The vote of confidence their respective electorates gave them is also a clear rebuff to the republican dissidents seeking to destabilise Northern Ireland through their renewed violent campaigns.
"My first priority is to get rid of Stephen Harper," he said in response to the Liberal leader's rebuff.
The 225-vote majority, greeted with rare applause in the public gallery, was marred for the prime minister, who suffered a humiliating rebuff when more than half of the parliamentary Tory party declined to support the government on an issue he has personally invested in.
The mould-breaking outcome of Turkey's general election on Sunday will be viewed as a personal rebuff for the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and as a historic political breakthrough for the country's 18 million-strong Kurdish minority, which will be represented by a political party in parliament for the first time.
While City aren't exactly wacky neighbours to rival Cosmo Kramer, they are popping up in this whole sorry affair, if only to rebuff attempts from Real to sign Sergio Agüero, who himself will somehow turn down the chance to work with Rafa Benítez.
A brief visit to his office was met with a rebuff: the executive committee of Shetland Lib Dems had resolved that Carmichael had retained their full confidence following a meeting Tuesday evening and there was "nothing more to say".
China's anger at this rebuff has contributed greatly to the worsening of relations between the two sides.Trouble abroad is not necessarily evidence of policy failure.
Indeed, such debates survive even between Britain's overmighty central government and its enfeebled local authorities.The case for devolution and the decentralisation of political power in Britain will receive an unexpected rebuff if voters in Scotland and Wales turn down the proposals on offer this month.
And developers of big websites should now be considering Web Applications Firewalls (WAFs), which can be tailored to rebuff unwanted requests intended to overload the site's search, shopping cart or document-uploading features.
In other words, he is a standing rebuff to the entire concept of the separation of powers.Such considerations have never seemed to bother the British public much.
FOR the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, it was the second rebuff in a national referendum in less than a year.
