Rejecting Descartes ' solution, Pierre de Fermat arrived at the same solution based solely on his principle of least time.

Rejecting a career in the sciences, he instead travelled to the Northern Territory to take up work with the Aboriginal land rights activist, Vincent Lingiari and the Gurindji at Wave Hill.

Rejecting any form of permanent settlement of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon at the expense of their right of return.

Rejecting large numbers of volunteers, he made no attempt to contact any of the other domains for support, and no troops were left at Kagoshima to secure his base against an attack.

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 the cancellation, the British government espoused the claim on behalf of APOC and brought the dispute before the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague, asserting that it regarded itself " as entitled to take all such measures as the situation may demand for the Company's protection.

Rejecting the opportunity of an international trial game at Methil, Gallacher made his Queen of the South debut aged 17 against St Cuthbert Wanderers on 29 January 1921.

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 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 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 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 may seem strange to those more familiar with classical logic, but proving this statement in constructive logic would require producing a proof for the truth or falsity of all possible statements, which is impossible for a variety of reasons.

Rejecting Grundy's request for funds to tool up for 1967 models, Studebaker left the automobile business on March 16, 1966 after an announcement on March 4.

Rejecting the doctrine of the millenarian sects, Lightfoot had various practical suggestions for the repression of current " blasphemies ", for a thorough revision of the authorized version of the Scriptures, for the encouragement of a learned ministry, and for a speedy settlement of the church.

Rejecting the request, Enryaku-ji received crime-related money for the ceremony and allowed nearly 100 upper-level Yamaguchi-gumi leaders attend.

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 O ' Brien's initiatives, the Redmond-Dillon-Devlin hardline alliance remained uncompromising – " no concessions for Ulster ".

Rejecting the typical French assimilationist approach to culture and education as a liberal fantasy, Morocco's conservative French rulers attempted to use urban planning and colonial education to prevent cultural mixing and to uphold the traditional society upon which the French depended for collaboration.

Rejecting the emigrant detachment strategy for internal propaganda, Levski undertook his first tour of the Bulgarian lands to engage all layers of Bulgarian society for a successful revolution.

* Rejecting the adjudicated innocence of David Rosen, who served as campaign finance director for Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign for the U. S. Senate and had been indicted for filing false reports.

" 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 UN supervision, the Indonesian government under Suharto decided to settle the question of West Irian, the former Dutch New Guinea, in their favor.

According to a New York Times article, “ More Americans Rejecting Marriage in 50s and Beyond ”, in the past 20 years, the divorce rate has increased over 50 % amongst the baby boomers.

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

Rejecting many of the established features of the novel to date, Robbe-Grillet regarded many earlier novelists as old-fashioned in their focus on plot, action, narrative, ideas, and character.

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 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 the substantial existence of permanent entities which are qualified by possibly changing qualities, Buddhist Abhidharma philosophers enumerated lists of dharmas which varied by school.

Rejecting the common Chinese surname of " Li " ( given to the Xixia by the Tang Dynasty court ) and " Zhao " ( given to the Xixia by the Song Dynasty court ) he adopted the Tangut surname " Weiming " ( 嵬名 ).

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 the inevitability of a " clash of civilizations ," AJC has instead insisted on the possibility of a " community of civilizations " by encouraging dialogue on the highest levels with like-minded groups committed to fostering tolerance and cooperation.

Rejecting Christianity and developing an interest in western esotericism, he read several books on Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky, namely Isis Unveiled, and wanting to explore the topic further, he also read the works of prominent occultists Cornelius Agrippa and Eliphas Levi.

Rejecting the nativist account of language acquisition proposed by Noam Chomsky, Bruner offered an alternative in the form of an interactionist or social interactionist theory of language development.

Rejecting proposals by General William Westmoreland that U. S. ground forces advance into Laos and cut communist supply lines, Johnson gathered a group of elder statesmen called The Wise Men.

" ( 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 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 as superficial the spontaneous, painterly technique of such artists as Manet and Hals — and also of Henri and his followers among The Eight — he turned instead to the underpainting and glazing method used by old masters such as Andrea Mantegna.

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 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 the view that Congress had limited the executive's authority to seize property in this case by providing for different procedures in the legislation it had enacted, Vinson's opinion nonetheless appeared to recognize Congress ' primacy in enacting legislation, justifying the seizure in this case as necessary to preserve the status quo so that Congress could act in the future, but mocking arguments based on the Constitution's provision allowing the President to recommend legislation, rather than to make it himself, as " the messenger-boy concept of the Office ".

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.

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

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