Several of his submissions were rejected by publishers.

他的好几次投稿都被出版商拒绝了。

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Despite 11 penning a few humor columns for the school paper, he was subsequently rejected from a creative-writing class because of what he was told were weak sample submissions.

虽然他曾为校刊撰写过一些幽默专栏，但后来报读一个创意写作班时却被拒之门外，得到的解释是，他提交的作品样本较为逊色。

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Since April 2010, the Department had rejected half of the 171 submissions for money it had received from trusts.

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Mr Gove added that he wanted to ensure only the best free school applications were approved telling MPs that more than 200 submissions had been rejected so far.

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The tribunal's new presiding judge rejected the calls for retrial, but agreed to have the two legal teams make their final submissions again.

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