Sentence examples for abruptly rejected from inspiring English sources

Mr Abhisit abruptly rejected the plan and said that a parliamentary dissolution would not solve Thailand's political crisis.

Mr. Karzai came close last month to disrupting the latest American move to jump-start talks with the Taliban when he abruptly rejected a plan for the Persian Gulf state of Qatar to host an insurgent negotiating office.

In February, seeking to shore up his reputation as an international statesman, Mr. Nazarbayev abruptly rejected the idea of a referendum that would have granted him the presidency until 2020.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Sebastián Piñera, Chile's president, abruptly rejected calls on Sunday from the Roman Catholic Church to pardon dozens of imprisoned military officials convicted of human rights violations during the era known as Chile's dirty war.

The deal bears a striking resemblance to one Egypt's military rulers negotiated, and abruptly rejected, last spring, citing concerns that it would saddle future governments with such a large debt that it would amount to a violation of Egyptian sovereignty.

Murakami's winning gamesomeness is on show again in this story of a lonely boy whose four colour-coded childhood friends (their names in Japanese mean "red pine", "blue sea", "white root" and "black field") abruptly rejected him.

The first signs that he is untrainable come when an imperious dog trainer (Kathleen Turner) abruptly rejects him after he refuses to obey, and a potentially uproarious comic encounter between human and beast is thrown away.

Culturally, it is also plausible that respondents might instinctively have been more likely to reject abruptly phrased negative statements.

MONTHS of speculation that President Olusegun Obasanjo might get the constitution changed to let himself run again for a third term of office ended abruptly this week when a proposed amendment was rejected by the Senate.

Lawyers for Cesar Rodriguez, accused of murdering his 7-year-old stepdaughter, Nixzmary Brown, abruptly rested their case on Tuesday after the judge rejected their attempts to undo the damage caused last week by one of their own witnesses.

Union officials, she said, have abruptly canceled many meetings during negotiations, which began in May 1998, and have rejected the city's offer of a contract equal to those of other city workers, including the police, fire and sanitation departments.