His real estate idea had been rebuffed by management.
His requests for shareholder representation on the board were rebuffed, and management soon reverted to its former strategy of large land acquisitions and costly drilling programs, Mr. Icahn said in the letter.
At the time, I was rebuffed by the management of the orchestra with a firm "no".
But NRG's management rebuffed the all-stock deal, and its shareholders, at first enthusiastic, got cold feet as NRG's rising share price made the terms less generous.
After one tumultuous season of coaching the Nets, Kidd sought control of the team's basketball operations only to see his advances rebuffed by upper management, who then traded his coaching rights to the Milwaukee Bucks.
The head of Bragman Nyman Cafarelli – whose celebrity clients include Cameron Diaz and Jessica Alba – tried to buy back the 125-person firm about two months ago but was rebuffed after Interpublic management deemed the offer too low.
Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for former WorldCom auditor Arthur Andersen, rebuffed Capellas: "The management of WorldCom perpetrated a massive fraud on investors and the auditors," Dorton said early on Thursday.
Their efforts were rebuffed by PTC management, who claimed that the current union contract contained a clause prohibiting any significant change in employment practices and customs without the union's approval (although the contract said nothing about race).
[C6.] HOSTILE TAKEOVER BID Rebuffed by management at Take-Two Interactive, Electronic Arts began a direct tender offer to the company's shareholders.
It continues to pursue Yahoo! even though that company's senior management has rebuffed its advances.
