Even as they rebuff some products, Japan's foreign customers are scrambling to get hold of others.
Lingering a while to see if the mojo returns, after such a rebuff, is fair enough.
Sources confirm cloud storage provider Box.net did in fact rebuff a buyout offer earlier this year.
Some of their deference may be a diplomatic reluctance to rebuff Mr Bush to his face.
Mr Albanese's decision to rebuff BHP Billiton's advances has also tarnished his dealmaking credentials.
Europe's most influential heads of state and governments would probably rebuff such an idea.
In other words, he is a standing rebuff to the entire concept of the separation of powers.
"You like me a lot more than you think you do, " she tells him after one rebuff.
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There, a prickly instability, characteristic of his childhood, re-emerged, perhaps brought on by a rebuff from his landlady's daughter.
Putin will now face the question of how to respond to the rebuff.
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But his refusal to offer a premium earned a swift rebuff from Anglo.
America's negotiators did not rebuff the Africans' demands so much as refract them.
Following the latest rebuff from Blackpool, Scotland midfielder Adam handed in a transfer request to the Barclays Premier League club.
Some maintain, for example, that undue sensitivity has been accorded to the feelings of Muslims in deciding whom to rebuff.
The ouster of Wuffli is seen by many as a rebuff to Ospel, who had been grooming Wuffli as his successor.
To that end, it was interesting that a substantial part of his speech was a rebuff to Labour's attacks last week.
Mr Jordan does not merely rebuff the odd question here and there.
Almost all commentators on the Swedish rejection of the euro interpreted the vote as a rebuff to the EU, not just its currency.
Muddying the investigators' trail, these outfits work from within tight-knit ethnic communities, rebuff outsiders and speak languages unfamiliar to Western ears, like Urdu, Arabic and Hindi.
But Bush brushed off questions about OPEC's decision being a rebuff to his administration, saying the ministers were reacting to what they saw as decreasing demand.
His comments come as a rebuff to the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, who has called for the UK to slow down its austerity programme.
Easley sought to fight off Ballantine's criticism and rebuff a GOP sweep across the South that had already overturned governorships in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi.
But the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines seemed genuinely shocked at the rebuff they received on July 19th from Hun Sen, the boss of Cambodia.
And this rebuff came only a couple months after I had to watch my wife my scroll the length of the Torah to get through her Facebook birthday wishes.
But some senior figures in the assembly say the rebuff over police panels may have much larger implications for the way the system of commissioners can now work in Wales.
Though Bush appeared on television just a handful of hours later to rebuff Gore's entreaties, it would be very difficult for the vice president to go back on his word.
If Mr Asmussen reflects the view of the ECB board as a whole, his response is a slap in the face to Greece and a rebuff to the IMF as well.
Grachev's disdain for Secretary Perry -- and the American administration he represents -- could only have been further intensified by the Bakeresque concessions proferred in the face of such a wholesale rebuff.
The European Union, the other major body seeking observer status, had its application affirmed but "deferred, " a rebuff that is likely related to an unresolved dispute with Canada over the fur seal trade.
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