Sentence examples for rebuff this from inspiring English sources

They could rebuff this foreign capital, by tightening caps, regulations and other restrictions on foreign investment.

I remember standing in a bathroom at the restaurant where he first made a pass at me, looking at myself in the mirror and trying to figure out how to rebuff this person without losing the job I loved.

We can point and laugh because eventually someone higher up on the production-value food chain will rebuff this sloganeering with their own moderately more popular sloganeering and everything will go back to normal, because this is how politics works in Canada now.

Israel "rebuffs" this angry order and "defies" the U.S. spokesman.

The White House doctor, however, quickly rebuffed this offer.

In a sound ruling last week, a federal judge in Illinois rebuffed this flimsy argument.

All of which might explain why Britney really rebuffed this most ungallant of businessmen.

When the Defense Intelligence Agency rebuffed this blatant interference, Mr. Feith's team wrote its own report.

Unlike the national-unity government agreed upon in Mecca, which the EU rebuffed, this one will be comprised of technocrats.

Pakistan has for several years rebuffed this politically unpopular request as an invasion of its citizens' privacy.

Two years ago the Conservative Political Action Conference, as the gathering is called, rebuffed this pro-abortion, pro-gun control, and pro-homosexuality New Yorker.