Will a few snubs from abroad, and an occasional rebuke, count for much with Mr Putin and his generals?

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The Welsh Conservatives say the budget "snubs" the health service and Plaid Cymru want more help for the economy.

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In the process of seducing a comely scientist, Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), Tony snubs another scientist, Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce).

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Sensing a potential diplomatic setback in all the campaign snubs to foreign press, the U.S. State Department has stepped in to help.

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If Europe snubs the IMF, it may eventually need to set up a clone a European Monetary Fund to deal with future funding crises.

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But, in the light of Mr Karzai's serial snubs to his American paymasters, some worry he might be preparing to ditch them for the sake of a deal with Islamabad.

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The Academy Award nominees were announced this morning, and they include a lot of predictable nominees, especially in the Best Picture category, but some fans will be shocked by several glaring snubs.

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Management routinely snubs shareholders, analysts and reporters.

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Over tea in the club's hushed library, under a portrait of the Marquis of Donegal (commodore, 1847--48), historian and former commodore Maldwin Drummond says such snubs were dangerous in an age when yachts carried real cannons.

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