On August 20, 1994 Ferguson appeared before Belfi and rejected his lawyer's efforts to have him declared mentally unfit to stand trial.

He rejected his lawyer's attempt to argue that he was not guilty by reason of insanity, asserting,

On June 2, 2005, the Hunan High People's Court rejected his lawyer's arguments and denied his appeal, keeping the original sentencing.

His suggestion that people with experience in farming, building and crafts be included was rejected.

His suggestion that the continents had been pulled apart by the centrifugal pseudoforce ( Polflucht ) of the Earth's rotation or by a small component of astronomical precession was rejected as calculations showed that the force was not sufficient.

Quite strong remarks: no doubt Darwin resented Lyell's repeated suggestion that he owed a lot to Lamarck, whom he ( Darwin ) had always specifically rejected.

The suggestion of suicide was emphatically rejected by Holt's son Sam, by his biographer Tom Frame, and by former prime minister and Holt's Cabinet colleague at the time, Malcolm Fraser.

This programme covered much of the same ground as Martin's documentary, but rejected Martin's suggestion that Holt had committed suicide, stating that he was a vocal ' life affirmer '.

Although Hodge's suggestion that Mount Multnomah is a supervolcano was rejected long ago, the term " supervolcano " was popularised by the BBC popular science television program Horizon in 2000 to refer to eruptions that produce extremely large amounts of ejecta.

In Pali Canon the Buddha rejected a suggestion by Devadatta to impose vegetarianism on the Sangha.

In 1917, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden suggested that the Turks and Caicos join Canada, but this suggestion was rejected by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

They rejected any suggestion that ASIS was unaccountable or ' out of control '.

Bo and Braun again insisted the Red Army move back to western Hunan to join other Communist troops in the area, but their prestige had considerably declined by that point, and their suggestion was rejected.

This suggestion was rejected, because Princess of Wales is a courtesy title held by the wife of the Prince of Wales.

This suggestion was rejected.

They felt that the word " bum " would be rejected by British censors, and warned that there should be no " suggestion of sexual intimacy " between Sullivan and The Girl in the scenes in which they are sleeping together at the mission.

The censors at the Hays Office initially rejected the script that was submitted to them, because of " the definite suggestion of a sex affair between your two leads " which lacked " compensating moral values.

The Doctor's cloned " daughter " Jenny may also be considered to be a surviving Time Lord, though in " The Doctor's Daughter " the Doctor initially rejected the suggestion.

Khrushchev's 1958 suggestion of a joint Sino-Soviet fleet to counter the US 7th Fleet was angrily rejected by Mao Zedong, who told the Soviet ambassador " If you want to talk about joint cooperation, fine.

The suggestion has been made that anglais might be a corruption of Middle French anglé ( angular, or bent at an angle, angulaire in modern French ), but this has been rejected on grounds that there is no evidence of the term cor anglé before it was offered as a possible origin of anglais in the 19th century.

Salisbury rejected a German suggestion that they ask the USA to withdraw from Samoa.

In July, the Colonial Conference was convened in London, and though it rejected Chamberlain's suggestion that an Imperial Council should be established, it passed a resolution endorsing Imperial Preference.

Premier Stalin, insisting that his doctors opposed any long trips, rejected Roosevelt's suggestion to meet at the Mediterranean.

However Wandsworth's suggestion of merging Lambeth with the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea was rejected by both of the councils involved.

Other avenues leading to the same result have failed: during the 2006 negotiations, North Korea rejected the suggestion that it demolish its two larger reactors.

They also rejected the suggestion of ' New Albany '.

He rejected the suggestion that the Holocaust was a punishment for the sins of that generation saying:

Luciano calmly rejected Genovese's suggestion:

But Gandalf rejected Mordor's terms of surrender, and the forces of the West faced the full might of Sauron's armies, until the Ring was destroyed in Orodruin.

In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.

After King Béla IV of Hungary rejected Batu Khan's ultimatum to surrender the Cumans, Subutai began planning the Mongol invasion of Europe.

Hidalgo made it to Saltillo, where he publicly resigned his military post and rejected a pardon offered by General José de la Cruz in the name of Venegas in return for Hidalgo's surrender.

However, when Paulus asked Hitler for permission to surrender, Hitler rejected this request almost out of hand and ordered him to hold Stalingrad to the last man.

He had previously rejected with scorn the proposals of the French government to mediate between Russia and Sweden on the basis of a territorial surrender on the part of the former.

After his orders for surrender were rejected, Silva established several base camps and circumvallated the fortress.

The Danes rejected British demands to surrender, so the British fleet under Admiral Gambier bombarded the city from 2 to 5 September 1807.

As a result the city was offered a surrender on favourable terms and, although the offer was rejected, the Ottomans retreated leading to a peace treaty between Ferdinand and Suleiman.

However, Antigonus rejected these advances, intent on forcing Cassander's complete surrender.

He rejected all Milanese peace overtures, insisting on unconditional surrender.

His son, Simon, attempted a negotiated surrender but it was rejected by de Montfort loyalists.

Vaubois, who was still hoping for relief from France, summarily rejected a new surrender demand.

In a battle whose accounts differ on significant details, Buford apparently attempted to surrender, but was rejected.

Regaining the spirit to fight on, the Earth Federation rejected all terms of surrender, but agreed to discuss on issues regarding the rules of war.

Much to the Kiks. ádi's amusement, the message demanded their surrender, which they rejected out of hand.

The Tlingit replied with their own demand that the Russians surrender, which was also rejected.

Following the loss of the Pacific Fleet, the rationale for holding onto Port Arthur was questioned by Stoessel and Foch in a council on 8 December 1904, but the idea of surrender was rejected by the other senior officers.

On September 27, Ewing rejected several demands by Confederate leaders for the fort's surrender.

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ( March 3, 1918 ), by which Russia had lost to Imperial Germany all the European lands that Russia had seized in the previous two centuries, was rejected by the Bolshevik government in November 1918, following armistice, the surrender of Germany and her allies, and the end of World War I.

The day after, Christian Frederik rejected the Swedish ultimatum, saying that such a surrender would constitute treason against the Norwegian people.

Fierce rivalries that divided the cartel into warring factions erupted in 2003 when Hernando Gómez, Wilber Varela and their inner circle, prompted by a rising number of extradition of cartel members to the United States, apparently attempted to negotiate a possible surrender deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), in a move which was strongly rejected by Diego Montoya and several of the other cartel drug lords.

After his orders for surrender were rejected, Silva established several base camps and a wall of circumvallation completely around the fortress.

Tomsky, although diplomatic in his reply, rejected the British suggestion out of hand as an abject surrender to the Amsterdam International akin to the 1918 forced surrender of Soviet Russia to Imperial Germany at Brest-Litovsk.