Some European pension funds have withdrawn investments; some large corporations have cancelled contracts; and the American secretary of state, John Kerry, rarely misses a chance to warn Israel that efforts to "delegitimise" and boycott it will increase if its government spurns his efforts to conclude a two-state settlement of its conflict with the Palestinians.
He is fascinated, he says, by "the journey of a man who spurns the world and is cynical about it, and whose cynicism is based on a kind of honesty".
Genome Biology, BMC's flagship journal, which accepts just one paper in ten, passes 40% of the sound but humdrum sort it spurns to its less prestigious sister publications with reviews attached, says Matthew Cockerill, the group's managing director.
Michael Mayo, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), goes further: he spurns them all.
Later, he spurns Oxford to study at Heidelberg, spends a lonesome stretch in London, and tries painting in Paris.
The next day she hectored Biljana Plavsic, the head of Bosnia's Serb Republic, which spurns the tribunal as anti-Serb.If her threats are ignored, might NATO's troops make arrests?
Few backed the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which spurns parliament, calls public strikes and is remembered for the brutality and corruption of its rule in 2001-06.Facing a general election in a couple of years, Sheikh Hasina might hope to embed democracy and persuade voters to re-elect her a first for the country.
If he spurns her, she will join hands with Mr Sharif and the mullahs to dethrone him.
If India is forced to talk both to Kashmiris and to Pakistan about Kashmir, Pakistan will have achieved an important aim; if India spurns the bait, it may attract the blame.
Indeed, some of their leaders are graduates of ITAM, one of Mexico's most prestigious universities, which spurns the ideological biases that afflict most others.
Vadim Kolesnichenko, of the Party of the Regions, led by Victor Yanukovich, whom Mr Yushchenko defeated, says that Ukraine is acting like a wounded bear, which spurns its benefactor (Russia) when it heals.
