| Bacon, Galileo and Descartes rejected the preternatural je ne sais quoi in favour of a scientific examination of nature. |
| Plans can be rejected if found to be not in accord with this process and regional heads face sanctions depending on the severity of the mistake. |
| He was rejected and outcast, and like Job, accepted his suffering and abandonment. |
| Many times, he told me, reformers rejected a compromise as a bridge too far. |
| Nietzsche began as a disciple of Schopenhauer, but later rejected his pessimism and quietism. |
| Indeed, he commended the Quakers, who rejected the sacraments, for their stress on God as Spirit. |
