1.   In those halcyon days, his loping gait often resulted in resounding dunks and emphatic rejections.

2.   That notion brought an emphatic rejection from the administration on Thursday.

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

4.   The demonstrations were an emphatic rejection of a proposal by Habibie to grant special status to East Timor.

5.   The remarks by Berisha and other opposition figures constituted an emphatic rejection of appeals from several European organizations the previous day.