Sentence examples for was being rebuffed from inspiring English sources

Just as the medium was being rebuffed by one lauded institution this week, it was being embraced by another.

While Japan was quick to accept the American military's offers to help victims of the tsunami, the perception in Washington in the early days, that it was being rebuffed and misled in the unfolding nuclear disaster, had created "a crisis in the United States-Japan alliance," said Akihisa Nagashima, a former vice minister of defense.

On the very day that the New York Times reported that the Israeli military had demolished the homes of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley in order to clear the area to consolidate Israeli control, that very same military was being rebuffed in its efforts to remove an illegal Jewish settler outpost in that very same occupied West Bank.

It is being rebuffed on the ground that it chose.

While we were being rebuffed, we saw a gaggle of children surround Ms. Hayek, their tape recorders out (and no red carpet in sight!).

It came during rebel attempts to push towards regime-held districts of the capital, which were being rebuffed by intensive shell fire from Syrian units.

THERE is a scene in the movie "He's Just Not That Into You" in which Mary, played by Drew Barrymore, laments the numerous technological ways she is being rebuffed by a potential beau.

Now his efforts to deliver reform are being rebuffed.With the help of the IMF, a devaluation and higher oil prices, the economy bounced back quickly last year (see chart).

It is already quite difficult to think back to a time – a mere two years ago – when United were being rebuffed in most of their approaches, led up the garden path by Everton and duped by unauthorised third parties in Spain.

Flight attendants demanding the right to wear surgical masks and gloves as protection from severe acute respiratory syndrome are being rebuffed by some airlines anxious not to frighten customers, the union for the majority of domestic flight attendants is charging.

One senior military officer said that General Petraeus had started talking openly about the Patriot deployments about a month ago, when it became increasingly clear that international efforts toward imposing sanctions against Iran faced hurdles, and the administration's efforts to engage Iran were being rebuffed by the Tehran government.