Sentence examples for direct snub from inspiring English sources

Given that few players disobey or skip the strict Uefa protocols, it was regarded in many quarters as a direct snub to the Israeli team.

It interprets the Treasury's declaration that there will be "no inflationary pay awards" as a direct snub to the firefighters' claim.

When Mbeki named Ngcuka's wife as the successor to Zuma as the deputy president, it was regarded as a direct snub to him.

In a direct snub to the central government, Mr. Hashimoto has appointed a panel of nuclear engineers and seismologists, who have faulted the stress tests for being conducted even before the government has finished its own inquiry into what went wrong at Fukushima.

"I thought he had a poor 45 seconds," said the assistant manager Kenny Black after Bradford's 2-1 vintory, in a direct snub to the new rules introduced this season for the re-formatted Football League tournament which now features Under-23 academy sides from Premier League and Championship clubs.

Yet as the conference began this week, two of the big five unions walked out.The departure of the communist-backed Confédération Générale du Travail and Force Ouvrière, which between them account for nearly half of elected works councils in France, was a direct snub to Mr Hollande.

George Clooney and Grant Heslov, producers of "Argo," joked about their fellow producer Ben Affleck's directing snub.

Ltd. whose classes equipped all types of service people against customers, teaching the techniques of disdain, the snub direct & implied, Schadenfreude, the lot.

And Russian disdain for Western protests against brutality in Chechnya is a direct reaction to that snub.

And backstage, he handled questions about his Oscar snub for directing with a well-crafted line.

That infamous snub was directed at a young Abner Mikva when he stopped by a Chicago ward office looking to volunteer for the Democrats in the 1948 election.