Sentence examples for had not rebuffed from inspiring English sources

Do you think that if Ehud Olmert had not rebuffed him this deal could have been brokered and Shalit released years earlier?

Ms. Rice contended that the Russians had not rebuffed her because "they did say that the Iranians do not currently have the confidence of the international community".

American defense officials insisted that Mr. Maliki had not rebuffed the defense secretary, but it was not until late on Thursday, hours after Mr. Gates landed in Baghdad, that they said that Mr. Maliki had agreed to see him on Friday morning.

The company has agreed to review the offer; it has not rebuffed it.

He said Mr. Engen and Pechiney's chief executive, Jean-Pierre Rodier, had discussed the possibility of a deal on several recent occasions and that Alcan's overtures had not been rebuffed "with the same determination as we've seen this morning".

But the uproar highlights the problems associated with having a leading shareholder (as Chinalco might become with Rio) with potentially differing interests to other investors.A rights issue would also have the unfortunate effect of reminding shareholders of how much better off they might have been had Rio not rebuffed the advances of BHP.

In a sense, since she hadn't unequivocally rebuffed him, anything she said about her husband bordered on betrayal.

Mr. Crosson, who said he had not heard about plans for the August meeting, rebuffed Mr. Bass's contentions.

He rebuffed suggestions from service providers that the department had not responded to requests for resources and also security issues.

I had not dared to call ahead, fearing that he would have time to think of an excuse to rebuff us.

Still, though at first rebuffed, he has not quite given up hope of luring both Tzipi Livni, the leader of the centrist Kadima party, and Ehud Barak, her Labour counterpart, into a unity government of a milder complexion.