7 sentences with 'reject'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reject and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, many historians reject the idea of the gunpowder "revolution" altogether because it took more than a century, from the 15th century well into the 16th century, for it to actually materialise. »
• « Many Protestants interpreted his message as an indication that true Christians were accountable only to the Bible and could therefore also reject the existing social hierarchy. »
• « Likewise, many princes realised that Protestantism often caused political problems in their territories; although many of the German princes had originally supported Luther to protect their own political independence, many others realised that the last thing they wanted were independent-minded denominations in their territories, some of which might reject their worldly authority altogether (as did the German peasants who rose up in 1524). »
• « Parliament's traditional right was to approve or reject taxes, but an open question in the early 17th century was whether it also had the right to make laws. »
• « Historians now tend to reject the idea that the Enlightenment was a single, self-conscious movement of thinkers, but they still (usually) accept that there were innovative new themes of thought to be found in much of the philosophical, literary and technical writing of the period. »
• « Kautsky, the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who had written most of its theoretical manifestos, continued to insist that the real function of the party was to reject parliamentary alliances and agitate for revolution. »
• « Left thinkers came to reject both the obvious injustices of Soviet-style communism and the injustices of their own capitalist societies. »