Sentence examples for rebuffed according from inspiring English sources

Before doing so, they asked the Pirates about making a deal for Sojo, and were rebuffed, according to a major league official.

When Viacom offered $750 million for Facebook in January, he asked for $2 billion and was rebuffed, according to a person involved in the negotiations.

But their April 1999 request to have the mayor write to federal prosecutors in Manhattan was rebuffed, according to a Republican Party official with knowledge of the talks.

Some leaders in the evangelical Christian community approached Mr. Gingrich quietly in January about getting out of the race, but were rebuffed, according to Richard Land, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission at the Southern Baptist Convention.

Several Wall Street buyout firms approached AOL Time Warner earlier this year about the possibility of acquiring its flagship online unit but were rebuffed, according to executives close to the discussions.

When people came to Mr. Sutton to complain about unfairness they perceived in the company's compensation system, they would be rebuffed, according to a former employee who was present for one such dressing- down.

His response to these rebuffs, according to the victim's recollection, was to utter something along the lines of, "Be quiet and be a good girl".

Two weeks ago, he offered to resign but Tenet's board rebuffed him, according to Maurice J. DeWald, chairman of the board's audit committee and chairman of the Verity Financial Group in Irvine, Calif.

She also said that he sent her violent and threatening e-mail messages when she rebuffed his advances, according to court papers.

Mr. Wulff also called Mathias Döpf ner, the chief executive of Axel Springer, who rebuffed his entreaties, according to reports that were confirmed by Tobias Fröhlich, a spokesman for Bild.

After she rebuffed his advances, according to the Donald Spoto biography "Spellbound by Beauty," Hitchcock subjected her to repeated attacks on a closed set using real, and quite savage, birds instead of the mechanical ones she had been promised, and refused to let her out of a contract.