Sentence examples for rebuffed his request from inspiring English sources

The Georgians rebuffed his request.

She rebuffed his request for her phone number because she was seeing someone else.

But he pointed out that immediately after the U.N. vote Bush hosted the heads of state of the G8 at Sea Island, Georgia, and they rebuffed his request for more substantial assistance.

While Martinez laughed about how quickly the Yankees rebuffed his request to discuss a three-year contract extension last month, Martinez, who is 32, obviously wonders why they declined to consider it.

The city, which promised to provide $14 million in subsidies for affordable units in Mr. Ratner's first building, has rebuffed his request for $10 million more, saying it would not give him more per unit than it gives any other developer.

Mr. Bruno said that if Mr. Pataki rebuffed his request, the Senate would begin the process of passing its own budget plan, in concert with the Assembly, which is dominated by Democrats, by introducing spending bills for education, higher education, human services, labor, health care and so on, including a bill to raise new revenue.

But federal prosecutors repeatedly rebuffed his requests, saying he had a history of lying.

A retired top general in Britain recently said that the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown had rebuffed his requests for more troops, a charge Mr. Brown denied.

With the blessing of his wife, Jeanette (who, according to family lore, rebuffed his requests for a first date through six months of hard negotiating), he decided to hang out his own shingle.

On Monday, the White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, sent a letter to the oversight committee chairman, Elijah Cummings, rebuffing his request and effectively daring him to start issuing subpoenas.

The BDP mayor of the city of Van accused the province's state-appointed governor of rebuffing his requests to co-ordinate rescue efforts.