Sentence examples for rebuffed because of from inspiring English sources

Moves for Manchester City's Shay Given, Manchester United's Tomasz Kuszczak and Ben Alnwick of Tottenham were rebuffed because of their clubs' involvement in Europe.

After his release from a 13-year sentence in 2006, Mr. Warner tried to find steady work in New York, but was invariably rebuffed — because of his felony status, he suspects.

The brothers then applied for jobs at the Department of Sanitation but did not get hired, and sued again, alleging that they were rebuffed because of their involvement in the earlier case.

At the start of the war many blacks eagerly offered their services to the Union, but were rebuffed because of the prevailing racist assumption that they could not be good soldiers, and because most whites believed that blacks were not citizens and thus the nation was not theirs to defend.

The agency had asked for the new power as early as 1999, the documents show, but had been initially rebuffed because it was not permitted under rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that were intended to protect the privacy of Americans.

Many have gone after the single sign-on holy grail, but as of yet, all have been rebuffed, because no one wants to hand over all their sensitive personal information to one company.

I have some sympathy for those Labour operatives now insisting they urged Miliband to confront the Tory/Lib Dem narrative of Labour fiscal incontinence, only to be rebuffed – because I experienced that rebuffing for myself.

Two attempts to deliver letters to Washington were rebuffed because Howe refused to recognize Washington's title.

So far she has rebuffed him because of his refusal to countenance the idea of a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.

She claimed that Ivy Tech was rebuffing her because of her sexual orientation.

Israeli analyst Akiva Eldar, senior correspondent of the Al-Monitor website, says that Israel is continuing the military campaign and rebuffed the ceasefire because of the domestic political needs of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.