• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Liverpool looked devoid of ideas and desire, although Birmingham were failing to make their superiority count with Scott Dann seeing a free header bounce over as the Midlands side spurned another chance.

    BBC: Birmingham 0-0 Liverpool

  • Fourth-placed Malaga spurned the chance to close the gap on Real after drawing 1-1 with Real Zaragoza, but Betis stayed a point behind in fifth after Diego Costa's 61st-minute winner for Atletico.

    CNN: Messi and Balotelli spot on

  • Full-back Lloyd Doyley caused problems with a surging run into the area before the Hornets player of the season Danny Graham spurned a golden opportunity, heading wide when unmarked at the near post.

    BBC: Watford 0-2 QPR

  • Or banks may have spurned the auction because they were afraid that the market might find out who had borrowed: if so, they clearly did not need it badly enough to risk shame.

    ECONOMIST: CSI: credit crunch | The

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