(v. t.) To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
(v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
(v. t.) To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(2) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
(3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(4) These results suggest that prevention of xenograft rejection using PAF-antagonist in association with other methods should be further investigated.
(5) Clinical diagnosis of rejection was made independently of immunological results.
(6) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(7) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
(8) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(9) The diagnosis of acute infectious enterocolitis was rejected.
(10) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
(11) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(12) A study was conducted to assess the suppression of segmental pancreatic allograft rejection by cyclosporine (CSA) alone in baboons and dogs, and subtotal marrow irradiation (TL1) alone and TL 1 in combination with CSA in baboons.
(13) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(14) The correlations between the objective risk estimates and the subjective risk estimates were low overall (r = 0.089, p = 0.08); for women rejecting (r = 0.024, p = 0.44) or accepting (r = 0.082, p = 0.12) amniocentesis.
(15) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
(16) The value of D was found to correlate significantly with age, with the upper rejection limit (5% level) increasingly elevated from 4.8 mm at 20 years to 7.5 mm at 80 years.
(17) Ninety-two percent of the patients were not reactive to dinitrochlorobenzene after sensitization; skin allograft rejection occurred in an average of 17 days.
(18) Acquired renal cysts developed even in grafts undergoing chronic rejection, and increased numbers were found in native kidneys that were in uremic conditions for long periods, both before and after renal transplantation.
(19) In most cases, there were both quantitative and morphological differences between the infiltrates in acute rejection and in the remaining perivascular infiltrates after treatment.
(20) Additionally, it appears effective as a prophylactic treatment against acute renal and cardiac rejection in the immediate post-transplantation period.
Renounce
Definition:
(v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
(v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
(v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
(v. i.) To make renunciation.
(v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
(n.) Act of renouncing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) He renounced his Australian citizenship , returned his passport and Medicare card to the Australian Commonwealth, and sent his driver’s licence back to the chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory, where he then lived.
(3) Despite having taken vows renouncing concern for physical pain or comfort, respondents differed markedly in their attitudes toward pain and their rationale for utilizing medical treatment.
(4) The man who renounced Australia Read more It was “not so much a defence to the charges [but] a negotiating point or olive branch” held out to the commonwealth to instigate discussion towards a treaty and formal consent for its occupation of the land, he said.
(5) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
(6) The strategic alliance between the stances is continuing and will continue.” Responding to the remarks in the Atlantic late on Tuesday night, Israel’s far-right economics minister, Naftali Bennett, used his Facebook page to call for Washington to renounce the comments: “If what was written [in The Atlantic] is true, then it appears the current administration plans to throw Israel under the bus.
(7) Payouts require claimants to renounce their right to sue the church and state authorities.
(8) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
(9) Later, prisoners suffered even worse mistreatment in an attempt to force them to renounce their allegiance to the insurgency and to obey commands.
(10) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
(11) Daniel Radcliffe: renounced his support for Lib Dems.
(12) "I was then offered £5,000 to renounce the right of my wife to succeed me in the tenancy, which I did accept.
(13) If a Muslim candidate did not renounce such aspects of his or her faith, Carson said, “Why in fact would you take that chance?” Referring to criticism of his remark last weekend to NBC that he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president, Carson said: “I said anybody, doesn’t matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our constitution, I have no problem with them.” Article VI of the US constitution states: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The first amendment to the constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …” Carson is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
(14) 48.5% of respondents share the misperception that transmission from mother to fetus always happens, and 70% think that women who are HIV carriers should renounce pregnancy: willingness to support mandatory screening for pregnant women is significantly higher among individuals who share these two beliefs.
(15) Abbas is under considerable pressure from Israel, the US and Britain in particular to renounce the option for the Palestinian Authority to accede to the ICC.
(16) Reforms saw the MP Zac Goldsmith and peer Swraj Paul renounce their non-dom status to hold on to their seats.
(17) There is a hint he will sign up with Pasok, but he has already told the two main parties they must renounce all their previous negotiations in Brussels before he will sit down with them.
(18) March 1995 The preacher issues a fatwa saying it is justified to both kill Muslims who renounce their faith and kill their families.
(19) I wouldn’t hesitate in renouncing my Britishness , it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
(20) Experiences from history and presence make it clear that the sensitiveness for these problems must be a never renounced and a constant concern of all anthropologists and human genetists.