1.   I sent it back with a polite rejection.

2.   So the WTO got mostly polite rejections.

3.   That was a polite rejection.

4.   The consensus seems to be that the Big Ten would make a move toward Syracuse, but the likeliest result right now would be another polite rejection.

5.   Bush wrote the column at the request of Drum editor Arthur Milnes, who expected to receive little more than a polite rejection.

6.   On Monday, when journalists shouted questions at him across a wall of bodyguards, Suharto smiled and raised his hand in a gesture of polite rejection.