Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis arose, ironically, only one month after Britain's European partners had, in a dramatic show of solidarity, voted unanimously to impose sanctions against Argentina for one month. Last week's first rebuff came when foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg reluctantly agreed to extend those sanctions for only seven more days instead of the additional month the British had sought. Italy and Ireland did not go along with even that limited measure. But a crueler blow fell the next day in Brussels, where Community agriculture ministers voted 7 to 1 (with Denmark and Greece abstaining) to override...
Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward the European Community, which last week issued an important rebuff to a Belgian plan to restructure the nation's archaic steel industry at a cost of $1.1 billion and 5,000 lost jobs. Two major trade unions in Wallonia promptly began a weeklong series of strikes and demonstrations...
...modern President could have been less equipped by nature for political life. Painfully shy, Nixon dreaded meeting new people. Fearful of rejection, he constructed his relationships so that a rebuff, if it came, would seem to have originated with him. Fiercely proud, he could neither admit his dependence on approbation nor transcend it. Deeply insecure, he first acted as if fate had singled him out for rejection and then he contrived to make sure that his premonition came to pass. None of us really knew the inner man. More significant, each member of his entourage was acquainted with a slightly...
...three doctors and the nurse described the events of September 6, 1980 very similarly, disagreeing only as to whether or not force was involved. Carol DiPietro, a recovery room nurse at BWH, said that the three doctors made sexual advances towards her at the party. When she tried to rebuff them they pinned her arms to her sides, pushed her out of the building and forced her into...
...though much less directly, and perhaps not by her own choice--seems to be appealing to similar feelings. She is the first CCA candidate not to win the endorsement of the city's tenants, a rebuff delivered at a late summer convention. Abt has promised not to vote against rent control. But she also told city tenants that "rent control may not be the best or only way to protect low and moderate income people," and said that many condominium purchasers who wanted only to own their own homes and had "injured no one" were being caught in "complicated regulations...