1.   The very architecture of the building rebuffs any attempt at hoopla.

2.   And the Alabama legislature also has rebuffed attempts to regulate the awards.

3.   A minister told them about how police officers from the precinct across the street blocked the church with their parked cars and rebuffed attempts to discuss neighborhood problems cordially.

4.   Across the years, he rebuffed eight attempts by Nixon to talk or meet, according to Nixon friends.

5.   But each attempt has been rebuffed.

6.   But last week, a federal judge rebuffed the attempt and sent the case back to state court.

7.   But that attempt was narrowly rebuffed this week by the Hesse legislature.

8.   Clinton said he rebuffed attempts to win Republican votes by toughening U.S. abortion-related curbs on funding for family planning clinics around the world.

9.   During a visit to the United States two months ago, Fujimori rebuffed an attempt by President Clinton to bring up the case.

10.   From there they rebuffed repeated attempts to dislodge them.