Pointedly rejecting his offer of assistance, she raised herself from the floor.

It pointedly rejected the Liberal Party's path of patronage.

President Obama pointedly rejected her description the next day.

"67 Julian would agree with the Buddhist teacher who pointedly rejects the usual Christian view of death as, in Paul's words, the "last enemy.

But when he announced "I am a spokesman for myself" - pointedly rejecting the role of generational mouthpiece - he wasn't being flip.

He says he does not believe that the Bible permits such unions, but he pointedly rejects a government ban on them.

The committee pointedly rejected universal cholesterol testing for children.

Railing against his diminishing importance, the Cuban leader pointedly rejected any suggestion that he would voluntarily relax his rule in return for outside aid.

Indeed, he pointedly rejects scientific explanations.

Except when they are pointedly rejecting the formal customs of their country, the new Japanese writers shun traditional styles and polite language in their stories.