The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

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.

Among well known ( generally non-kabbalist or anti-kabbalist ) Rabbis who rejected the idea of reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Yedayah Bedershi ( early 14th century ), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud, the Rosh and Leon de Modena.

They rejected the Marxist idea that history should be used as a tool to foment and foster revolutions.

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

H P Wilmott has noted that deep battle contains two critical differences – it advocated the idea of total war, not limited operations and it also rejected the idea of the decisive battle in favour of several large scale and simultaneous offensives.

Richard Overy also rejected the idea that Hitler and the Nazi regime ever intended a blitzkrieg war.

The studio rejected the idea as they wanted a sequel, not a prequel, though Schumacher was able to include very brief events in Batman's past.

The idea that history itself is controlled by large long-standing conspiracies is rejected by historian Bruce Cumings:

He also rejected the idea of hiring an inker or letterer, comparing it to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts.

Wyman also prototyped such a map for the Washington Metro, though ultimately the idea was rejected.

Lyell rejected Lamarck's idea of organic evolution, proposing instead " Centres of Creation " to explain diversity and territory of species.

He rejected the very idea that every explanation of the meaning of a term needed itself to be explained: " As though an explanation hung in the air unless supported by another one ", claiming instead that explanation of a term is only needed when we need to avoid misunderstanding.

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.

The military campaigns undertaken during Domitian's reign were generally defensive in nature, as the Emperor rejected the idea of expansionist warfare.

Mayr rejected the idea of a gene-centered view of evolution and starkly but politely criticized Richard Dawkins ' ideas:

Galvani's scientific colleagues generally accepted his views, but Alessandro Volta rejected the idea of an " animal electric fluid ," replying that the frog's legs responded to differences in metal temper, composition, and bulk.

From his first composition to his last, he rejected the idea of musical development, in the strict definition of this term: the intertwining of different themes in a development section of a sonata form.

This National Socialism was a form of state socialism that rejected the " idea of boundless freedom " and promoted an economy that would serve the whole of Germany under the leadership of the state.

Years of teaching by Roman trained priests and bishops in Germany had led to an educated generation which rejected the idea of divine right of kings.

They argued that existing neural models had failed to produce intelligent behaviour because they were too small, and that in order to create " artificial brains " it was necessary to manually assemble tens of thousands of evolved neural modules together, with the billion neuron " CAM-Brain " requiring around 10 million modules ; this idea was rejected by Igor Aleksander, who said " The point is that these puzzles are not puzzles because our neural models are not large enough.

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.

" Nonstate theorists rejected the idea of hypnotic trance and interpret the effects of hypnotism as due to a combination of multiple task-specific factors derived from normal cognitive, behavioural, and social psychology, such as social role-perception and favorable motivation ( Sarbin ), active imagination and positive cognitive set ( Barber ), response expectancy ( Kirsch ), and the active use of task-specific subjective strategies ( Spanos ).

Communities either could not afford music accompaniment or rejected it out of a Calvinistic sense of simplicity, so the songs were sung a cappella.

* Milestone Radio: In two separate rounds of license hearings in the 1990s, the CRTC rejected applications by Milestone Radio to launch a radio station in Toronto which would have been Canada's first urban music station ; in both cases, the CRTC instead granted licenses to stations that duplicated formats already offered by other stations in the Toronto market.

Lloyd rejected this in favour of a simple distinction of economic class yet for him true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, " associated with a lower class " in culturally and socially stratified societies.

Arnold Schoenberg rejected traditional tonal harmony, the hierarchical system of organizing works of music that had guided music making for at least a century and a half.

Many French critics angrily rejected Wagner's music dramas while many French composers closely imitated them with variable success.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

Ex-Supertramp vocalist Roger Hodgson had already rejected the post, though he enjoyed working and writing with the group, he thought it unwise to attempt to pass off the resulting music as " Yes.

Edward, however, rejected most of the traditional pursuits of a king for the period – jousting, hunting and warfare – and instead enjoyed music, poetry and many rural crafts.

Grunge bands rejected the complex and high budget presentations of many musical genres, including the use of complex light arrays, pyrotechnics, and other visual effects unrelated to playing the music.

The band purposely rejected synthesisers and dance music.

Despite having previously rejected the internet for music distribution, on 24 November 2011 Prince re-released a reworked version of the song " Extraloveable ".

Much of Bizet's larger-scale vocal music is lost ; the early Te Deum, which survives in full, is rejected by Dean as " a wretched work merely illustrates Bizet's unfitness to write religious music.

Prior to D ' León's performance, Cuban musicians had for the most part, rejected salsa, considering it bad imitation Cuban music.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Some of the Bicentennial music was later gathered together with other unreleased songs under the title Rough Mix 2 ", which covered material from 1972 to 1978, and which also contained " other projects which had been censored, rejected, or never heard for various other reasons ", was only released officially in April 2011.

He indicated as examples of what was to be rejected: restoring the altar to its primitive table form, excluding black as a liturgical colour, forbidding the use in church of sacred images and statues, using crucifixes with no trace of suffering, rejecting polyphonic music that conforms with the Holy See's regulations.

Their manifesto implicitly attacked the frivolity predominant in contemporary Parisian music and rejected Jean Cocteau's 1918 Le coq et l ' arlequin manifesto in favour of a " living music, having the impetus of sincerity, generosity and artistic conscientiousness ".

Punks such as John Lydon eventually rejected the pub rock bands as " everything that was wrong with live music " because they had failed to fight the stadium scene and, as he saw it, preferred to narrow themselves into an exclusive pub clique.

Dylan followed " Like a Rolling Stone " with the wholly electric album Highway 61 Revisited and the non-album single " Positively 4th Street ", which itself has been widely interpreted as a rebuke to the folk purists who had rejected his new electric music.

The Cramps have since rejected the idea of being a part of a psychobilly subculture, noting that " We weren't even describing the music when we put ' psychobilly ' on our old fliers ; we were just using carny terms to drum up business.

" Some manufacturers of portable music devices have attempted to introduce safety circuitry that limited output volume or warned the user when dangerous volume was being used, but the concept has been rejected by most of the buying public, which favors the personal choice of high volume.