounts of Oriental practices supported his view that the effects of hypnotism could be produced in solitude, without the presence of any other person ( as he had already proved to his own satisfaction with the experiments he had conducted in November 1841 ); and he saw correlations between many of the " metaphysical " Oriental practices and his own " rational " neuro-hypnotism, and totally rejected all of the fluid theories and magnetic practices of the mesmerists.

At the time of establishment, the US government was not a member of ILO, as the US Senate rejected the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the US could not join any of its agencies.

International co-productions of the kind which were becoming common in France and Italy tended to be rejected by German producers ( Schneider 1990: 43 ).

In the United States, the LDS Church has applied for a trademark on " Mormon " as applied to religious services ; however, the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the application, stating that the term " Mormon " was too generic, and is popularly understood as referring to a particular kind of church, similar to " Presbyterian " or " Methodist ", rather than a service mark.

He met with Soviet representatives including Foreign Minister Georgi Chicherin, who rejected any kind of religious education, the ordination of priests and bishops, but offered agreements without the points vital to the Vatican.

John Adams wrote the preamble, which stated that because King George had rejected reconciliation and was hiring foreign mercenaries to use against the colonies, " it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed ".

The myth can be traced back to Plutarch, who includes no less than 17 " sayings " of " Spartan women ," all of which paraphrase or elaborate on the theme that Spartan mothers rejected their own offspring if they showed any kind of cowardice.

* Comparison ( Upamana ) could also be rejected as the means of the knowledge of the connection, since objective of using Upamana is to establish a different kind of knowledge than is being sought here, the relation of a name to something so named.

" Jones C. ( 1986 ), on the other hand, rejected the idea of the computer being " some kind of inferior teacher-substitute " and proposed a methodology that focused more on what teachers could do with computer programs rather than what computer programs could do on their own: " in other words, treating the computer as they would any other classroom aid ".

He speaks of " a new kind of superficiality " or " depthlessness " in which models that once explained people and things in terms of an " inside " and an " outside " ( such as hermeneutics, the dialectic, Freudian repression, the existentialist distinction between authenticity and inauthenticity and the semiotic distinction of signifier and signified ) have been rejected.

His view of arithmetical algebra is as follows: " In arithmetical algebra we consider symbols as representing numbers, and the operations to which they are submitted as included in the same definitions as in common arithmetic ; the signs and denote the operations of addition and subtraction in their ordinary meaning only, and those operations are considered as impossible in all cases where the symbols subjected to them possess values which would render them so in case they were replaced by digital numbers ; thus in expressions such as we must suppose and to be quantities of the same kind ; in others, like, we must suppose greater than and therefore homogeneous with it ; in products and quotients, like and we must suppose the multiplier and divisor to be abstract numbers ; all results whatsoever, including negative quantities, which are not strictly deducible as legitimate conclusions from the definitions of the several operations must be rejected as impossible, or as foreign to the science.

I rejected this demand somewhat sternly, as it is neither right nor possible to undertake engagements of this kind ever and ever.

The group openly expressed their opposition towards any government that was guided by any other system besides the Marxist-Leninist principles and rejected any kind of support or solidarity towards the Puerto Rican independence coming from the government of these countries.

Sheaffer remarked, " the kind of stories generating excitement and attention in any given year would have been rejected by mainstream ufologists a few years earlier for being too outlandish.

For the Calvinist, Faustus represents the worst kind of sinner, having tasted the heavenly gift and rejected it.

At the same time, most of the former slaves had labor but no money and no land ; they rejected the kind of gang labor that typified slavery.

" Abandoning traditional plot and conventional " character development ," Fellini and co-screenwriters Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, forged a cinematic narrative that rejected continuity, unnecessary explanations, and narrative logic in favour of seven non-linear encounters between Marcello, a kind of Dantesque Pilgrim, and an underworld of 120 different characters.

Most courts have rejected the arguments for seeking damages in this kind of case.

He had a militant style of defending " black qualities " and rejected any kind of reconciliation with the West.

Despite of his theories being rejected as early as the mid-1910s, Abderhalden still loomed large as a kind of " father figure " in parts of the German scientific community and only by Deichmann and Müller-Hill's scathing 1998 review, the entire extent of the rejection was revealed.

In the United States, in 2002, the LDS Church applied for a trademark on " Mormon " as applied to religious services ; however, the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the application, stating that the term " Mormon " was too generic, and is popularly understood as referring to a particular kind of church, similar to " Presbyterian " or " Methodist ", rather than a service mark.

A subculture rejected this kind of socially-aware lyrics.

Stalin also rejected any kind of distinctions between his military rank and the other Soviet marshals, and kept using the original Marshal of the Soviet Union insignia and uniform like the other Soviet Marshals.

Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj has rejected any kind of human or animal sacrifice in vedik yagyas.

Michael is found to be alive in " Vengeance ", having been rescued by the Wraith but once again rejected by his kind for his " human " taint, and forced to escape.