1.   After Germany rebuffed his claim, he retained an American lawyer, Steven Perles, and tried to win reparations through diplomatic channels.

2.   The US Justice Department rebuffed these claims, and Kerber notes that conscription laws had long stood up against a range of constitutional challenges.

3.   He also rebuffed claims that rat genes had been introduced into the fish and said only other salmon genes and a gene from ocean perch had been used.

4.   Saudi Arabia has repeatedly rebuffed such claims as an attack on the Muslim faith.

5.   The claims were rebuffed.

6.   The vote rebuffs claims from some European member of parliament that the planned ban is legally unsound.

7.   Australia and New Zealand on Monday sharply rebuffed claims by French President Jacques Chirac that their anti-nuclear protests aimed to force France out of the Pacific.

8.   But health authorities have rebuffed claims they are trying to save costs by not administering separate injections.