Sentence examples for the rebuff of from inspiring English sources

He said he hoped that the rebuff of the tax bill would change that.

If President Bush were to meekly accept the rebuff of a further watering-down of the U.S.-British resolution, his administration would become a laughingstock.

The rebuff of Mr. Arafat coincides with a European diplomatic effort led by British Prime Minister Tony Blair when he met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Mr. Arafat last week.

IN fiction, as in the other arts, we on occasion feel the exaltation of the deeply difficult, but far more often we encounter the reverse, what feels like the rebuff of a willed exclusivity.

No British prime minister in memory has sought and failed to win support from his legislators for military action, and the rebuff of Mr. Cameron late Thursday means the United States will have to intervene without its closest security and intelligence ally.

Among German women, however, the results are an across-the-board rebuff of Germany's high-testosterone brands.

The brutal rebuff of his love is in it, the turmoil of his affair with a prostitute, the uncertainty of his life in Paris and the explosiveness of his residence in Arles with Gauguin.

It is important to note the reason for the union's rebuff of the proposed four-conference plan.

A giant American flag above Baltimore's Fort McHenry on Sept. 14, 1814, signaling the city's rebuff of the mighty British navy during the War of 1812.

Ms. Myers said the account of the rebuff had helped spur the outside review of the office.

The convention in that form is to stress its unattainability and the cruel rebuffs of the beloved.