Sentence examples for spurned us from inspiring English sources

They were "prideful men seeking that most elusive goal of all — acceptance and the respect of those who had spurned us".

Netanyahu very forthrightly spurned US demands to block a new settlement project in the occupied east of the city where an American millionaire plans to bulldoze an old hotel and build Jewish-only housing.

That's what happened in Baltimore; not long after the N.F.L. spurned us in its 1993 expansion round — choosing Jacksonville, of all places, instead — the city lured Art Modell and his Browns away from Cleveland, leaving people there as heartbroken as Colts fans had been.

While I'm sure we'd all like to turn the tables on those that spurned us, the problem with this as a movie is that we spend much of One Day waiting for Dexter to stop being a jerk while wondering why the increasingly attractive and accomplished Emma hasn't met someone better.

She spurns us out of the vastness of her love.

Magda loves us, but she spurns us just as we spurn her.

"But we humans are emotional beings, so the fact that some of our Oxford academic pride was wounded really did spurn us to bite the bullet".

Chilcot rejected Blair's view that spurning the US-led military alliance against Iraq would have done major damage to London's relations with Washington.

"Let us spurn earthly things; let us struggle towards the heavenly," he writes.

Scorned and spurned, jilted and angry, he implores us to understand.

Mr Zarif was also part of the team which drafted an offer of a 2003 "grand bargain", encompassing all aspects of US-Iranian relations, which was spurned by George W Bush. Having spent many years in America, and speaking fluent English, Mr Zarif stands for the resumption of relations with Washington.