• As the spurned hero, Mr Fiennes stomps off in his army boots, sleeps rough and plots revenge.

    ECONOMIST: New film

  • The spurned suitor won't have a lot of options, but its CEO may yet salvage some value for his shareholders.

    FORBES: Call It Quits, Qwest

  • It was a puzzle to the Glasgow fans why the officials spurned the chance to refer the incident to the video ref.

    BBC: Glasgow 11-11 Munster

  • The Albanians spurned the offer, apparently because the terms were unattractive.

    ECONOMIST: Albania

  • The most sensible of the carmakers has spurned the consolidation game.

    ECONOMIST: The global car industry

  • "A long time ago the city fathers spurned the railroads because they already had such great river commerce, " says Richard Fleming, chief executive of the St.

    FORBES: Yes, there is a pulse

  • Agassi showed his class to break Henman again, and in the tie-break the Briton spurned four match points before the American held his nerve to seal the match.

    BBC: Henman upbeat after Agassi escapes

  • The Chinese snubbed him at the Copenhagen climate summit, the Iranians spurned his hand and much of the goodwill he earned in the Muslim world after his Cairo speech has evaporated during the subsequent year of stalemate in Palestine.

    ECONOMIST: American power

  • Morne Steyn finally levelled the scores on 36 minutes following an England infringement at the ruck, but the fly-half spurned the opportunity to take a three-point lead at the interval when he uncharacteristically dragged a 25m drop-kick attempt wide of the posts.

    BBC: England 11-21 South Africa

  • The hosts spurned another kickable penalty to go for a close-range lineout and their gamble paid off when the ball was spread right for teenage full-back Fish to touchdown in the opposite corner.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 38-6 Glasgow

  • The equity markets in the developed world are spurned by the general public and are on the back foot.

    FORBES: Five Stocks To Buy For 'Bond-ageddon'

  • As the half wore on Worcester gained the upper hand with Dale Rasmussen being held up over the line before the visitors spurned a kickable penalty.

    BBC: Wasps 10-11 Worcester

  • The 29-year-old, who has won 21 caps as a centre for Wales, left the Scarlets at the end of last season and spurned the chance to rejoin the region.

    BBC: SPORT | Rugby Union | Welsh | Wales centre Davies joins Ospreys

  • For the All-American from Hawaii, who spurned the beaches of California in favor of the frozen fields of Indiana, winning a championship was the reason he came back to South Bend.

    CNN: 'Go Irish' vs. 'Roll Tide'

  • Incredibly, back in 1995, when the GOP took over both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years, Republicans spurned the opportunity to reform tax-scoring methods at the Congressional Budget Office, fearing that brighter revenue estimates would undermine their efforts to reduce spending.

    FORBES: PHONY NUMBER

  • The Turks, for their part, insisted that they had made good-faith efforts to achieve a peace settlement (they and their ethnic kin in Cyprus had accepted a UN-sponsored plan to reunify the island but it was spurned by the Greek-Cypriots earlier this year).

    ECONOMIST: A date with Turkey | The

  • Yet the greatest hurdle of all is the fierce competition that has been spurned by the glut of investments over the last few years.

    FORBES: The Growing Pains of Indian E-Commerce: What You Need to Know

  • Already the broadcaster has spurned an advance from privately owned Five, preferring to marry the BBC's hugely profitable commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.

    ECONOMIST: Public-service broadcasting

  • Stark's arrogance and narcissism come back to haunt him in the form of spurned entrepreneur Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) and a larger-than-life terror-monger by the name of "The Mandarin" (Ben Kingsley).

    CNN: Review: 'Iron Man 3' a sweetly calibrated blockbuster

  • Yes, the Chinese have also spurned America's quixotic effort to herd the gangs of anti-Semitic, anti-American oil-dependent felines at the United Nations to undertake an effective program of economic sanctions against Iran.

    WSJ: George Gilder: Why Antagonize China?

  • Goode converted but spurned the chance to extend the lead when he missed two kickable penalties.

    BBC: England 36-11 Italy

  • Argentina, Venezuela and Ecuador have spurned the prudence of their neighbours and antagonised investors.

    ECONOMIST: Latin America's economies

  • Mr Hun Sen, however, spurned the idea and his supporters began attacking the monarchy.

    ECONOMIST: Cambodia

  • Even game developers who once spurned the Wii have reversed course and are now pumping out Wii titles.

    FORBES: How Grand Theft Auto IV Threatens The Wii

  • EU's biggest country, consistently show that its voters would have spurned the euro.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne: In defence of Romano Prodi | The

  • PeopleSoft's directors spurned the bid, arguing that most of the shareholders continue to believe that the firm is more valuable.

    ECONOMIST: Will Leo Strine re-engineer takeover law in America?

  • In Italy, Lazio spurned the chance to leapfrog AC Milan into third place after they went down to a shock 3-0 defeat at Siena .

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Meanwhile, Saunders and Gavin revealed they had spurned the advances of promoters across the globe to sign with Warren, who has been Britain's biggest promoter since the 1990s.

    BBC: Olympic champion DeGale turns pro

  • On September 15th, the county clubs spurned his final proposals.

    ECONOMIST: Dead bat

  • But Jones, I think, would have spurned the savage goings-on at the climax, where torsos are blown in half and knives are tugged free from flesh with a sucking sound.

    NEWYORKER: The Evil That Men Do

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