Rejecting offers of reward, Daniel warns the king of the folly of his arrogant blasphemy before reading the text.

" Rejecting Cicero's view that men join in society primarily through " a certain social spirit which nature has implanted in man ," Hobbes declares that men join in society simply for the purpose of " getting themselves out from that miserable condition of Warre, which is necessarily consequent ... to the naturall Passions of men, when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe.

Rejecting advice from one captain to surround and starve the Prince — a tactic Edward feared — John attacked the strong enemy position.

Rejecting the British model, Iwakura and other conservatives borrowed heavily from the Prussian constitutional system.

Rejecting the state's argument that Amendment 2 merely blocked gay people from receiving " special rights ", Kennedy wrote:

Rejecting the idea of a sanatorium on the basis that it would cut her off from writing, she took the only available option, to move abroad during the English winter.

Rejecting the claims of Berzelius, Liebig, Traube and others that fermentation resulted from chemical agents or catalysts within cells, he concluded that fermentation was a " vital action ".

Rejecting overtures from Russia, he endeavoured to form an alliance with Great Britain, and welcomed Alexander Burnes to Kabul in 1837.

Tyler Ramsey claims that, " Rejecting brushes gives a painter the opportunity to approach the craft from a fresh perspective.

" ( 8. 17 ) Rejecting domestication of the Word in the Church, The Declaration points to the inalienable lordship of Jesus Christ by the Spirit and to the external character of church unity which " can come only from the Word of God in faith through the Holy Spirit.

Rejecting an offer from the Armenian King Artavasdes II to invade Parthia via Armenia, Crassus marched his army directly through the deserts of Mesopotamia.

" Rejecting modern architecture for its " characterless copybook effect ," he sought to " make a building look traditional and as though it had fought its way from a small, unimportant structure to a great, rambling house.

Rejecting the offer of a new contract from Celtic, he joined Manchester United in 2004 on a free transfer under the Bosman ruling.

Rejecting the temptation of great rewards, he conveyed his prisoner to the American camp and, by this noble act of self-denial, the treason of Arnold was detected ; the designs of the enemy baffled ; West Point and the American Army saved ; and these United States, now by the grace of God Free and Independent, rescued from most imminent peril.

Rejecting the common notions of his time that the use of breathing is to cool the heart, or assist the passage of the blood from the right to the left side of the heart, or merely to agitate it, Mayow saw in inspiration a mechanism for introducing oxygen into the body, where it is consumed for the production of heat and muscular activity.

Rejecting both imitation and protest, Showalter advocated approaching feminist criticism from a cultural perspective in the current Female phase, rather than from perspectives that traditionally come from an androcentric perspective like psychoanalytic and biological theories, for example.

Rejecting Mr. Byford's requests for the pension caused significant discontent among people who remember his work from their childhood.

* The Mosaic Tradition and the Consequences Of Rejecting it-excerpt from The Five Books of Moses by Allis

Rejecting a new contract, the player became available on a free transfer in the summer as he was out contract, he drew attention from Norwich City and Burnley, before signing for Coventry City in the summer.

Rejecting Cubism as irrational and " romantic ," the pair jointly published their manifesto, Après le cubisme and established a new artistic movement, Purism.

Rejecting the up-tempo dance of ska, the band slowed their music to a rocksteady pace, and infused their lyrics with political and social messages inspired by their new found faith.

Rejecting reactionary conservatism, he proposed a new state, a ' Third Reich ' which would unite all classes under authoritarian rule based on a combination of the nationalism of the right and the socialism of the left.

" Rejecting the idea of a natural basis to sexual difference allows us to see that it is always susceptible to new interpretations.

Rejecting the artwork used for the single in Europe, Mushroom commissioned a new photoshoot so that the single cover would feature Manson's image ( this was a first for Garbage, who had never appeared on the covers of their singles or albums before ).

Rejecting the pleas of his aides that he take cover, Trudeau stayed in his seat, facing the rioters, without any sign of fear.

Rejecting the pleas of his aides that he take cover, Trudeau stayed in his seat, facing the rioters, without any sign of fear.

Rejecting support either for the West or for the East, Vanuatu joined the Non-Aligned Movement in 1983, and only established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and the United States in June and September 1986, respectively.

" Rejecting the East and West coast life styles that most scientists preferred, they selected a Chicago suburb.

Rejecting what they believed as a Greek philosophy ( immortality of the soul ), they taught that though man was created for immortality, that immortality had been forfeited in the fall of Adam.

Rejecting the offer to rejoin the Avengers or her family, Wanda departs stating that after years of defining herself as Magneto's daughter, Pietro's sister, or the Vision's wife, she wants to find out who she is on her own before she decides what to do with her life.

Rejecting his father's wishes that he become a surgeon, in 1945 Foucault traveled to the French capital of Paris, where he enrolled in one of the country's most prestigious secondary schools, which was also known as the Lycée Henri-IV.

" Rejecting bail was a way to lessen the huge financial burden which civil rights groups were facing as the sit-in movement spread across the South.

Rejecting an early ambition to work as a physicist after " establishing that there was no money in it ", Mosley went on to study law at Gray's Inn in London, specialising in patent and trademark law, and qualified as a barrister in 1964.

Rejecting denominations, he established his own itinerant evangelistic ministry, which preached the ideas of the holiness movement and was well received by the people of Kansas.

Rejecting the assumption that human history is driven by coercive power, Yoder argued that it was rather God — working in, with, and through the nonviolent, non-resistant community of disciples of Jesus — who has been the ultimate force in human affairs.

Rejecting a military career for himself he chose academia and was appointed as a Lecturer in Public Administration at the London School of Economics in 1906 ; he remained there throughout his political career.

Rejecting criticism that he was a ' Hindu hater ', Witzel said, " I hate people who misrepresent history.

Rejecting the military's argument that prohibiting homosexual conduct was needed to maintain unit cohesion, he wrote, It is hard to imagine why the mere holding of hands off base and in private is dangerous to the mission of the armed forces if done by a homosexual but not if done by a heterosexual.

Rejecting mass production that was beginning to be introduced by industry at that time, the Arts and Crafts movement, closely related to Tudorbethan, drew on simple design inherent in aspects of its more ancient styles, Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean.

Rejecting the Healer's request, Callisto was attacked by the Morlocks and both she and the Healer were injured in the battle.

* Rejecting writing that appears to be plagiarized, ghost-written by another sub-editor, previously published elsewhere, or simply of insufficient interest to the readers of the journal ;

Rejecting Mao's idealistic, communitarian values but not necessarily the values of Marx and Lenin, Deng emphasized that socialism did not mean shared poverty ( thus repudiating the Gang of Four's slogan " We would rather be poor under socialism than rich under capitalism.

Rejecting the dishonesty he sees as tied up in the world of business, he is secretly in love with Lisa Rosenberg, daughter of the owner of a rival ( failing ) factory, who is engaged to be married to Ben Zion's coarse older brother.

Rejecting his photorealistic roots, his works tended to be abstract, consisting of a revolutionary house paint called Sateen Dura-Luxe on canvas as the background, topped with colored tape.

Rejecting a stand in the crumbling town of Piacenza, Gages ordered ditches and artillery emplacements to be dug which would become a defensive line that the Austrians would have to attack.