Even as they rebuff some products, Japan's foreign customers are scrambling to get hold of others.
Lingering a while to see if the mojo returns, after such a rebuff, is fair enough.
Sources confirm cloud storage provider Box.net did in fact rebuff a buyout offer earlier this year.
Some of their deference may be a diplomatic reluctance to rebuff Mr Bush to his face.
It must rebuff US pressure to curtail IDF counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria.
Mr Albanese's decision to rebuff BHP Billiton's advances has also tarnished his dealmaking credentials.
Despite the rebuff, America has managed to weaken the treaty in many unfortunate ways.
Europe's most influential heads of state and governments would probably rebuff such an idea.
In other words, he is a standing rebuff to the entire concept of the separation of powers.
"You like me a lot more than you think you do, " she tells him after one rebuff.
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China's anger at this rebuff has contributed greatly to the worsening of relations between the two sides.
Yet the appointments appear less an intentional rebuff to the Fund than an indication of the 76-year-old leader's desperation.
There, a prickly instability, characteristic of his childhood, re-emerged, perhaps brought on by a rebuff from his landlady's daughter.
And he has again refused to involve third parties a rebuff to Pakistan, which insists that Kashmiris be involved too.
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Putin will now face the question of how to respond to the rebuff.
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Farooq's public appearances are a pointed rebuff to the militants, who don't share his enthusiasm for unity with India.
But his refusal to offer a premium earned a swift rebuff from Anglo.
America's negotiators did not rebuff the Africans' demands so much as refract them.
Following the latest rebuff from Blackpool, Scotland midfielder Adam handed in a transfer request to the Barclays Premier League club.
Some maintain, for example, that undue sensitivity has been accorded to the feelings of Muslims in deciding whom to rebuff.
The ouster of Wuffli is seen by many as a rebuff to Ospel, who had been grooming Wuffli as his successor.
To that end, it was interesting that a substantial part of his speech was a rebuff to Labour's attacks last week.
Consequently, the United States should firmly rebuff the latest Soviet negotiating gambit.
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Mr Jordan does not merely rebuff the odd question here and there.
Almost all commentators on the Swedish rejection of the euro interpreted the vote as a rebuff to the EU, not just its currency.
Consequently, the Center believes that the Bush Administration and Congress should continue to rebuff Soviet efforts to engage the United States in naval arms control negotiations.
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Muddying the investigators' trail, these outfits work from within tight-knit ethnic communities, rebuff outsiders and speak languages unfamiliar to Western ears, like Urdu, Arabic and Hindi.
But Bush brushed off questions about OPEC's decision being a rebuff to his administration, saying the ministers were reacting to what they saw as decreasing demand.
Then, as now, he implies that U.S. buy-in to the Kyoto Protocol was scotched by George W. Bush, with no mention of the U.S. Senate rebuff.
His comments come as a rebuff to the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, who has called for the UK to slow down its austerity programme.
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