Word: rebuff
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...meeting with representatives of the Undergraduate Council, search committee members rebuff a request for increased student input in the decision-making process...
...charge of murder, however, is particularly sensitive, since it is universally regarded as among the worst of crimes. In 1989 the U.S. received a rare rebuff from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Jens Soering, who was arrested in Britain after murdering his girlfriend's parents in Virginia in 1985. Eventually 18 Court of Human Rights judges unanimously upheld Soering's claim that his extradition would breach the European Convention on Human Rights, which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment." The judges felt that the prohibition would apply to any circumstances in which Soering might be found...
...stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room kill, and do it all with a hard smirk. Roy hardly stands a chance with Lilly. He can rebuff her seductions, but he can't duck her wrath...
Warning of an "alarming trend," CBS sportscaster Lesley Visser drew national attention to another reporter-player clash: a summer rebuff of Detroit Free Press reporter Jennifer Frey by Detroit Tigers pitcher Jack Morris when she requested an interview. Said Morris: "I don't talk to women when I am naked unless they are on top of me or I am on top of them." Tigers . president Bo Schembechler admitted that Morris' comments were out of line, but said in a letter to the paper that sending a woman into the locker room showed a "lack of common sense...
...those who have never lived there, it must be difficult to understand just how important is the International Olympic Committee's decision to rebuff Athens and hold the centennial of the modern Olympic Games in Atlanta...