Sentence examples for of rebuffs from inspiring English sources

After a week of rebuffs and threats, he gives up; maybe Sally doesn't need him.

As a result, his career was marked by a series of rebuffs which he, naturally, blamed on the KGB or the CIA, or possibly the British Foreign Office.

After months of rebuffs, a consortium led by Grupo Ferrovial, a Spanish construction company, has moved a step closer to its ambition of taking over BAA, a British company which is the world's biggest operator of airports.

He had told newsmen earlier this year, after a series of rebuffs by the Legislature, that he was thinking of leaving politics when his term of governor is finished.

She also mentioned she was Catholic as a way of rebuffing his advances.

In 2011 Kathleen Sebelius, the health secretary, took the extraordinary step of rebuffing her own colleague, Margaret Hamburg of the Food and Drug Administration FDAA).

You have found that people are easily attracted to you, but they sometimes draw back, nervous of rebuff.

Wisconsin's Scott Walker and Ohio's John Kasich made a show of rebuffing a total of $1.2 billion in federal high-speed rail help.

The BDP mayor of the city of Van accused the province's state-appointed governor of rebuffing his requests to co-ordinate rescue efforts.

On the one hand, the Soviet leader made a Kremlin show of rebuffing the Lithuanian Parliament's vote to secede from the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile, Trump has also made a habit of rebuffing allies like French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues including trade, climate change and the Iran deal.