Sentence examples for a rebuff from inspiring English sources

It lost the seat a year ago in a rebuff to the Bush administration for the disregard it seemed to show toward international organizations.

It was an invitation for a rebuff, which duly came.

Ms Göring-Eckardt's selection was a rebuff to Claudia Roth, a flamboyant leftist.

"This is a rebuff to all those who believed the reward was being revoked".

I went anyway, and instead of a rebuff got an invitation to sit down.

When idiots like Green speak, I'm thrilled because it clears column inches for a rebuff.

It is also replete with private-equity money (much of it on the rebound after a rebuff from China).

The vote was a rebuff to Evo Morales, the country's socialist president, and his plan for a new constitution.

Following a rebuff in the elections of 1922 by Earle Page's Country Party, he slipped from the centre of power.

His victory was unexpected; it came as a rebuff to the political left and its candidate, Henri Brisson.

There, a prickly instability, characteristic of his childhood, re-emerged, perhaps brought on by a rebuff from his landlady's daughter.