• Ms Cobell returned to Washington and, after a brush-off from government lawyers, filed the suit.

    ECONOMIST: Justice for Indians

  • Besides, when Jonas asked to meet with AOL Chairman Steve Case, he got the brush-off.

    FORBES: Sound Idea

  • Besides, when Jonas asked to meet with AOL'sChairman Steve Case, he got the brush-off.

    FORBES: Sound Idea

  • This brush-off from the educational establishment speaks to a larger frustration with doing business at home.

    FORBES: Game Boy: Billionaire William Ding Lei Has A Few Fantasies Of His Own

  • At one point, he called Democratic committee member John Kerry to apologize for a staff member's brush-off.

    CNN: McCain's Big Deal

  • When Igor Ivanov, chief of Mr Putin's national security council, took Russia's compromise to Tehran a week ago, he also got a public brush-off.

    ECONOMIST: Will Russia help, or just get in the way?

  • Even though the immediate row over the penal code has been resolved, advocates of Turkey's EU membership have had a shock their biggest since 1997, when a brush-off from EU leaders provoked fury in Ankara.

    ECONOMIST: Will Turkey accept Europe? | The

  • The Supreme Court is expected to uphold that brush-off, and the big question is whether it will do so in a way that eliminates forever dubious patents like the infamous government monopoly Amazon.com obtained on one-click purchases.

    FORBES: Bilski May Take Down Business Method Patents With Him

  • The TRF said it was a respectable group being tarred with the same brush as off-piste "hoodlums" over its desire to use unsurfaced Peak District lanes.

    BBC: Protest riders in the Peak District

  • Alexandre Tombini, the affable central banker from Brazil, tried to brush off long-term concerns when I asked if the president's economic team was behind the curve when it repeatedly slashed interest rates to combat a slow-down.

    CNN: Defterios: Are the emerging 'BRICS' markets dead?

  • Flip the card over to the Chinese side and the logo changes to a panda fishing off a Chinese brush-stroke moon painted red.

    WSJ: Katzenberg Unveils China Film Project

  • She said the department was working with charities on targeted health promotion campaigns rather than a more "generic broad-brush approach that may be off message for these groups".

    BBC: NEWS | Health | More gay men having 'risky sex'

  • The country has to choose whether it wants to rebuild the levees and destroyed communities, with no expense spared for the future - or once again brush off that responsibility, and blame the other guy.

    BBC: Downtown New Orleans, near the Superdome

  • Rather than adopting broad-brush regulations that place ISP practices that may benefit consumers off limits, the FCC could adopt a simple rule prohibiting ISPs from engaging in practices that constitute an abuse of significant and non-transitory market power that harm consumers.

    FORBES

  • They fret that tradition-minded voters are left perplexed, if not outraged, both by the goings-on and the high-handed way in which the government and its friends seems to brush them off.

    ECONOMIST: Sarkozy and morality

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