Liz looked pained at the agent's sharp rebuff.

Colombia, the world's largest producer of cocaine, today suspended all aerial eradication of drug-producing crops in a sharp rebuff to the United States.

The attacks are grotesquely overstated and deserve a sharp rebuff when the issue comes to the floor of Congress this week.

In a sharp rebuff to Mr. Grosz, the delegates tonight approved an amended text of a statement that specifically rejected a Grosz proposal.

The decision was a sharp rebuff to Estonia and other republics seeking looser ties to Moscow.

Henchard shut up her argument with a sharp rebuff.

Carmichael's stand against interracial alliances met sharp rebuffs.

In a sharp rebuff to the founder of the Solidarity union, the lower house voted 314 to 18 with 40 abstentions to delay action on a draft electoral law.

Ivanov's 32 Rf4 was supposed to anticipate 32 . . . Rd2, but Petursson had the sharp rebuff 32 . . . Be5!

Benazir Bhutto, the Harvard-educated Prime Minister whose dismissal in November prompted the election, appeared to have suffered a sharp rebuff.