Example sentences of "for rejecting " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continental gives several reasons for rejecting Pirelli 's advances . |
| 2 | Locke 's motives for rejecting them , accordingly , vary from case to case . |
| 3 | However , I think that his main reason for rejecting the possibility is that he could not imagine a process whereby it could happen . |
| 4 | The argument showing that no moral ideal of the good will be chosen as a principle of justice in the original position is the argument that Rawls uses for rejecting perfectionist principles : |
| 5 | These were adopted without dissent , but at the seventh paragraph , which gave reasons for rejecting Pennethorne 's scheme , Tite proposed an amendment . |
| 6 | We give here the main reasons for doubting the validity of Urquhart 's population dose estimates , and for rejecting the conclusions of the accompanying contribution ‘ Looking for an increase in deaths from cancer ’ ( pB74 ) . |
| 7 | The basis for rejecting science is very like carelessness . |
| 8 | So what of the other reasons for rejecting citation analysis as a help in deciding where the money should go ? |
| 9 | However , the fundamental reason for rejecting the weapons in Britain or elsewhere in Europe lies in a flaw at the heart of NATO 's deterrent strategy . |
| 10 | Miss Haywood , 32 , claims she was sacked from her £9,000-a-year job in January for rejecting Mr Pointer . |
| 11 | It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings . |
| 12 | The observables , the exotic items of gold , amber , shell , garnet , pottery ( and perhaps what it contained , for instance wine ) , glass , mercury , ivory , may give us a distorted image of the nature of exchange , but there is no reason for rejecting the acceptance of the pattern at face-value . |
| 13 | His blackness he now regards as a personal stabilizer rather than a means for rejecting society . |
| 14 | But an example like this clearly reveals the artificiality of such an analysis of what we mean when we say we see , and we have already considered the grounds for rejecting such theories in accounting for capacities like remembering , and emotions such as grief or anger . |
| 15 | Another reason for rejecting this causal theory of meaning is that when one asks what is meant by a statement one is normally concerned to know what a reasonable speaker is saying in uttering it . |
| 16 | But of itself this does not provide grounds for rejecting Marxism , since its chief theoretical claim is precisely to explain power-relations and forms of conflict such as those denoted by the terms ‘ nation ’ , ‘ gender ’ and ‘ race ’ in terms of the forces and relations of production . |
| 17 | And the central reasons for rejecting the ‘ humanist ’ paradigm of the self — as I have outlined it above — are , firstly , that there may be aspects of the development of self which are not easily accessible to consciousness , and secondly , that there are conscious experiences which are not easy to make intelligible within the humanist paradigm . |
| 18 | Nor could we expect the adherents of each approach to treat any anomaly as a reason for rejecting it . |
| 19 | If a request is made to obtain evidence abroad for use in what are clearly civil proceedings , is it a sufficient ground for rejecting the request that there is a possibility that the evidence might subsequently be used in the requesting country in a criminal matter ? |
| 20 | When one reads a Paracelsian recipe for an amulet to ward off the plague , when one learns that the prime ingredient is a paste requiring eighteen dried toads , one could be forgiven for rejecting continuity between magic and science . |
| 21 | Laslett in turn has been challenged for ignoring the effects of the life-cycle in altering family size through generations , for by-passing evidence which suggests that other kin lived with the conjugal unit , and for rejecting changing ideologies of the family . |
| 22 | There are therefore sound reasons for rejecting any crude equation of democracy with an unqualified principle of majority rule . |
| 23 | Since we are going to discover other reasons for rejecting the tripartite definition , we have no reason to pursue this point here . |
| 24 | In this chapter I shall give reasons for rejecting this approach , or if not for rejecting it then for supposing that the questions it raises can never be answered and so that it leads directly to scepticism . |
| 25 | In this chapter I shall give reasons for rejecting this approach , or if not for rejecting it then for supposing that the questions it raises can never be answered and so that it leads directly to scepticism . |
| 26 | I shall offer in chapter 7 a reason for rejecting all forms of foundationalism . |
| 27 | I have some hesitation in accepting the judge 's second ground for rejecting the defendants ' argument based on section 222 . |
| 28 | The clerk to the committee wrote to both parents on the same day giving the committee 's grounds for rejecting the appeals . |
| 29 | I respectfully agree with his reasons for rejecting the plaintiffs ' claim for the inspection of documents and disclosure of information before trial based upon section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , upon the alleged proprietary claim and upon waiver . |
| 30 | The Lord President ( Lord Clyde ) stated two reasons for rejecting the argument . |