Nor rebuff the seeker .

Nor rebuff the seeker .

Last November s Congressional elections dealt President George W. Bush a sharp rebuff over his Iraq policy.

Finkelstein vowed not to take the rebuff lying down or, perhaps more correctly, to do something just like that.

It was only after the West encountered an armed rebuff in South Ossetia that NATO expansion was stopped in its tracks.

There will be a single stern rebuff and lo , they will be observing with their own eyes ( all that they had been warned against ) .

There will be a single stern rebuff and lo , they will be observing with their own eyes ( all that they had been warned against ) .

Both the Serbian nationalists and any other parties to the conflict who are counting on force will meet with a sharp rebuff from the United Nations.

Lastly, to indicate that the road map was doomed was a rebuff, a sign of hopelessness, and such words should not be uttered in the Third Committee.

That just might be an adequate rebuff to the rise of PTAs whose main objective is to serve hegemonic interests alone perhaps even sufficient to get the multilateral approach back on track.

I wanted to show by my marriage that though he was led astray, as I believe by that innate kindliness and courtesy of his which made it so hard for him to rebuff the advances of a woman,

Why, then, did the European Commission remain silent? The answer appears to be that it feared negative reactions from the three governments involved in the merger talks, and believed that its own authority would suffer from any public rebuff.

The recent No vote in France and the Netherlands is putatively a rebuff to the draft constitution of the European Union, but the verdict actually highlights a deepening concern on how to resolve the crisis of the welfare state. That crisis has far reaching implications for public administration revitalization in the EU as a whole.