Sentence examples for initially spurned from inspiring English sources
And associates say that he initially spurned a bid from Wachovia after he was approached early in the search.
Mr. Flom and Skadden became specialists at counseling about bet-your-company deals because the old-style white-shoe firms initially spurned the work.
He recalled that although AT&T initially spurned Comcast's unsolicited takeover offer in July 2001, by the end of that year the companies had agreed to a deal.
But Unicom can take solace from PetroChina: after being picketed by protesters and initially spurned by investors, it now trades comfortably above its offering price.
The person most responsible for adopting and raising him was his step-grandmother, yet it is his grandfather, who initially spurned him and had abandoned Thomas's own mother, who gets all the credit.
He's the son of Roscoe's oldest friend, and his mother, Veronica, is Roscoe's great love, a love so urgent and necessary that, initially spurned by Veronica, he married her rowdy sister Pamela, herself settling the score for "genetic iniquities".
At wit's end, with the help of a kind, impoverished woman, whom he initially spurns, and who usually works in the food-service industry, the hero sees the error of his ways.
By way of consolation, Noel plays Oasis songs live, and after initially spurning Oasis material, Liam is to follow suit with his band Beady Eye, who are supporting The Stone Roses at Heaton Park on 30 June.
Just a few loose screws Malaysia meets reality ReprintsFortis's bid for Générale, spurned initially but then accepted on May 12th, appeared to have swept up the only remaining Belgian bank of any size which is why Jan Kalff, ABN Amro's chairman, said that his bank "must be willing to pay a rather high price" for Générale.
Initially, that was true: every publisher that saw the book spurned it.
"I didn't have any dry spells!" Ferguson initially joked when the barren period, which included a good opportunity spurned against Rafael Benitez's Chelsea on Sunday, cropped up.
