Sentences with phrase «rebuffed overture»

Although the Catholic Church had bluntly rebuffed an overture to participate in the WCC gathering, the very fact that they were invited, together with the presence of Orthodox participants, not to say Protestant modernists, was enough for McIntyre to see the emergence of the one - world church of the last days foretold in the Book of Revelation.

(Next, Mylan wants to buy Ireland - based Perrigo (PRGO) to further transform itself from a generic prescription drug maker to a more diversified healthcare company, though Perrigo has so far rebuffed its overtures.)

Not exact matches

Stay quiet and listen and pay attention, and don't be hurt if your overtures are rebuffed the first time.

She immediately rebuffed George's overture, sources said, but didn't file a formal complaint, apparently because she was fearful of repercussions for complaining against her boss — one of five deputy chiefs in the Major Narcotics Investigation Bureau.

Charlie rebuffs this sentimental overture to focus on her comfort zone, the grim universe of American foreign policy, and the pilot fitfully sketches the outlines of an effective procedural.