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It described the U.S. failure to exempt its citizens and soldiers from the court's jurisdiction as "a stinging diplomatic rebuff."
A rebuff to President Clinton by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdallah at the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan last week was heralded in the Saudi press Thursday as evidence that the country wasn't a pawn or a puppet of the United States.
Is it churlish to rebuff praise?
The Court's decision to return the Lewinsky case issues of attorney-client and protective privilege back to the regular appeals court process is generally taken as a rebuff for Starr's contention that these matters pose a constitutional crisis of the first magnitude.
They don't really answer the questioner's questions, and they don't bother to rebuff each other's lame parries.