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In 1998, the adherence to a modest Jewish ritual such as celebrating Hanukkah follows in the tradition of the ancient Israelites, who spurned the pressures to adopt Hellenism.
A Royal Commission on the Arts and Letters was spurned by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as a futile body for “subsidizing ballet dancers.”
"In matters of international relations, the United States is one nation," said House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as he spurned reporters' questions on l'affaire Lewinsky two weeks ago.
The Democratic Party spurned Mississippi's "Freedom Party" delegation, seating a bloc of segregationist whites instead.
In the New Republic , Tony Judt calls Sidney Blumenthal's claim in The New Yorker that Whittaker Chambers attacked Alger Hiss because of spurned gay love "a smear, 1990s style.