1.   The company rejected these charges and they were later withdrawn.

2.   He firmly rejected the charge of conservatism, which he said derived from his uncompromising stand on genuine socialism.

3.   They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment.

4.   In a television interview earlier yesterday Mr Shevardnadze angrily rejected charges from Gen Grachev that Georgia was waging war against its own people.

5.   The election watchdog commission rejected the charges.

6.   And at the statehouse, a legislative ethics committee rejected charges of ethics violations against acting governor Donald DiFrancesco.

7.   An administrative judge has rejected charges of fraud and negligence leveled against Gladstone physician Edward McDonagh over his use of a treatment known as chelation.

8.   Benardello rejects such charges.

9.   A Quaker State executive rejected those charges.