Conservative clerics have successfully rebuffed attempts to outlaw child marriage.

The transit workers thus continued in the tradition of a long string of New York City unions, including the police and District Council 37, that have successfully rebuffed efforts of mayors and M.T.A. heads to secure productivity increases.

Now that London has successfully rebuffed the bid, its shareholders have expressed willingness to revisit the share-ownership limit.

Some unions have successfully rebuffed concessions - G.E.'s two main unions beat back the company's demand that they pay 30 percent of health-care costs, up from the current 18 percent.

Having successfully rebuffed Chelsea's "ridiculous" £22 million offer for Luka Modric and assured everyone that he had absolutely no intention of ever selling the midfielder, Harry Redknapp and his family likely celebrated the way they celebrate most triumphs: by playing Wii.

As yet this seems not to have been a frequent occurrence and the request was successfully rebuffed by some abbots of religious houses which did not own the king as patron, but a door had been opened which subsequent monarchs were to push far wider.

Despite these shifting mores, pageant officials have successfully rebuffed efforts to play down what some consider an outdated competition.

Several years ago, a police officer was killed during an offensive that was successfully rebuffed by the inmates.

The most pressing demands of the affiliated unions, including reforming the continuing Tory-derived legislation governing industrial action and a rejection of using private companies in the public sector, were successfully rebuffed by the Brown leadership.

Working with Talia al Ghul, he recruits many supervillains for the Society... and is rejected and successfully rebuffed by Catman.