Pakistan, under the control of a military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has until now rebuffed American requests to help secure Mr. bin Laden's arrest.
The move again raised the possibility that ConAgra may finally turn its bid hostile, having now been rebuffed by Ralcorp three times.
Mr Obama's own experience with intervening in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ended in humiliation years ago, after he was rebuffed by the Israeli government, and Iran's nuclear programme has now crowded out the peace process.
The attorneys claim that Zimmerman repeatedly rebuffed their legal advice, and that they have now lost contact with him.
Cleveland, Washington, Cincinnati and Baltimore -- teams that own the first five selections -- have all considered accepting deals to go lower in the draft, only to, for now, rebuff those trades.
Now that London has successfully rebuffed the bid, its shareholders have expressed willingness to revisit the share-ownership limit.
Having been rebuffed, TCI now wants to double its bet.
The requests have been rebuffed for now, the officials said, after deliberations in Washington among senior Bush administration officials who fear that attacking Pakistani radicals may anger Pakistan's new government, which is negotiating with the militants, and destabilize an already fragile security situation.
Each time, he has been rebuffed.
This has been rebuffed by No 10.
So far, however, the United States has been rebuffed.
