To ensure that the data would not be tainted by allegations of torture or illegal coercion, the FBI and military team won the suspects' trust over the past 16 months by using time-tested rapport-building techniques, the officials said.... Officials said most of the detainees talked to FBI and military interrogators, some for days, others for months, while one or two rebuffed them.
At first, The Knack's demo tapes were ignored, including four rebuffs from Capitol, the label they eventually signed to.
There was one rebuff, nevertheless, against which I was utterly powerless.
Two humiliating rebuffs from the White House later, she's vanished.
After suffering two major rebuffs in the Middle East in less than a week, the Bush administration is now expected to pull back and reconsider what kind of leadership role the United States should play in the region, senior officials say.
Take Two has rebuffed E.A.'s offer of $26 a share, or $2 billion.
And earlier this year, Sara Lee said that it would split its food and beverage businesses in two after rebuffing a takeover overture from JBS of Brazil.
Gov. Gary E. Johnson, a Republican, tried today to get the State Election Canvassing Board to ask county officials to take another look at the general election results, but the board's two Democrats rebuffed him.
Mitchells & Butlers, a 2,105-pub 2,105-pubbuffed two buyout offers this spring.
Tuesday's midterm election was hardly the first time that a political party in power had been rebuked and rebuffed two years into office.
