Sentence examples for spurn any from inspiring English sources

THE determination of the House of Commons to spurn any opportunity to rebuild its good name is something to behold.

American officials predict that after decades of dictatorship, the Shiite community will spurn any authoritarian rule, secular or religious.

And Peru, a poor country stashed with underground resources and not much else, cannot easily afford to spurn any offer of foreign investment to develop them.

His aides argued that Miliband could not spurn any platform to make his case to be prime minister to the British public.

The hard-line Baathist movement announced on its official Web site Tuesday that it would spurn any reconciliation with the new Iraqi government, which it described as "collaborators, spies and traitors".

Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, sent letters to Jets and Giants executives on Thursday asking that they end their negotiations with Allianz, and to Goldberg, demanding that the authority "act boldly" to spurn any ties with Allianz.

Typically, she spurned any kind of easy pigeonhole.

He spurns any criticism as the sour grapes of 'those who are threatened, ideologically or territorially'.

It is presumably part of her countercultural sorcery that she spurns any kind of linear narrative.

Prada's Sunday night show spurned any idea of family or convention.

The authors admitted falsehoods and amended the book, Rushdie received an apology – and spurned any cash – at the High Court.