Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House's administrator for the Agency for International Development. Says he: "It looks to us as though it may well be a situation of moving starving people from one point to another point, where they will just starve in a new location." McPherson's assessment has drawn a stinging rebuff from the Ethiopians. In Washington, Charge d'Affaires Tamene Eshete accused resettlement critics of attempting to "perpetuate starvation" in his country. The northern provinces, Eshete said, are "totally barren," and "there is no point in keeping those people there...
...have decided to wait out the U.S. elections. The President has so angered the Soviets that even his occasional efforts at accommodation-toning down his anti-Soviet rhetoric, accepting a Soviet proposal for a ban on the use of force in Europe-have met with a cold rebuff. Says Radomir Bogdanov of Moscow's Institute for U.S.A. and Canada Studies: "Our relations are at the lowest point since World War II, and what is very disturbing is that a kind of hopelessness is setting in, a feeling here that it is impossible to improve relations with these people...
...preceding weeks, quickly breaking up the demonstrations with tear gas, truncheons and water cannons. The government also sought to deny a permit for the August Twenty-One Commemoration Committee demonstration, arguing that it would be used by subversive elements for an assault on the President. In a rare rebuff to Marcos, the Supreme Court ruled that the rally should be permitted...
...political choices to cast ballots in their country's most open and fraud-free elections in more than a decade. In the race for a new 88-seat Constituent Assembly, citizens gave a strong show of of support to moderate civilian political parties and issued a sharp rebuff to the 8 military and the landowning oligarchy that have ruled the country since a CIA-backed coup...
...kept Richard Nixon at the center of our political life for nearly 40 years. Even today he runs a kind of shadow presidency that speaks with the tempering that has come from defeat after defeat but still endures, urging the likes of Shultz to come back stronger after each rebuff...