1.   Decisions to retain or reject an hypothesis are fairly straightforwardly determined by the results of experimental tests.

2.   The authors reject the hypothesis about unemployment contributing to crime.

3.   Other chemists rejected his hypothesis.

4.   When a complete spanning hypothesis has been found, competing hypotheses are rejected if they fall below a certain threshold relative to the spanning theory.

5.   Processing stops when all hypotheses have been rejected, or when time or space limits are reached.

6.   But two economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Lucy Ackert and George Athanassakos, recently wrote a working paper that rejected this hypothesis.

7.   The last reason to reject a hypothesis is because it defies narrow conceptions of common sense.

8.   However Alberto Fantino, who headed the work, rejected the hypothesis saying that none of the electrical equipment on the site posed any kind of fire hazard.

9.   She also rejected the hypothesis that the killing was the isolated act of a religious fanatic.