Sentence examples similar to rebuffed at once from inspiring English sources

Butters and his "ladies" go to ACORN to try to get a housing grant, which gets rebuffed at first but granted once the little pimp recognizes one of his clients in a position of power.

Hanna felt rebuffed at first, but she ultimately took the advice.

"We've been rebuffed at every turn," Bettman said of negotiations with the N.H.L. Players AssociationN.H.L. Players Association

When it is rebuffed at a key level of resistance, it's an exit signal.

Despite being rebuffed at that event by then-Sen.

Attempts by Congress at oversight were rebuffed, especially once concerns had been aroused about conditions in Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.

But Parliament rebuffed her once again.

And he was rebuffed once before, when he applied to be the BBC's director-general in 1987.

Alison Mosshart inhabits the role of a lead singer cagily, at once beckoning and rebuffing affection; her fellow vocalist Jack White does the same thing, with ruddier results.

Allegorical readings of Giorgos Lanthimos's singular fable were at once irresistible and coolly rebuffed.

Mr. Reiskin rebuffed the notion that the city might not be able to efficiently handle so many projects at once.