1.   But consumer groups, which have insisted that genetically modified foods should be labelled as such, rejected the plan.

2.   Lanier rejected the plan after Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander said he would have no part of it.

3.   The finance committee rejected their plan because they said it was too costly.

4.   The plan was rejected on the grounds that it would cost too much money.

5.   The plan was decisively rejected by Congress three weeks ago.

6.   The plan was rejected as too extreme.

7.   The ANC rejected the plans as being specifically designed to deny power to the black majority.

8.   Opposition groups meeting in Damascus in late December rejected a plan to overthrow the government, saying that it needed redrafting to ensure comprehensive acceptance by all parties.

9.   Predictably, the plan was rejected by the chief Israeli negotiator Elyakin Rubinstein, who described it as a plan for a Palestinian state in all but name.