Word: rebuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rally began in earnest in Brussels, it was treated to a shower of ice water from Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, who set the meeting back on its heels by suddenly refusing a long-prepared deal offering Moscow a special relationship with NATO in coordinating European security. Kozyrev's rebuff might have been meant to fend off nationalists at home, but its timing suggested that lessons from the Bosnia debacle were taken into account...
Virginia needs to rebuff North's attempt to reenter the circles of government. He was fortunate enough to avoid prison time for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal; his reputation outside of his media-saturated state still reeks of duplicity. Certainly Virginia has nothing to gain on a national level by electing North. The state would go from "Home of Presidents" to "Home of Guns-for-Hostages...
...every gay success, there is a countervailing setback. For every invitation, there is a rebuff. If the view over the past quarter-century suggests that gay progress is inevitable, the picture today suggests that gays may instead be, as their opponents argue, a unique case rather than just another minority group. Far from continuing toward inclusion, gays may already be bumping up against the limits of tolerance. When Americans were polled by TIME/CNN last week, about 65% thought homosexual rights were being paid too much attention. Strikingly, those who described homosexuality as morally wrong made up exactly the same proportion...
...outside of China. It could also seek a multi-lateral reproach of China by raising the issue of human rights before the U.N With the creation of Radio Free Asia and its removal of a cap on arms sales to Taiwan, the U.S. has already taken measures to rebuff China for its recent human rights abuses. Denying China its MFN status in addition to these politically punitive actions would be an excessive measure that would probably worsen Sino-American relations, and threaten free trade...
...however, is that effective control of Clinton's economic plan has now passed from the White House to Washington's army of special interests. The dismemberment of his energy tax is a case study in how difficult it has been for Clinton to make good on his pledge to rebuff those diverse interests in favor of the larger good...