#rejected

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#conference #delegates #equality #i #japan

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. ↗

— Edmund White

#being #felt #hurt #i #life

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column. ↗

— Bob Novak

#column #nobody #officially #rejected

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#bullets #country #down #everyone #fact

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#armed #because #christian #committed #here

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#even #her #i #i do #legal

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#back #constitutional #effective #europe #force

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#i #life #notion #race #rejected

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine