Sentence examples for rebuff objections from inspiring English sources

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When chancellors of the exchequer impose a fiscal squeeze, they tend to rebuff objections with the line: "If it isn't hurting, it isn't working".

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American Airlines' chances of taking over the ailing Trans World Airlines were bolstered over the weekend when a federal judge rebuffed objections from the financier Carl C. Icahn, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines.

C1 Good News for American American Airlines' chances of taking over the ailing Trans World Airlines were bolstered over the weekend when a federal judge rebuffed objections from the financier Carl C. Icahn, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines.

I cannot imagine any recent home secretary rebuffing objections to immigrants taking over whole areas of a city with the thought that "Conservative MPs are inclined to congregate in Belgravia but nobody seems to mind".

The state of Virginia has approved a controversial oyster farming experiment in the Chesapeake Bay, rebuffing objections from federal agencies and opting not to wait for advice from a blue-ribbon scientific panel.

In a nearly 300-page report, the Coastal Commission's San Diego staff rebuffed Ciani's objections and has recommended that the commission approve the project when it meets Friday in Mission Valley.

The bill passed over the objections of Mayor Bernard Carvalho after the council rebuffed his suggestion that it delay voting on the measure for one month so that he could finish working out a deal between state officials and the biotech companies that would lessen the county's financial and logistical burdens in enforcing the bill.

When more than one million people in Beijing signed a petition against nuclear power, Chiang Hsin-Hsiung, the Minister of Nuclear Industry, rebuffed the complainants by issuing a statement that the government "the unscientific objections from some people would not halt the Daya Bay project".

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Domestic objections.

International objections.

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