Sentence examples for rebuff on from inspiring English sources

But it did not stipulate the colonel's departure, the main rebel demand.In five-star hotels dripping with chandeliers, the Libyan rebel council echoed the rebuff on the streets.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, the deputy treasury secretary, said he was saddened and disappointed by a rebuff on Friday by Pascal Lamy, the European Union's trade commissioner.

The US suffered a major diplomatic and military rebuff on Friday when Iraq finally rejected its pleas to maintain bases in the country beyond this year.

A18 Democratic Rebuff on Taxes President Bush met with moderate Democratic senators in search of support for his $1.6 trillion tax cut, but appeared to make no headway.

He received a humiliating rebuff on May 21st when the Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, composed of regional leaders, voted to keep in office the country's top prosecutor, Yuri Skuratov, whom Mr Yeltsin wants sacked.

B1 Rebuff on Contraception Plan The Bush administration has refused to approve a proposal by Governor Pataki and the Legislature to provide subsidized contraceptive services to tens of thousands of low-income New Yorkers.

Mrs Voynet hinted she might, if such rebuffs went on, pull her Greens out of the coalition.

It is being rebuffed on the ground that it chose.

Brascan, the second bidder, was also rebuffed on Tuesday.

BESET by scandal, rebuffed on fast track, the Clinton administration has gone on a charm offensive.

Efforts by foreign journalists to enter the country from neighboring Ghana were rebuffed on Sunday.