Sentence examples for spurned requests for from inspiring English sources

For years she has watched as high-end sellers spurned requests for concessions.

And his aides have spurned requests from several of Mr. Bush's supporters in Congress to campaign here.

The INS in Washington, contending that Congress' failure to provide amnesty for family units was not an oversight, has spurned requests that it settle the issue that threatens to tear immigrant families apart.

When Mr. Wartzman and Mr. Arax were doing research for "The King of California," Mr. Boswell spurned many requests for an interview.

My husband and I shared a small cone, which we could not finish, and looked on in awe as my mother-in-law ordered a large and, queenishly spurning any requests for a taste, polished the whole thing off — cone and all — and declared herself satisfied.

Although Turner Broadcasting had a mere two hundred and eighty-two million dollars in revenue in 1984, and the New York banks spurned his request for credit, in 1985 Turner got junk-bond financing that enabled him to make a $5.4-billion 5.4-billion brofferst network: CBS.

As the world gropes to fight terrorism, it's hardly reassuring to discover that the White House spurned a request for 80 more investigators to track and disrupt the global financial networks of terrorist groups.

Mr. Sadr has spurned those requests and for 19 days has continued to call for war against the Americans from his base there.

Libya's government, until recently spurned in its requests for help, gradually lost control.

Mr. Bush exacerbated Mr. Blair's political problems this week by spurning London's requests for the release of nine British citizens still being held in Guantánamo and for lifting steel tariffs ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization.

Befitting the team's close-to-the-vest nature, the owners John Mara and Steve Tisch have spurned interview requests.