The framers' decisive rejection of parliamentary government is one reason they caused the phrase "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors" to appear in the Constitution itself.

Interestingly, the results lead to a decisive rejection of a functionalist hypothesis; deletion rates are affected very little by the presence or absence of disambiguating information in the surface string.

There was a robust campaign against these proposals by the Gibraltarian government and individuals, culminating in their decisive rejection in a referendum.

His achievement of only 7 per cent of the vote was widely seen as a decisive rejection of his racially oriented campaign.

She needed to show a decisive rejection of what he had said, not just a desire to run from it.

But there was a decisive rejection of the idea that a constitutional amendment should prohibit all abortions.

Delays in the announcing of results made the final results unclear, but the trend indicated a decisive rejection of President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

France is still reeling from its voters' decisive rejection of a constitution for Europe that was also considered a sweeping rejection of the French government and its policies.

But there is no need to look to 'crackpot messiahs' or fundamentalist theocracies to find a decisive religious rejection of Fukuyama's reading of human history.

It marked a decisive rejection of Marxist totalitarianism, which it described in entirely negative terms, something the previous generation of French thinkers, dominated by leftist sentiment, had been loath to do.