Sentence examples for first spurned from inspiring English sources

He was at first spurned by the C.I.A., which thought he knew little of interest.

Mr Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the KDP first spurned the referendum movement, for fear it would upset the Americans.

They were first spurned by Australian authorities who suspected they were spies, and then alienated by some of the nationalist Japanese at the camp.

When he announced plans to transfer production of the Panda (300,000 a year) from Poland to a factory near Naples, sustaining the 5,000 jobs there, some workers at first spurned this opportunity because they would have to make a downmarket model as well as the posher Alfa Romeos they currently turn out (at a rate of just 30,000 a year).

Roche ended up paying $40 million for what it had first spurned.

His response when she first spurns his advances – he's still married at the time – is to cut his own face with glass.

And he has been at his worst when he's put politics first: spurning Simpson-Bowles, doubling down on Afghanistan for fear of being called a wimp and dropping "climate change" from his speeches.

This is a movie about the king and his love life, and it has Anne first spurning his advances and then pining for him when it's too late.

The striker continued to push for a third, spurning a chance when his partner-in-crime Luis Suarez was in a much better position to score, and he was hauled off in the second half by manager Brendan Rodgers.

Implausibly sensible: After Davis at first spurns her man for a life of escapism, they try for marital bliss in the face of imminent death.

The same, or almost the same, goes for Lily's suitors, Dan Aykroyd and Anthony LaPaglia: respectively, Gus Treynor, the married man whose attentions are the beginning of Lily's downfall, and Sim Rosedale, the wealthy bachelor whose offer of marriage Lily first spurns, and then, in dire financial straits, humiliatingly wishes to accept.