21.   Symington has been pushing some or all of those proposals in the Legislature, but his efforts have been rebuffed.

22.   The department rebuffed efforts by advocates for civil rights, Hispanic Americans and homeless people to have representatives on the committee.

23.   The department adopted the new specifications after a federal judge rebuffed its efforts to implement random tests for salmonella at a Texas meat-processing plant.

24.   This has successfully rebuffed efforts by competitors to regain their market share, the company said.

25.   Those provisions have not been widely used, and some enforcement efforts have been rebuffed by courts.

26.   When his efforts to register at Harvard and MIT are rebuffed, the counselors help him to enroll at a small community college.

27.   When the Democrats controlled the FCC, they rebuffed repeated efforts to loosen the rules.

28.   While in office, Bissell guarded these records closely and routinely rebuffed efforts by one Somerset County citizen, John Paff, to inspect them.

29.   Worse, his friendship with Sarah and Harry grows increasingly strained as Sarah rebuffs his efforts to get her to let go of her grief and rejoin the world.

30.   Yeltsin aides complain privately that it is the president himself who refuses to allow public discussion of his health and rebuffs their efforts to shed light on his condition.