1.   Both shunned the idea of higher taxes but did not completely rule out a tax increase.

2.   But others, like Taintor, shun the idea of billing by the hour.

3.   Even analysts who oppose a News Corp. deal shun the idea of a spinoff for the same reason.

4.   Goldman has long shunned the idea of setting up a traditional brokerage operation itself, preferring to concentrate its resources on wholesale investment banking and asset management.

5.   Not that they have shunned the idea of bright lights and big cities.

6.   That new union is unlikely to be large, because most of the former republics have shunned the idea whenever it is mentioned.

7.   Until now, the GOP has shunned Democratic ideas.

8.   APEC shuns the idea of a trade bloc in favor of trying to reduce barriers to investment and commerce in goods and services among members.

9.   But he shunned the idea of being formally linked to other less-developed former Yugoslav republics.