Sentences with phrase «rejected out of hand»

The caller had made an offer on a house, which she claimed was rejected out of hand.

By that standard, almost every study published in the premier journals Child Development and Developmental Psychology would be rejected out of hand.

At best, your lies will be obvious and your CV will be rejected out of hand.

President Donald Trump said repeatedly Friday that he favored arming teachers to protect students, an idea many educators rejected out of hand.

This is a recommendation by the committee which the government has rejected out of hand.

He stated that the proposal should be rejected out of hand, in part because the Commission had taken an «intellectually dishonest approach, hoping we would not notice the real purpose of the Regulatory Objectives is to be a stalking horse for non-lawyers practicing law, non-lawyers owning law firms and multi-disciplinary practices.»

It should be rejected out of hand by any serious person taking an objective look at these issues — as should FirstEnergy's request for a bailout.

Models should not be accepted or rejected out of hand.

These are rejected out of hand as «contaminated samples.»

Too many reasonable possibilities are being rejected out of hand on the basis of limited information.

When I've read such comments, I haven't usually read them to mean that one should not research something for themselves, but that expert opinion has value and as such should not be rejected out of hand.

That's not say they have rejected it out of hand, its just possible that they may be on to something fundamentally new, but its probably more likely that there is some systematic error in their results which they have overlooked.

The power of Steve's suggestion to write a joint article with Ammann is that it demonstrates exactly this effort to create common ground — that it appears to have been rejected out of hand speaks volumes.

But, as independent film makers I have spoken to testify, proposals for programmes which expressed concern about the environment were rejected out of hand.

Maybe he already tried and was rejected out of hand.

The next failure to compromise came in the fight over adding a «safety valve» provision to limit unanticipated high costs from greenhouse gas restrictions, something Joe Romm and many others rejected out of hand at the time, even though Romm last year (around minute 37 in this videotaped panel discussion) noted the need for pragmatism to get things started: «The game changer for the world isn't between no price for carbon and a high price.

Shared multiple lines of credible solid info here on RC before, as usual was ignored rejected out of hand.

Does that mean ALL drivers that get their licenses from overseas are automatically rejected out of hand?

Once I figured out what the overlying subject matter was (something I would've rejected out of hand), it was too late.

Winfrey's inspiring Golden Globes speech has many wondering if she'll run in 2020 — a notion that shouldn't be rejected out of hand

Who could complain about the extra work and breakneck pace when the alternative of having the movie nixed or rejected out of hand was so much worse?

This takes the sting out of approaching a person who takes your fancy in a bar only to be rejected out of hand because of a misunderstanding or communication problem.

And he's made «Coalition» a subject not to be feared or rejected out of hand, but seriously acceptable.

The increase, well above inflation, is likely to be condemned as unacceptable by David Cameron and rejected out of hand by Ed Miliband.

This was rejected out of hand by Brown on the basis that acknowledging the scale of cuts would cede vital political territory to the Tories who would say that Labour had accepted their critique.

Mercury Newspaper and the South London press also offered to take over Greenwich Time as a going concern, but were rejected out of hand by the council.

In a statement to MPs after abandoning plans to reform the Lords last month, the deputy prime minister also rejected out of hand modest changes to the upper house proposed by the former Liberal leader Lord Steel of Aikwood.

And three big requests were rejected out of hand (as expected)-- eliminating flavored milk, instituting salad bars and getting rid of a la carte sales.

Three big requests were rejected out of hand (as expected): eliminating flavored milk, instituting salad bars and getting rid of a la carte sales — and much work needs to be done to improve HISD's middle and high school menu.

«There were a number of clubs interested in buying Januzaj, but all those offers were rejected out of hand,» a United source told the Daily Mirror, «We had no interest in selling a player who will be a big part of United's future.

Realizing that such an award would be rejected out of hand by a judge, Sparks moderated her demand, and Payton agreed to contribute $ 5,550 a month in child support, establish a $ 175,000 college trust fund and purchase a $ 1 million life insurance policy naming the child as beneficiary.

This analogy is less likely to be rejected out of hand.

«The Germans had proposed the Concordat,» he reminds us, and for the Vatican «to have rejected it out of hand would have been prejudicial to the rights of Catholics in Germany.»

The concept of operation and becoming as self - transcendence gives no warrant for causally linking anything with everything, and negative statements such as «This can not produce that», or, «From this that can not come», are not to be rejected out of hand as meaningless.

I also got somewhat upset when he rejected out of hand the idea that Moses was writing a polemic against the religions of his day.

I'm sorry if I went on at quite a length at this, but I hope I impressed that this is a serious and deep issue in the understanding of the nature of God, some might not be in any position to accept it as true, but it is not to be rejected out of hand as a silly or tricky little thing that people are foolish for falling into believing.

Of course, any suggestion that children should be cloned for directly instrumental purposes, such as organ harvesting or providing the military with more soldiers or a basketball team with more talented players, should be rejected out of hand.

Calvin rejected out of hand the possibility (which Thomas allowed) of a valid natural theology.

Indeed, Mr. Agrawal, who actively solicits feedback about improving CDL, hardly seems satisfied; he rejected out of hand recent suggestions CDL throw a party to celebrate its alumni hitting the $ 1 - billion value creation mark in value.

Your background and experience in a variety of asset classes appear to have given you an open minded perspective toward unconventional asset classes and conditioned you to approach them with intelligent curiosity rather than rejecting them out of hand.

And people would reject it out of hand, not even checking.

Nor can one reject out of hand her arguments concerning the historical truth of women's oppression.

Or are you just rejecting it out of hand as «hocum» because it doesn't fit your patriarchal worldview?

I say «reasoned justification» because it is clearly inappropriate to reject out of hand all claims to systematic understanding of reality.

Finally, Hume was brave enough to reject them out of hand.

We would reject out of hand anyone who denounced us as Jesus denounced his contemporaries.

In 60 paragraphs arranged across four succinct chapters, the Pope treats what he evidently considers the fundamental question of our times: how the believer can render an account for faith in a world that considers it little more than mere sentiment, and which rejects out of hand the very notion of universals.

If the appeal to revelation is designed to protect certain ideas from criticism, then Whitehead rejects it out of hand.

Paulson finally made a counteroffer that he was certain the emissaries would reject out of hand, $ 9 million for half the horse.

The tension inherent in the Tea Parties is that politics requires compromise, but that every compromise is a step down the road to being «just another politician» — something that Tea Partiers would seem to reject out of hand.