What's the difference between rebuff and repudiate?

Rebuff


Definition:

  • (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
  • (n.) Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
  • (v. t.) To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
  • (2) A few months after the arms deal rebuff the prime minster announced a review of the Brotherhood’s activities in the UK.
  • (3) The chancellor, George Osborne, welcomed the news as a “milestone for the British economy” that will ease the pressure on household budgets as he sought to rebuff fears that the UK could be headed towards “damaging deflation”.
  • (4) AstraZeneca's chairman, Leif Johansson, who spoke to Cameron after issuing the rebuff, said: "We are showing strong momentum as an independent company."
  • (5) The point may seem to be simply describing Shylock’s implacability – but the fact that it occurs as Shylock is using logic and reason to rebuff the noblemen creates a link between his capacity for debate and the idea of him as inhumane, beyond empathy.
  • (6) On Wednesday, the Obama administration issued a fresh rebuff through the US courts to an ACLU request for information about targeting policies.
  • (7) The strident tone was illustrated by a startling public rebuff to Barack Obama.
  • (8) Within those tight restrictions, the defence has limited room of manoeuvre in attempting to rebuff charges that carry a maximum sentence of at least 150 years in jail or in the case of "aiding the enemy" life in military custody with no chance of parole.
  • (9) My first priority is to get rid of Stephen Harper,” he said in response to the Liberal leader’s rebuff.
  • (10) The prime minister is still stung by his embarrassing rebuff in 2013 when he suffered an international diplomatic humiliation by failing to win the support of parliament for a bombing campaign designed to sanction Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people.
  • (11) In a tough statement yesterday, John McCain said the Nato rebuff to Georgia "might have been viewed as a green light by Russia for its attacks on Georgia.
  • (12) That the detonation occurred 50 miles from the Chinese border, and after months of Chinese efforts to rekindle talks with North Korea, is a serious rebuff.
  • (13) Tucker, though, rebuffs the suggestions that his fingerprints are all over the scandal.
  • (14) The US secretary of state, John Kerry, delivered a sharp rebuff to both Israeli demands and those of Israel’s Congressional supporters in the wake of the agreement.
  • (15) In a clear rebuff to politicians who have accused judges of inventing novel legal precedents without reference to parliament, Lord Judge welcomed the report and observed: "Contrary to some commentary, unelected judges in this country did not create privacy rights.
  • (16) The schools plan is the sugar coating to the NRA's tough tactics, designed to show the organisation in a more positive light and to rebuff accusations that it is dedicated to blocking reasonable reforms that would make America safer.
  • (17) The initial stay granted by the US appeals court for the eighth circuit had come as a strong rebuff to Missouri which for the past seven months has been pursuing an aggressive executions policy in which it has carried out a judicial killing every month and imposed a ring of secrecy around its supplies of lethal injection drugs.
  • (18) Fear of facing Tymoshenko in a 2015 presidential battle is believed to be one of the main reasons for the president's rebuff of the EU.
  • (19) The rebuff came as critics in Buenos Aires accused Argentina's government of playing the nationalist card to distract from mounting domestic woes.
  • (20) In a rebuff to coal, oil and gas companies, Rachel Kyte, the World Bank climate change envoy, said continued use of coal was exacting a heavy cost on some of the world’s poorest countries, in local health impacts as well as climate change, which is imposing even graver consequences on the developing world.

Repudiate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
  • (v. t.) To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus the data were unable to repudiate earlier evidence regarding the significance of the private fee-for-service framework in predicting affective behavior.
  • (2) The first official repudiation of Stalinism came in Nikita Khrushchev's now celebrated speech to a closed session of the 1956 Communist party congress.
  • (3) On Monday, Trump, who leads opinion polls in the race to be the Republican nominee for president in an election in November next year, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States , in comments widely repudiated by other US politicians.
  • (4) Both of which the Australian government is slowly but surely repudiating.
  • (5) And for a country founded on the repudiation of history, they were all, of course, obsessed with the weight of the past.
  • (6) The predictive values of gain or output may be inferred from current research and the Powell & Tucker paper confirms the previous work rather than repudiates it.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Thursday morning, Hilary Benn pays tribute to the RAF as UK airstrikes on Syria begin Unlike his father, Hilary did not repudiate the experience, though he is humble enough to acknowledge errors.
  • (8) Senators should insist that Comey explain his role during the Bush era and repudiate policies he endorsed on torture, indefinite detention, and illegal surveillance.
  • (9) Susan Collins announced she would not vote for Donald Trump on Monday, joining the few other Republican senators to repudiate the party’s nominee for president.
  • (10) Following weeks of angry internal debate about how to handle the issue, Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, on Friday issued a strongly worded complaint about "disturbing new tactics" and called on the Iranian government "to repudiate the actions of its officials".
  • (11) The Warner suit states: "Because of the repudiation, Warner has not entered into license agreements for online games and casino slot machines in connection with The Hobbit – a form of customary exploitation it previously had utilised in connection with the Lord of the Rings trilogy – which has harmed Warner both in the form of lost license revenue and also in decreased exposure for the Hobbit films."
  • (12) For these reasons we repudiate the view that organ sharing is now superfluous.
  • (13) For the primiparous, then infertile women because of hypopituitarism, the repudiation becomes often the only social way of life.
  • (14) On Tuesday he said he would issue an apology to the Chinese embassy and repudiate Palmer’s comments.
  • (15) This platform enabled us to win the confidence of the Greek people,” Varoufakis said, insisting that the logic of austerity had been repudiated by voters when the far-left Syriza party stormed to victory in Sunday’s election.
  • (16) 'An epochal change': what a Trump presidency means for the Asia Pacific region Read more Most explosive of all, the new US president has planted a trade war at the heart of his policies: a 45% tariff on imports from China and a repudiation of the Trans Pacific Partnership which was supposed to have been proof positive of America’s pivot to Asia.
  • (17) Medical personnel must carry out a whole complex of measures aimed at community involvement into dispensarization activities, promotion of population's readiness to follow doctor's indications and prescribed regimen and diet, to stick to a more active mode of life and to repudiate bad habits.
  • (18) The chances of the Greek public electing a government that repudiates the terms of the bailout is deemed to be high.
  • (19) In a calculated repudiation of the economic philosophy of Ed Miliband, who resigned in the wake of Labour’s devastating defeat at the polls last month, Leslie argues that during the election campaign the party failed to grasp the power of consumers.
  • (20) But some commentators regard Corbyn’s ascent and the defeat of “Blairite” candidates as a repudiation of his legacy and return to old Labour values.