1.   Austrian authorities cited his shoplifting conviction and spurned his request.

2.   But it has spurned requests from historians and journalists for access to wartime documents, saying it is bound by strict secrecy laws.

3.   Cardenas spurned a request to step down to help defeat the governing party.

4.   In his first confrontation with Republican moderates, House Speaker Dennis Hastert has spurned their request for an early vote on campaign finance legislation.

5.   It has spurned requests to film bar mitzvahs and weddings, but once mulled paid promotional work for a presidential run by Jack Kemp, the former quarterback.

6.   Messinger has argued that in spurning the request, the mayor showed he did not care about the public schools.

7.   Unilever has continued to press the Bestfoods board to hold talks, though those requests have been spurned.

8.   Jeffords told reporters that he spurned the request.

9.   Marco Polo editor Kazuyoshi Hanada, who had originally defended the article, was not present at the news conference and Tanaka spurned requests for more comment from him.

10.   But most militants spurned the request and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee withdrew the ceasefire after six months.