Sentence examples for be spurned because of from inspiring English sources

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Florentino Perez, the man who relieved him of his duties today, claims to have offered the 55-year-old the job in 2009, only to be spurned because of the affection he had for Liverpool.

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That included clothing brands being spurned because of a reputation for running sweat-shops, multinational shops avoided by anti-globalisation protestors and chains of petrol stations being by-passed by drivers concerned about human rights and environmental violations by oil companies.

The other country, meanwhile, is spurned because it forges alliances with America's enemies.

She recalled when U.N.C.-Charlotte might have been able to join the Big East in 2005 but was spurned because it did not play football.

His initial overtures to her were spurned because she had a boyfriend at the time but he persisted and they were married within 18 months.

We're not saying the supermarkets are forces of evil to be spurned.

Stinginess should be spurned.

Paperwork was spurned in favour of action; planting, advising, training thousands.

A week ago, over-ambition was blamed as kickable penalties were spurned in search of tries in the 20-14 defeat by Australia.

For years new power facilities that relied on coal were spurned in favor of natural gas, as American electric companies were wooed by the cleaner-burning fossil fuel and its easier-to-site and cheaper-to-build power plants.

In it, McCormack argues against the established view of George Eliot as both spurning and having been spurned by polite society on account of her cohabitation with George Henry Lewes.

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