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.

Pinochet tried to defend himself by referring to the State Immunity Act of 1978, an argument rejected by the British justice.

In September 2000 the Constitutional Court rejected an argument by former president Arias that a 1969 constitutional amendment banning presidential reelection be rescinded.

St Thomas Aquinas rejected St. Anselm's ontological argument.

The argument is central to intelligent design, and is rejected by the scientific community at large, which overwhelmingly regards intelligent design as pseudoscience.

" However, five experts testified on behalf of Thomas that AIDS is not transmitted through casual contact, and the court affirmed the " solid science " ( as Mr. Huber called it ) and rejected Dr. Armentrout's argument.

Alice Whealy, who supports the partial authenticity of the Testimonium, has rejected the arguments by Kenneth Olson regarding the total fabrication of the Testimonium by Eusebius, stating that Olson's analysis includes inaccurate readings of both the works of Josephus and Eusebius, as well as logical flaws in his argument.

The federal courts rejected their argument on grounds of procedural default, which provides that issues cannot be raised in federal court appeals unless they have first been raised in state courts.

The Ontological argument is also presented, but rejected in favor of proofs dealing with cause and effect alone.

The United States refused to participate in the proceedings after the Court rejected its argument that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction to hear the case.

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.

The court rejected that argument, holding:

The court rejected this argument, holding that the state was permitted to regulate his speech as an employee of the state:

The court rejected this argument ( Scopes v. State, 154 Tenn. 105, 1927 ), holding that the determination of what laws cherished science was an issue for the legislature, not the judiciary:

Writing for the court, Chief Justice Grafton Green rejected this argument, holding that the Tennessee Religious Preference clause was designed to prevent the establishment of a state religion as had been the experience in England and Scotland at the writing of the Constitution, and held:

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.

The first U. S. Supreme Court case to uphold the ban against involuntary servitude was Bailey v. Alabama ( 1911 ).</ p >< p > Requiring specific performance as a remedy for breach of personal services contracts has regarded as a form of involuntary servitude by some scholars and courts, though other jurisdictions and scholars have rejected this argument ; it is a popular rule in academia and many local jurisdictions, but has never been upheld by higher courts .</ p >

Therefore, this portion of the plaintiffs ' argument was rejected.

The court examined and rejected the State's argument that same-sex marriages would do harm by weakening the link between marriage and child rearing, based largely on the arguments provided by the plaintiffs.

) The court also rejected as an argument the potential lack of inter-state conformity that might result from a legal recognition of same-sex marriages in Vermont, pointing out that Vermont already allowed for certain marriage contracts not recognized by other states ( including first-cousin marriages ), and noting that such concerns had not prevented the passage of similarly unique laws allowing same-sex couples to adopt.

Fictionalism in mathematics was brought to fame in 1980 when Hartry Field published Science Without Numbers, which rejected and in fact reversed Quine's indispensability argument.

This argument has been rejected by compatibilists such as Daniel Dennett on the grounds that, even if humans have something in common with these things, it remains possible and plausible that we are different from such objects in important ways.

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg determined that no Allied invasion had been imminent, and therefore rejected the German argument that Germany was entitled to attack Norway.

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.

Congress rejected Johnson's argument that he had the war power to decide what to do, since the war was over.

In a new statement Saniora also rejected claims by Al-Qaeda that it was responsible for the attack and insisted again that it was a domestic action challenging his government's authority.

Friedman rejected the use of fiscal policy as a tool of demand management ; and he held that the government's role in the guidance of the economy should be restricted severely.

Acting on the advice of Alderman Matthew Wood and Lady Anne Hamilton ( daughter of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton ), she rejected the government's offer.

The Lord Advocate rejected Dalyell's plea, saying that the Home Office and the English courts have the jurisdiction over the demand of the U. S. government's extradition demand regarding Coleman, and that the Crown Office and the Scottish Office had no authority over the case.

Although part of the U. S. government's Cuban Project anti-communist initiative, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted ; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President John F. Kennedy.

In his opinion, policy imposed upon the colony by the home government's policy of not governing beyond the Orange River was mistaken, and in 1858 he proposed a scheme for a confederation that would include all of South Africa, however it was rejected by Britain as being impractical.

Many senators who had formerly supported the government's proposal rejected it.

In early February 1990, the Modrow government's proposal for a unified, neutral German state was rejected by Chancellor Kohl, who affirmed that a unified Germany must be a member of NATO.

Political apathy and cynicism were pervasive, with large segments of the population having rejected the government's values.

The elder Hindman frequently traveled to Washington D. C. to discuss the interests of the Cherokee Nation and, in 1841, he was assigned by Acting Secretary of War Albert M. Lea to determine why the Cherokees in North Carolina had rejected the government's suggestion to join other parts of the tribe in Indian Territory.

On 12 April, propelled by both genuine conviction and the spirit of independence, the Chamber of Deputies roundly rejected the government's proposal to change the inheritance laws.

The National Transitional Council ( CNT ) rejected Goumba's proposed programme of general policy on November 5, 2003, saying that the government's objectives, along with the methods of implementing those objectives, were not sufficiently defined in the programme.

On August 3, 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization ( PATCO ) union — which had supported Reagan — rejected the government's pay raise offer and sent its 16, 000 members out on strike to shut down the nation's commercial airlines.

On June 17, 2004, hundreds of troops of Abdul Salaam Khan, who had rejected the Afghan government's plan to disarm regional militias, attacked Chaghcharan and took over the city in an afternoon-long siege.

The Chinese government's request to Interpol for his arrest was rejected on the grounds that the request was a matter " of a political or religious character " and lacked information on any " ordinary law crime he would have committed " The Chinese government also revoked his passport, preventing him from traveling internationally.

In response to the Kiev government's diplomatic talks with Poland, the Western Ukrainian government sent a delegation to the Soviet 12th Army, but ultimately rejected Soviet conditions for an alliance.

In February 2007, Milliken rejected the Conservative government's challenge of an opposition bill that commits the government to implement the Kyoto Accord.

However in March 1960 it unexpectedly rejected the government's budget.

On 4 November 2004, voters in the North East rejected the proposal by 77. 9 %, which halted the government's proposed referendums in the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber: these were postponed and then dropped.

The Judge also rejected an attempt by Factortame to obtain damages for injury to feelings and aggravated damages caused by the government's breach of Community law.

On 23 March 2011, he submitted his resignation to the president after parliament rejected his government's austerity measures in a vote, leading to the Portuguese legislative election of 2011.

* Kaufman presided over the deportation hearing of John Lennon and rejected the government's attempt to deport him from the United States to the United Kingdom based upon his having pleaded guilty in England to possession of hashish.

In 1980 the local government rejected a new chapel within the city despite the national government's support, and instead assigned the building to Freiberg, about 20 miles away.

Under the government's Transport Innovation Fund, city regions can band together to pilot forms of road pricing, such as the Greater Manchester congestion charge considered by councils in Greater Manchester ( but later rejected by referendum ).