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Перевод: rebuff

[существительное]
отпор ; резкий отказ; неудача (неожиданная) ;
[глагол]
давать отпор; резко отказывать; отказывать наотрез; отражать атаку

Тезаурус:

1. Struggling to survive the discouragement of another rebuff, Vincent walked on foot from the Borinage to Brussels to plead his case with the Reverend Pietersen, one of the more sympathetic members of the committee which had just sacked him.
2. To friends and lovers he always made it clear that he was a Jew, perhaps to anticipate and reject the rebuff.
3. It acted as both a challenge and a rebuff.
4. Like many a mother faced with the apparent intransigence of her child, she ignored the rebuff and gave the servants the best advice any of us could receive: "Do whatever he tells you" (John 2.5).
5. Clarke risks rebuff by non-TUC union.
6. In a famous episode in February 1985, Oxford University congregation voted by a 3 to 1 majority to deny the Prime Minister an honorary degree, a rebuff previously extended only to the late President Bhutto of Pakistan.
7. THE LABOUR leadership suffered an embarrassing rebuff when lesbian and gay rights activists won a conference endorsement of their demand for cutting the age of homosexual consent from 21 to 16.
8. The latest rebuff to the manufacturers of substitutes for breast milk came in a rare secret session of the WHO's executive board.
9. The rebuff is that, having painstakingly laid a firm foundation, I must, in all honesty, now kick part of it away by revealing that certain misguided authors and publishers (especially the latter) have unscrupulously omitted all the data we require, printing books without dates or any reference to previous editions.
10. When the FA protested, they received a splendid rebuff to the effect that the PFA could not be expected "to regard seriously the opinion that a football player forfeits a common legal right on entering into a professional engagement with a football club".
11. In a further rebuff to the British position, the underlying theme of a "federal vocation", carrying forward the "federal goal" of the Luxembourg draft Treaty, underpinned the Dutch proposals.
12. Athey rebuff
13. THE DEPARTMENT of Industry recently risked rebuff and organised a teach-in for the press on fibre-optic technology.