Sentence examples for rebuff as from inspiring English sources
This is why the Turks received the European rebuff as such a deep insult.
He had long been lobbying for talks, and seemed to regard India's rebuff as an insult to both Pakistan and the legitimacy of his government.
Anticorruption activists, however, see the legislators' rebuff as political payback, the latest punch in a continuing battle between the agency and lawmakers, many of whom have been caught up in its dragnet.
Critics who have likened Mr. Blair to "Bush's poodle" have also pointed to this rebuff as evidence that his steadfast allegiance to Mr. Bush has not even gained him influence in Washington.
But when officials of the London exchange announced and rejected OM's informal offer on Friday, Mr. Larsson dismissed the rebuff as "predictable" and insisted that "we are determined that the London market should have a better alternative" to its proposed German merger.
The two-10s strategy now appears as much a product of Wilkinson's polite rebuff as an overarching policy.
In the afternoon, some German prisoners of war were sent into the town with an invitation to surrender but this approach was rebuffed, as had been a similar attempt earlier that morning.
Unfortunately, every attempt to establish a dialogue with his administration has been rebuffed (as have efforts like those of "Kony 2012" to get, for example, Oprah, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, or Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz to speak on the people's behalf).
The rebuff was as blunt as any the Taliban leader has given since President Bush demanded the surrender of Mr. bin Laden.
You have to believe at some level it was their rebuff to Hollywood as well as their triumph over it -- they could out-Hollywood Hollywood.
