1.   And some European historians who have worked on slave-labor issues, for example, have rebuffed efforts by lawyers from the United States seeking alliances with them.

2.   Bayer said Staat is taking her case to the Texas Commission on Human Rights because the Senate has rebuffed her efforts to win reinstatement or a settlement package.

3.   Both Bell and the Department of Defense have rebuffed his efforts to obtain documents relevant to the case, he said.

4.   A circuit judge rebuffed the effort Friday.

5.   But even Jackie rebuffed efforts to change her clothes before that historic snapshot of Johnson taking the oath of office.

6.   But like other immigrant and ethnic groups before them, Muslim Americans have seen their efforts rebuffed, resisted and blocked by the groups that came before them.

7.   But Tempe officials grew increasingly impatient after Phoenix rebuffed efforts to meet with all the participants or agree to mediation.

8.   But those efforts were rebuffed by Becton who did not favor a staggered start for a school year in which new academic standards are being put into place.

9.   But those efforts were rebuffed, and he was threatened with death, he said.

10.   Coloradans rejected a proposal to give tax credits for private school tuition, and South Dakotans rebuffed an effort to stop financing schools with property taxes.