Word: rebuff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Blatt = slang noun of unknown origin, meaning rebuff, censure, Insult...
Speeches in the British Parliament by Premier Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Curzon plainly showed that Britain had received a rebuff from France and Belgium on her Ruhr policy, which was contained in her note to the Allies, the chief points of which are: Nothing can be proposed by Britain which contravenes the Treaty of Versailles; Germany's capacity to pay, fixed by an international commission of financial experts (as suggested in U. S. Secretary of State Hughes' New Haven speech), would be liable to revision at the hands of the Reparations Commission; Germany must agree to some form...
...movement to make Esperanto a world language for auxiliary international purposes received a rebuff from the Commission of International Coöperation, which had been invited to express its opinion on the question by the Assembly of the League of Nations...
...United States lay her chief source of expectation. It was here, and not in Germany, that she first looked for markets. She was willing to accede to France's requests while she could find commerce elsewhere than in the North Sea. But she met with a stern rebuff on this side of the Atlantic. The U. S. Transport "Leviathan," which England offered to purchase, is still rotting at its Hoboken dock because anti-British sentiment only to effectively blocked such a negotiation. Ships in Boston Harbor were prevented from taking on cargo for two months for the reason that they...
Some time ago, I noticed with pleasure the rebuff that you administered to a few men who called themselves reporters for the Boston daily papers...