He ignored and snubbed his mother (who had pawned her last diamond to pay for his passage to Palestine), and he rebuffed every attempt to arrange a meeting between him and his illegitimate daughter.
We must not under any circumstances strike with such violence, even though Hamas has for years made life excruciating for the Israelis who live on Gaza's perimeter, even though Hamas's leaders have rebuffed every Israeli and Egyptian endeavor to achieve a compromise and prevent a conflagration.
Shambles rebuffed every offer of friendship or help extended to her by her tribemates through Dave.
"We've been rebuffed at every turn," Bettman said of negotiations with the N.H.L. Players AssociationN.H.L. Players Association
The lawsuit says that Mr. Walker has repeatedly sought to strike a compromise with the administration, but that he has been rebuffed at every turn.
He said Mr. Osborne "was rebuffed at every turn" by the state, creating "grave doubts about the adequacy of the procedural protections" in state law.
In a letter to the chancellor, she said she had approached the principal, Richard Kaplan, and the office of the Manhattan high school superintendent, seeking copies of the purchase orders for the books but was rebuffed at every step.
Spurred on by a moral, if idealistic, desire to redistribute the wealth and improve the lot of ordinary Nigerians, Chief OIA Akinyemi ventured into the political arena, where he was constantly propositioned with bribes, which he rebuffed at every turn.
I pictured that left-out fact darting around to find an opening and being rebuffed by every paragraph it tried to squeeze into — like someone trying door after door in a desperate effort to board a thoroughly stuffed rush-hour subway.
The company is still awaiting the outcome of its tender offer for Take Two Interactive, which the other gaming company has rebuffed at every turn.
Mashape has a somewhat unusual backstory: The Italian startup spent two years looking for funding in its home country, only to be rebuffed at every turn.
