Sentence examples for this rebuff from inspiring English sources

Since Genoa was not his goal, he accepted this rebuff with equanimity.

After this rebuff the king left London on January 10, this time for the north of England.

Clegg can hardly be seen to take this rebuff to the centrepiece of his constitutional reform programme with total equanimity.

China's anger at this rebuff has contributed greatly to the worsening of relations between the two sides.Trouble abroad is not necessarily evidence of policy failure.

Lyndon Johnson was the last president to suffer this rebuff when Congress threw out several provisions of the Kennedy round of global tariff cuts in 1967.

Vauban was crushed by this rebuff, but the story that his book made Louis XIV forget his past services is untrue.

This latest rebuff may well prove to be a provocation too far.

This curt rebuff is said to explain Neave's deep hostility to Heath in later years.

In the face of this total rebuff, ASEAN's leaders decided to pretend that nothing was wrong.

Could it possibly be that, at his age, he wanted to write this to rebuff the old attacks?

This insulting rebuff caused the immediate collapse of Cimon's popularity at Athens: at the next opportunity an ostracism, or vote for the exile of the most unpopular citizen, was held; Cimon headed the poll and had to leave Athens for 10 years (461).