Dürer rejected Alberti's concept of an objective beauty, proposing a relativist notion of beauty based on variety.

Although modern historians have rejected this hypothesis, Czech historiography has supported the notion of mixed Piast-Přemyslid parentage for Vladivoj.

In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had " much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols ", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire.

New theories of social and political psychology also rejected the notion of human behaviour being governed by rational choice, and instead claimed that emotion was more influential in political issues than reason.

" Necker convened a Second Assembly of Notables, which rejected the notion of double representation by a vote of 111 to 333.

In those cases, the notion of God as having a male gender is rejected, and God is not referred to using male pronouns.

they rejected the notion that " imperialism " required formal, legal control by one government over another country.

Even though Agassiz was a believer in polygenism he rejected racism and supported the notion of a spiritualized human unity.

In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had " much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols ", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire.

Webster rejected the notion that the study of Greek and Latin must precede the study of English grammar.

Friedrich Nietzsche and, after him, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze also rejected the notion of " substance ", and in the same movement the concept of subject contained with the framework of Platonic idealism.

Bodin rejected the notion of transference of sovereignty from people to sovereign ; natural law and divine law confer upon the sovereign the right to rule.

In Luther v. Borden,, the Court rejected the notion that the republican character of states lay within the purview of judicial review, holding that “ it rests with Congress to decide what government is the established one in a State ... as well as its republican character .” In effect, the court held the clause to be non-justiciable.

The other states, however, did not follow suit and several rejected the notion that states could nullify federal law.

On the political side, King rejected any notion of a government of national unity.

Therefore these arguments held that a group of people can join a government because it has the capacity to exercise a single will and make decisions with a single voice in the absence of sovereign authority — a notion rejected by Hobbes and later contract theorists.

On the second count, she rejected the notion of First Amendment scrutiny in copyright cases, based on her interpretation of Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., v. Nation Enterprises, an earlier Supreme Court decision.

On the third count, she rejected the notion that public trust doctrine was applicable to copyright law.

Accordingly, in the 17th century, René Descartes explicitly rejected the traditional notion of humans as " rational animals ," suggesting instead that they are nothing more than " thinking things " along the lines of other " things " in nature.

However, it rejected the notion that all meaning comes from signs existing purely in the abstract space of langue.

In contrast to modern theory, postmodern theory is more fluid and allows for individual differences as it rejected the notion of social laws.

The Italian nationalist movement of the 19th and 20th century regarded Ladin as an Italian dialect, a notion repeatedly rejected by Ladins.

" When the Republic of South Africa ( Transvaal ) formally rejected the notion of British suzerainty as allegedly described by the peace treaty of 1881, Chamberlain and Balfour prompted Salisbury to initiate discussions with Portugal regarding Delagoa Bay.

An argument that the power to issue shares could only be properly exercised to raise new capital was rejected as too narrow, and it was held that it would be a proper exercise of the director's powers to issue shares to a larger company to ensure the financial stability of the company, or as part of an agreement to exploit mineral rights owned by the company.

On the other hand, by emphasizing the medical nature of the condition, this term is sometimes rejected, such as by proponents of the autism rights movement.

According to Plenge, the " ideas of 1789 " that included rights of man, democracy, individualism and liberalism were being rejected in favour of " the ideas of 1914 " that included " German values " of duty, discipline, law, and order.

No one doubted Germany's economic and engineering prowess ; the question was how long bitter memories of the war would cause Europeans to distrust Germany, and whether Germany could demonstrate it had rejected totalitarianism and militarism and embraced democracy and human rights.

However, in 1886 Benjamin Tucker rejected the natural rights philosophy and adopted Stirner's egoism, with several others joining with him.

" In adopting Stirnerite egoism ( 1886 ), Tucker rejected natural rights which had long been considered the foundation of libertarianism.

The majority rejected the traditional feudal development of the doctrine of tenure as inappropriate for Australia, and rather saw that upon acquisition of sovereignty the Crown acquired not an absolute but a radical title, and that title would be subject to native title rights where those rights had not been validly extinguished.

The court rejected the argument that the treatments to which Pitcherskaia had been subjected did not constitute persecution because they had been intended to help her, not harm her, and stated " human rights laws cannot be sidestepped by simply couching actions that torture mentally or physically in benevolent terms such as ' curing ' or ' treating ' the victims.

In 1952, unable to meet demand himself, Brunot sold manufacturing rights to Long Island-based Selchow and Righter, one of the manufacturers who, like Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley Company, had previously rejected the game.

The Shining Path brutally killed its victims and rejected the idea of human rights.

But in 1990, after Arizona voters rejected a ballot initiative to create a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday, the NFL voted to yank Super Bowl XXVII from Arizona under pressure from civil rights groups and from the NFL Players ' Association.

Writing for the majority, Justice Rehnquist rejected the appellants argument for the common law's protection of property against trespass, writing that such an interpretation would " represent a return to the era of Lochner v. New York,, when common-law rights were also found immune from revision ... would freeze the common law as it has been constructed by courts, perhaps at its 19th-century state of development.

" However, Justice William O. Douglas rejected that view ; Douglas wrote that, " The Ninth Amendment obviously does not create federally enforceable rights.

In June 2009, Governor John de Jongh, Jr. rejected the resulting draft constitution, saying that the document " violates federal law, fails to defer to federal sovereignty and disregards basic civil rights ".

However, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court rejected the referendum stating that " The rights of minorities that arise from anti-majoritarian claims can not be subjected to a referendum process which the majority imposes ".

This consideration supports the main argument of those who rejected the consultation considered a violation of human rights, among these gay groups and humanitarian actors.

The Dakota rejected a $ 60 million land rights settlement in 2008.

However, civil rights activists from Eastern Germany rejected the term Wende as it was introduced by SED's Secretary General Egon Krenz.

It was argued in the West that the Soviets rejected the Western concept of the " rule of law " as the belief that law should be more than just the instrument of politics ; the Soviet view on rights was criticized for considering the Marxist – Leninist ideology above natural law.

Professor Carter rejected the claims that students took the Oscar ( and threw it in the Potomac River ) as wild speculation or pure fabrication that traded on long-perpetuated stereotypes about blacks who fought for their civil rights as being simply violent and nonsensical.

ILGA submitted another application, along with another LGBT rights organisation but it was rejected on 23 January 2006 at the Committee of NGOs.

The Supreme Court rejected that claim and affirmed the District Court's denial of SLAPP relief, holding “ The District Court properly denied a motion to dismiss where the underlying claim involved an alleged breach of a settlement agreement that potentially limited the moving party ’ s rights to public participation .” The Supreme Court explained:

Burke's next " massive hit " was his cover of " If You Need Me " ( Atlantic 2185 ), which was recorded on March 15, 1963, which was written and recorded originally by Wilson Pickett for Lloyd Price's Detroit-based Double L Records, which had been rejected by Wexler, but who had purchased the publishing rights.