11.   Despite the threatened sanctions, the school board has vowed to reject any attempt to resuscitate Belmont.

12.   Federal regulators have rejected attempts by Duke Energy Inc. to avoid refunding millions of dollars to California for charging exorbitant electricity prices in January and February.

13.   Former Hopi Chairman Ferrell Secakuku said Hopi beliefs required them to reject Navajo attempts to buy the disputed land.

14.   George Washington understood that when he rejected repeated attempts to keep him in office indefinitely.

15.   He said the trial was fair, and he rejected any attempt to pin blame on the United States.

16.   I reject attempts to measure everything by a specific West German view of history.

17.   In the most extraordinary move, he rejected an attempt by Arafat to address the conference live from Ramallah.

18.   Israel has long rejected any attempt to link the Golan Heights to the situation in south Lebanon.

19.   Iraq has floated similar ideas before, but the United Nations and the United States have rejected any attempts to impose conditions on the weapons inspectors.

20.   Later in the day, in a related vote, they also rejected an attempt to deny cash benefits to teen-agers who have children out of wedlock.