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Meanwhile the provincial government, having been spurned in a takeover bid for the local arm of CEA, has retaliated by removing preferential tax breaks.

…creditors Having been spurned in a popular vote they would face one fateful choice above all others: do they cut off emergency funding for the Greek banking system and precipitate a full-blown financial meltdown on their door step?

A day later the six-foot-four Ebbers returned fire at the conference, painting Seidenberg, who stands a good half-foot shorter, as the one who had been spurned in a courtship gone sour.

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Now Hull's main companies make health-care products, food and chemicals, which are essential enough not to be spurned in a downturn.

Bersani, 61, had been trying to form a government since the end of February, but had spurned Berlusconi's offer of a grand coalition and been spurned in turn by the newly powerful Five Star Movement led by erstwhile comedian Beppe Grillo.

MCI's board rejected a 15% higher offer of $9.8 billion from Qwest the fourth time that a bid from Qwest had been spurned in three months.

Underwood, having been spurned in his bid to become secretary of state, is on a quest for power that's just as suspenseful as anything on television.

Having been spurned in his effort to have his first play, "Tamburlaine," staged, and hungry for lusty adventure, Kit prevails upon his loyal friend for an introduction to his uncle, Sir Francis Walsingham, the baleful spymaster for the queen.

It lost again in February when its bid for Abbey National was spurned in favor of a competing bid by the Lloyds TSB Group.

When we get rebuffed in the moment that occurs right before we touch the love object or when we are spurned in the peak of an early-stage love high we want to get back there forever.

COACH'S HIRE BLOCKED Brazil's soccer team was spurned in its attempt to hire a coach, with Muricy Ramalho staying at his Rio de Janeiro club, Fluminense, because of contractual obligations.

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