And in recent years, the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, has repeatedly been rebuffed from making deals in the United States, over national security concerns.
Although Nascar was rebuffed from building on Staten Island and is having ambiguous television ratings and possibly declining attendance, the sport is still claiming to be the robust younger brother to football.
She also spoke of an experience from her own career, when she was rebuffed from a promotion in 1994 at the insurer Norwich Union, now Aviva.
Early offers were rebuffed amid false claims from Abuja that "most of the girls had been rescued" and Nigerians have expressed outrage over their government's slow response to the kidnapping.
Efforts by foreign journalists to enter the country from neighboring Ghana were rebuffed on Sunday.
But wider-ranging cuts were rebuffed by the BBC Trust after protests from listeners and MPs.
In some instances, when her requests were rebuffed, she used pictures from Web sites and old newspaper articles.
For instance, he said, when MAFF called an "important international scientific meeting" about the BSE crisis, it did not even tell the Department of Health that the meeting was taking place, let alone invite it to attend.Independent scientists' requests for information from MAFF were rebuffed.
I just implement little things, which address certain issues and they carry everything out". Stubbs needed to overhaul a depleted squad in his first campaign and had to deal with the loss of star man Scott Allan this summer, the midfielder joining Celtic after repeated bids from Rangers were rebuffed.
They have said the NFL's efforts to obtain the video from law enforcement were rebuffed.
That may irk some former owners, who had rust problems, sought help from Toyota and were rebuffed.
