Sentence examples for rebuffed until from inspiring English sources

"Magical" explanations, like spooky action, are constantly being revived and rebuffed, until, at last, they are reinterpreted and accepted.

He was repeatedly rebuffed until, in 1989, finally despairing of the war, the outsiders agreed to stop paying their proxies.

NATO commanders in Afghanistan have called for more forces repeatedly over the last two years, but were rebuffed until the Marine unit arrived.

Challenges to that state law were rebuffed until an appeals court ruled that the law couldn't be tested until local voters actually approved a wage ordinance; the court, in effect, ordered that the wage increase go to a vote.

Mr. Soltren also wanted to face justice, Mr. Neuman said, but his efforts to turn himself in to the United States Interests Section in Havana were rebuffed until late last year, when he was arrested at the same airport he had flown from in 1968.

According to a letter sent to Time Warner Cable management by Charter, and published by the latter company, it approached its now potential purchase several times in 2013, only to be rebuffed until December.

When Lee advanced into Pennsylvania in June, Hooker followed him closely until, rebuffed by Washington in his request for additional troops to meet the enemy at Gettysburg in July, he sensed his superiors' distrust and resigned his command on the eve of battle.

Pakistan, under the control of a military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has until now rebuffed American requests to help secure Mr. bin Laden's arrest.

When I first met Sally, she was still making piteous efforts to include them in her new life in New Jersey — all of which they rebuffed like cruel suitors, until she was compelled to close the door on both of them, which thrilled me.

You can only extend the hand of friendship and have it rebuffed so many times until you get the message that it is pointless.

He can cite the precedent of Edward Heath, the Conservative Prime Minister, who tried to do a deal with the Liberals in February 1974 that would have kept him in office, and did not resign until they had rebuffed him.