Sentence examples for spurned for being from inspiring English sources

Diane Abbott isn't just spurned for being a woman, she's attacked and ridiculed for being a black woman.

Augustine Says" quotes liberally from the Bishop of Hippo on the interdependence of body and soul ("In no wise are bodies themselves to be spurned, for these pertain not to ornament or aid which is applied from without, but to the very nature of man").

Nollywood may soon have to use another storyline: being spurned for still using a BlackBerry.

Mr. Rimi backed Mr. Obasanjo's presidential campaign but has become one of his harshest critics, after being spurned for the vice presidency and then the post of foreign minister.

"That opportunity was spurned for a number of reasons back in the mid to late 90s and I think we're back there," Evans told Radio Wales Sport.

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole's petition for eligibility as a disaster-relief area will be spurned for fear that Michael S. Dukakis, Walter F. Mondale and George S. McGovern will demand equal compensation.

Any semblance of democracy was spurned for nigh on 30 years.

Without a concerted and determined drive for quality and creative thinking, we in the entertainment-supply industry deserve to be spurned for our negligence," he said.

European offers to expand the small monitoring force they once provided at Rafah have been spurned for the moment.Israel has not so far agreed to let Gaza have its own seaport and airport.

The maverick novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis may have been unceremoniously spurned for the job of adapting the "mommy porn" publishing sensation Fifty Shades of Grey for the big screen, but it seems producers are still keeping him in the loop.

Brian Graham, Michael Gardyne and Ross Stewart all had spurned for the leaders but they were spared by Dundee United losing at home to Queen of the South.