Sentence examples for for a rebuff from inspiring English sources

It was an invitation for a rebuff, which duly came.

When idiots like Green speak, I'm thrilled because it clears column inches for a rebuff.

Like beggars, journalists must always be prepared for a rebuff, and cannot afford to let pride prevent them from making the pitch.

Bush's advisers are also well aware that to insist publicly that Ariel Sharon do as we say, not as we do, begs for a "rebuff".

But with a Congress that's focused on deficit reduction -- and that's already furloughed many workers this year through the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration -- plenty of federal employees are bracing themselves for a rebuff from lawmakers.

It is also a significant personal victory for Mr Cameron and a rebuff for those in his party who had become increasingly sceptical about his ability to win.

The decision, a departure from the Court's usual deference to the labor board's interpretation of the law, was a victory for unions, a defeat for employers and a rebuff to the labor board's current conservative majority.

PAGE B1 Prosecutions Centralized Attorney General John Ashcroft set up a central structure for terrorist cases, a rebuff to the United States attorney in New York.

Moderates had also feared that Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi had long-term designs on the leader's chair for himself.In this section The spectre of civil war A rebuff for the president Princes at odds Death to the nurses The next president, perhaps?

The President's remark was interpreted in some quarters as a rebuff for Mr. Lewis and the impression seems growing that the conflict, for the settlement of which hopes were bright earlier in the week, may evolve.

The choice of the former Prime Minister to detail the devolution plans is a rebuff for Alistair Darling, the head of Better Together, who was mauled by Alex Salmond in a televised debate last week.