1.   As old age approaches, she spurns the proposal of a kind admirer, a man who values her intelligence.

2.   But the settlement proposal was spurned, the source said.

3.   Confident in the power of the steamboat, city decision-makers spurned the proposal of railroad tycoon Jay Gould to lay tracks in Jefferson and their fate was sealed.

4.   Congressional Republicans have spurned the proposal two years in a row and may do so again.

5.   The North spurned the proposal.

6.   The proposal was spurned.

7.   They warned that if one side spurned the proposal while the other accepted it, international sanctions would be revised to punish the holdout.

8.   A young man poured petrol over a girl and set her alight after she spurned his proposal of marriage, press reports said Friday.

9.   But the United States, the co-sponsor of the now-collapsed peace process along with Russia, immediately spurned the proposals.