He was rebuffed in a dispute that spilled out into the press and most of the line was never sold.
Mr. First recalled spending hours outside Mr. Moussaoui's cell, being rebuffed in his efforts to coax him into a conversation.
Six years ago, he rebuffed a probe into his energy task-force on the ground that it "would unconstitutionally interfere with the functioning of the executive branch".
Tuesday's midterm election was hardly the first time that a political party in power had been rebuked and rebuffed two years into office.
He was rebuffed when he ran into a shop, begging to use its phone, as the shop's owner didn't believe his story.
Then, like a lax bouncer, the barrier starts letting through undesirables, various proteins or bacteria that would normally be rebuffed; they then leak into surrounding tissues.
Once again, Russia's apologists present the prospect of the bear, once rebuffed, sinking even further into resentful degradation and nerve-racking unpredictability, and bristling all the while with nuclear missiles.
Mr. Brink pays a professional call upon Julian Northrup, a feisty octogenarian better known as Gramps, only to be rebuffed and later tricked into climbing an apple tree from which he cannot descend to resume his duties.
The urgency of that task becomes inescapably clear when one ponders the trials of Rodney Rocha, an obscure engineer who tried repeatedly, and in vain, to warn shuttle managers of a potential catastrophe, only to be rebuffed and ultimately pounded into acquiescing with the prevailing view that all was well.
Eventually, Kato's body was found by police and ward officials in July 2010, when ward officials intending to honour his achievement of longevity on Respect for the Aged Day later that year were again rebuffed and police broke into the house.
