Given the public's emphatic rejection of the plans to sell off our forests, you might have thought the government would tread more carefully with its reforms to the planning system.

That notion brought an emphatic rejection from the Administration today.

The disposition of Michael Oher's application to Briarcrest was Steve Simpson's decision, and normally he would have had no trouble making it: an emphatic rejection.

This embrace included an emphatic rejection of denial or minimization of the Holocaust.

He said the court had written "an emphatic rejection" of the proposed regulations, and that the case would be "extraordinarily difficult to appeal."

Romania's 'military deviation' and her emphatic rejection of coalition warfare in preference to a doctrine of 'national defence'puts her reliability very much in doubt.

Amityville school officials attribute the emphatic rejection of the budget largely to frustration over an increase in unrelated county taxes that preceded the school vote.

Olivier cast one wondering glance at him, shook his head in emphatic rejection, and reached for his horse's bridle.

The euphoria which this announcement triggered throughout the world contrasts strangely with the emphatic rejection triggered by the release of genetically-modified plants, especially in Europe.

However, UFPJ had sponsored protests outside the Democratic National Convention in July, 2004, calling for an "emphatic rejection of the Democratic 'leadership' that supported the war."