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Sentence Examples This body has power to suspend and dismiss public servants where there has been misconduct or a breach of duty. It's almost too good to be true and cynics may dismiss this fine album as mere easy listening but that would be wrong. I pretend that nothing fazes me and I outrightly dismiss those things I cannot understand. It's tempting to dismiss them altogether as pushovers, but I also sympathize with their outsider pathos. The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture. Khamenei reacted with the barely disguised threat to dissolve parliament or dismiss the government. Even without such resistance, a little flexibility proved useless, since managers wanting to cut costs were not allowed to dismiss workers. In some cases, the only effective way of safeguarding the employee would be to dismiss or demote him. Nor did they dismiss his dream of making his living in film, perhaps as a special effects nerd. I hope that people who know me will dismiss it as nonsense, but people have a tendency to think there's no smoke without fire. It is unperceptive of you to dismiss the Surgeon General's comments about Descartes. I don't quite understand it when people dismiss slash as purely fan fantasy. Privately, some government officials dismiss the reaction as bluster, exaggerating the impact to win a better deal for the company. I didn't think it was all that good, but before you dismiss me as an uncultured ingrate, I must make my past experience clear. Defendants file massive summary judgment motions, seeking to dismiss every claim on various grounds. So, don't dismiss tennis as a sport for hot Russian babes and upper-class twits only. Factory owners regularly oblige overtime hours, pregnancy tests, dismiss and blacklist workers suspected of union organizing. Six months after the launch, the board made the decision to dismiss the staff, close our virtual doors, and monetize the assets. The secretary summed it all up in the minutes of the meeting, after the vote to dismiss him had been passed. Although Paul minimises the importance of athletic training, he does not dismiss it as worthless. Show More Sentences On the other hand pious people often have little respect for what they dismiss as milk-and-water values like kindness and compassion. The trend to emphasize the autonomy of form and dismiss subject matter was sharply criticized by the art historian. It's tempting to dismiss cliquishness as a relic from high school, along with midterms, lockers, and prom dates. No thoughtful reader today would dismiss them as predominantly insipid or expressing nothing beyond a contemporary middlebrow understanding. It will no longer be possible to dismiss tourism, to view tourists as a threat to be managed. And it cuts us to the bone when people dismiss our musings as the products of ego and petty hatreds. I hope you will consider the use and practice of non-violence in a more creative and positive way, rather than dismiss it as mere idealism. It made it harder for his sympathisers to dismiss the whole thorny question. Even more horrifying was the realization that I could not dismiss The Passion as a second-rate film. Many Britons dismiss these reservations with a snooty disregard, and tend to make barbed remarks about pampered children and bad leisurewear. I don't want to dismiss the social code entirely, but any true medical fears from backwash are utterly overrated. For his efforts, he often gets tagged with labels that would dismiss him as a left-wing nut or an unpatriotic freak! If you do not agree with it, by all means dismiss it from your consideration, but attend to me on the law. True believers dismiss this significant part of the population as Luddites. You should be careful of people's deeply felt grief and sense of loss before you dismiss them as selfish cynics. Many council officials also dismiss the idea of moving people indoors as completely impractical, because of the numbers and logistics involved. If that doesn't work, he will simply dismiss criticism with an arrogant shrug. At first glance, it might be tempting to dismiss this fear of blindness as hypochondria and leave it at that. People will either find the film endearing and moving or dismiss it as a sappy mess about a couple of old goats getting it on. One is inclined to dismiss all this as product of institutional delusion or bureaucratic make-work. Show More Sentences But to dismiss it as a squashed minivan or tall wagon does not do it justice. It is easy to dismiss terrorist bombings in far away countries as being unimportant to us. Not to disenfranchise rich people who live in nice places, but in previous decades we'd dismiss somebody like Smiley as a limousine liberal. The final line of defence is to question the priorities of those who continue to raise Iraq, and dismiss the issue as a bore. If anything, he was inclined to dismiss monetary policy as the weak sister of economic stimulus. It's easy to dismiss the jingoists, the English-only paranoiacs, the self-appointed culture police. One can disdain the cult of personality, but one cannot dismiss the look of radiant delight on her friends' faces as they cluster around her. Once we give permanent status it ought not take an act of Congress in order to dismiss a teacher that is ineffective. A rap over the knuckles that the government can choose to dismiss if it wants. I will dismiss the claim of the claimants for a declaration to the opposite effect. The traveller ordered them to dismiss and went on his way, hoping that his luck would shine on him even more cheerfully. It is easy to dismiss Ivanov, alongside Chekhov's other plays, as being full of melancholy middle class moaners who need a kick up the backside. Today, if I was the president, I would dismiss the coach and line the players up against a wall and give them all a kick up the backside. When asked about the recent hoopla surrounding gay marriage, he barely musters enough interest to dismiss the conversation. It would be easy to dismiss Elizabeth as a weak woman who should know better than to put up with her husband's bullying and violence. Readers may be tempted to dismiss such reflections as a reactionary tirade against popular government. This, after all, is the man who can praise public service workers to the skies and then, almost in the next breath, dismiss them as wreckers. Loyalists are likely to dismiss the criticisms as a familiar refrain from opponents who have never come to terms with his leadership. We can dismiss the pre-scientific belief in the magical powers of crystals and gemstones as due to the lack of scientific knowledge. Peremptory challenges allow a lawyer to dismiss a small number of potential jurors from the jury pool without giving a reason. Show More Sentences But to dismiss what he now alleges is to ignore the overwhelming evidence that what he says is true. The Appeals Chamber may dismiss the appeal, or acquit the appellant, or order that the accused be retried, or change the sentence. Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply dismiss them in their absence. Any users who get the unexpected prompt may dismiss the dialogue box and continue working. We had been schooled to dismiss them as being objects of religion, ritual and superstition. While one can dismiss much work at a glance as amateurish or badly crafted, that is not the case for this mark. It would provide ammunition to those who want to dismiss or minimize genuine antisemitic acts. Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal. There is no track record for Cadillac's XLR two-seater, which makes it easy to dismiss as a reskinned Corvette. Easy as it would be to dismiss them as fools or worse, they are not the dregs of society but instead the wrong people in the wrong circumstance. Those who advocate corporate dominion over broadband services dismiss the notion that consumer choice will be curtailed. The Council also has the power to oversee the Leader's work and to dismiss him if he fails to perform his duties properly. But to dismiss them without scientific inquiry would be to dogmatise science, and label as heresy any challenge thrown at it. There's a certain subset of opera fans who dismiss Rossini comic operas with a haughty wave. Thus, he cannot present himself as a champion of democracy and at the same time adhere to the position of those who dismiss it. Hey, don't dismiss it as another horror film with a bit of spooky stuff, a gory hand, a falling chandelier. For someone in such a high position to dismiss and discount this argument is really worrying. Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply to write off the missing soldiers and dismiss them in their absence. They dismiss this week's language problem as a storm in a Westminster village teacup. It is hard to dismiss the image of him at the opening of the parliament last May taking the oath with his fist clenched, a study in defiance. Show More Sentences Let's quickly dismiss the heretical view that the elections are about local and European issues. Today we tend to dismiss the moralizing of the late Victorians who insisted that the unemployed were lazy, intemperate, or thriftless. Too many trainers dismiss stretching as something done by weekend toners, not hardcore bodybuilders. There's no way I'd dismiss them on the strength of yesterday's performance. One cannot dismiss it as a casual remark from a man who spent two decades in this field of management. There was still no law against Protestantism but Mary was using her headship of the church to dismiss married clerics. Mind you, when you get too old then they will dismiss everything you say because they think you're senile. The temptation then is to defer to modern science and dismiss ancient pedigrees as old wives' tales. I would also ask her to listen carefully, and not to dismiss you with derogatory remarks. Nor can supporters of the free market dismiss these enduring economic problems, and blame them on a lack of free enterprise. I don't offhand dismiss speculation that this is all a neoconservative plot to privatize Iraqi art. Even those who dismiss the music and its lyrics as mere jump-and-wave doggerel should note that Garlin is not merely a spectacular crowd-pleaser. The traditional approach to this difficulty is to dismiss epideictic oratory as irrelevant and gratuitous display. Right, well, I am left with no option but to dismiss you forthwith and to insist on your immediate deportation. And it's easy enough to dismiss the blue-rinse ladies who mourn the passing of the queen mother. The knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss such training as faddish and of dubious value. Just because you feel passionately about something does not give you the right to dismiss your opponent as immoral. We do tend to dismiss offhand such phenomena as human artifacts, and because of good theoretical and inductive preconceptions. You might dismiss them as hangovers of the past, doomed to early extinction. Ruth would have felt the need to cap the comment in some way, or qualify it, or even dismiss it out of hand as arrant nonsense. Show More Sentences Regardless, don't dismiss weightlifting as a sport for Vikings and East German women only. I think you are lucky that you were brought up in regional Australia because you cannot dismiss it out of hand. The court of appeal may dismiss the appeal, quash the judgment, or request a retrial by a trial court. If you've been foolhardy enough to dismiss the series as lady-fodder, let FHM enlighten you. Disagree with me by all means, dear reader, but don't dismiss me out of hand. Some foodies readily dismiss the taco as either mundane or common or even both. It would be a little rash to dismiss Bragg and his Terminals as just another troupe of pop-sensitive, heart-on-sleeve folkies. It would be easy to dismiss this six-piece Glasgow band as mere Belle And Sebastian copyists. With this, he appeared to dismiss out of hand the potential numismatic and heritage interest of any coins and bullion that might be recovered. He does not dismiss or belittle the gifts and talents that his Creator endowed to him. If you belittle their opinions or dismiss their problems, they'll stop talking to you. But you have no right simply to dismiss it as irrelevant or beneath your dignity. Before you dismiss me as a vinous elitist with more dosh than brain cells, let me ask you a couple of questions. These viceroys have in fact twice in the last century exercised their vice-regal powers to dismiss elected governments! He scowled into the middle distance, and Edgar wondered if he shouldn't be taking this opportunity to dismiss himself. That December, however, the university president notified the professor of her intent to dismiss him. If that were so, it would be tempting to dismiss these poems as mere word-play, verging toward nonsense. In recent years, security while backpacking has sadly become too great an issue to dismiss with a shrug. I will dismiss the silliness of the notion for the moment, and run with the premise. In fact, this is only true if, by election of an MP, he or she is made invulnerable to their party's later decision to dismiss them. Show More Sentences I do tend to see things in a different light, so don't dismiss fishing as a sport for rednecks and Newfies. It would be easier to dismiss the whole exercise if there were an obvious ulterior motive. I am suggesting that we are wrong to dismiss their motivations and reasoning out of hand as trivial and aberrant. He shook his head to dismiss the troublesome thoughts, and dug his spurs into the flanks of the horse. They all looked so authoritative when flicking their wands to dismiss boggarts, poltergeists and other pests. Broadsheet snobs can dismiss me all they like, but I'm selling papers and they're not. The songstress does not, however, dismiss her man's behavior as immaterial and, in fact, underlines both its personal and social impact. However, researchers don't dismiss the fact that chocolate is known to contain vasoactive amines that affect blood vessels in the brain. It would be a mistake to dismiss the Satanic panic as a freakish aberrance, however. We can no longer afford to dismiss the vexations of terror now that they have invaded our own spiritual and intellectual terrain. A force that believes it is invulnerable might dismiss or underestimate an opponent's strength, will or commitment. Some readers dismiss her work, considering it insufficiently assertive of a politics of resistance. It would be easy to dismiss these frightful orations as the rantings of frustrated clergymen. Population geneticists dismiss such gene frequencies by convention and so count digit number as having no heritability. Most of the time he could dismiss his memories as exaggerations, products of an overactive imagination. It happens, but my point is that let's not dismiss the overdogs just because they haven't played a game in two weeks. You could dismiss this swankily shot Latin American trifle as an upscale soap opera, but that would be an insult to soap operas. The official party lines seem to be that if they dismiss the BNP out of hand, all the voters will do the same. Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap. To dismiss this finding might promulgate the use of educational technologies in lieu of sound instructional design. Show More Sentences The motions seek the court's approval to dismiss all the cases as a result of a pending settlement. To dismiss and to ignore this further issue as an irrelevancy is absolutely perilous. The freedom to dismiss such codology comes from his respect for and knowledge of the forces at the heart of life. I thank her for confirming my decision and dismiss the matter from my mind. In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants. Those who aren't openly contemptuous often dismiss it as hilariously freakish. Ironic and sharp, Robinson is at her best when skewering with actual Calvinist history and ideas those most apt to dismiss and embody caricatured Calvinism. That is one of the processes that makes it easy to dismiss animal sentience. But many stick-in-the-mud doctors continue to dismiss tales of female fountains as poppycock. A disciplinary trial was under way to decide whether to dismiss the prison guard. It is in the nature of religions that the next fellow is liable to dismiss your deeply held beliefs as poppycock. Is he going to dismiss them and refuse to accept their advice or opinions any more? Retirement is not compulsory at 65 but employers have the right to dismiss employees reaching that age. A wise government would look at it and not simply dismiss it out of hand as some sort of woolly-headed notion. The three representatives then decide whether to dismiss the matter or to admonish the Respondent in person. An employer shall not dismiss or otherwise penalize the employee for exercising the right to take a leave. It is entirely possible that a Court of Appeal's inherent power to dismiss an unarguable or moot appeal summarily, applies to criminal cases too. That legal entity may not dismiss his representative without at the same time naming a successor. He seemed happy to dismiss these arguments with a conspiratorial smile. The appellees in the case asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the case without a ruling, considering the fact that all African American tenants had moved from the premises. Show More Sentences If it is human life, what is it and how is it that we can we so glibly dismiss it as garbage? I am extremely conscious of the fact that human suffering has to be allayed and that we cannot dismiss research that will help do that. They used to dismiss fintech as an amateurish attempt to take on a venerable industry, with no hope of disrupting it, but have stopped scoffing. It almost has me believing in the things I usually dismiss as rubbish, the fairies and the other little people, or the wisdom of the non-human living things. Now, there is good reason to dismiss the argument that minkes need to be killed in order to save blue, sei, fin and humpback whales as specious. And they are very happy to dismiss all their dissidents as terrorists, in order to be able to repress them with impunity. Still, most of his colleagues dismiss the big society as modish decoration for an old-fashioned zeal to cut public spending. If you swear by the Community method you are not supposed to suggest that the Council has a right to dismiss the Commission. It is easy for me to dismiss the idea of a surgical treatment when I am afraid of it. While many people dismiss this Lucy Maud Montgomery tale as just a children's book, its popularity is staggering. Because they do not, defendant's motion to dismiss this case or hold it in abeyance is denied. If the motion to impeach the President is carried within 30 days a referendum is held to dismiss the President. He challenged Netanyahu: either dismiss me or pretend that the spittle on your face is rain. But they cannot dismiss a groundswell of voices from different interest groups. It holds that employers are obliged to act in good faith when they dismiss employees. Now is the time our people must reclaim self-determination and the right to dismiss self-appointed, unqualified leaders. But he manages to confound those who dismiss him as a free-market philistine. For example, in 1386, when criticised in parliament for his choice of advisers, he said that he would not dismiss one scullion from his kitchen at their request. One might dismiss these remarks as mere formalities: insincere, gratuitous, at best oldfashioned gallantry. However, in return for signing the agreement, the employer tacitly promised not to dismiss the employee for a reasonable period. Show More Sentences On 9 June 2004, the College decided to dismiss all these teachers for no other reason than cost-cutting. Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a metaphysical concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation. Do not dismiss those ideas no matter how hard you think they are, because most of you do not have to walk that hard road with us. How can the member so easily dismiss this increase in market that we would see as a result of this agreement? If these alternative measures are used, then the court must dismiss the charge laid against the alleged offender in respect of that offence. In particular, it was found that the three groups of exporting producers were free to hire or dismiss their staff. Yes, the legal framework order was reintroduced by the president, giving him powers to dismiss the parliament. It may, however, at any time and in any circumstances, dismiss and replace one or more directors. Motions have been made to dismiss the complaint or for summary judgment in other cases. An employer may not dismiss a woman because she ceases work in order to take maternity leave. This is not to dismiss the seriousness of the problems we must still address. Government officials view meetings as subversive and dismiss them with tear gas. The limited partners may decide to dismiss the general partner before the expiry date of the agreement. However, it can, in all circumstances, dismiss one or several members of the Board of Directors and replace them. The assessment process has been used by the appellant's superiors with the aim to dismiss him, instead than for evaluating him. It would be easy to dismiss the fuss as a tempest in a teapot or so much inside baseball. I can imagine other readers who would find it more profound than I do, as well as those who might dismiss it out of hand as just more self-indulgent blarney. In considering the court's power to dismiss a case for pretrial delays it is useful to consider the right of the prosecutor to seek a nolle prosequi. It is easy to dismiss racial profiling and other examples of prejudice as minor vexations when the nation faces deadly attacks on its citizens both here and abroad. We must first dismiss the conceptual equipment and interpretations that had been our stock-in-trade throughout the decades in which we relied upon the community study. Show More Sentences So, c'mon then, give them a try, don't dismiss them right away. Critics dismiss the massacre as just another cheap publicity stunt. It had been easy for Johnny to dismiss the harsh words of Adam Tanner. Most non-government schools have much wider powers to select or expel students, and select and dismiss teachers and other staff, than government schools. In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen defends the novel against critics who dismiss it as frivolous and feminine. In recent years, that ancient sales tactic has been easy to dismiss as baloney. I simply want to draw attention to some of the gaps, some of what may be missing, when we dismiss God too brusquely. Where it considers it appropriate, the court may dismiss the claim or take any shortcomings into account when it adjudicates on the issue of costs. I would answer each question in the affirmative and dismiss the appeal. I think if people were to realize that, it would be much harder to criminalize and dismiss us. I've heard someone furiously dismiss all animal charities as supported by woolly minded morons because humans have enough problems without worrying about herons. And these algorithms can dictate behavior and then punish players who dismiss them. The old-guard journalists who dismiss her as a blogueuse have no idea how diligently Riahi trained herself as a journalist. If someone wants to dismiss this as do-goodism, fine, but it has real world effects. He uses it to dismiss hecklers and distract from bad news in the Garden State. Many of course would stop here and dismiss this inherently nostalgic call for a revalidation of the beautiful as hopelessly retrograde and unproductive. But I fear that by crossing the Rubicon from political to partisan, the rock star has become a harder sell, easier to dismiss as a limousine liberal. He is, after all, just a children's writer, and amidst the rarefied snobbery of the publishing world, there will be lurkers determined to dismiss him as a fluke. With the New Moon, Tuesday, cultivate a half-full perspective, appreciating your devotees instead of wooing those who dismiss you. In December the president moved to dismiss a tenured professor. Show More Sentences Reports of ethnic massacres signify an extreme degree of threat and it is hard to dismiss the influence of these reports in triggering group mobilization. But again, this is just another way to dismiss her point as invalid and irrelevant. The Louisiana chief executive is impossible to dismiss out of hand because he fits into several narratives that make him appealing to conservatives and to independent voters. Six days after his arrest, and following consultation with members of his department and of the faculty senate, the university president acted to dismiss him. It's easy to dismiss the jump in inflation as a temporary blip. You can even dismiss notifications without unlocking your phone. At first, it is easy to dismiss Bradlee as an overindulged and overprotected child of privilege. Some Labor figures dismiss this poll, questioning its methodology, and especially doubting if the preferences would fall the way Newspoll has notionally distributed them. However, he admitted that the desire to be able to dismiss the governor was taken into consideration when the committee was deciding to revise the council's standing orders. They might not grab the headlines of the national news media but they will a lot harder to dismiss as anarchists or well-meaning but naive cranks. Give pretzels the heave-ho but don't dismiss whole-grain breads. The judge would be entitled to dismiss the second application unless it could be categorically demonstrated that the new material was conclusive of the case. Just as the Western church refused at first to accept the heliocentric model of Copernicus, so modern astronomy so far chooses to dismiss this second discovery. Hopefully those people originating from south of the Trent now resident in and around York will have a good sense of humour and dismiss his remarks with a grin. We dismiss their worries about eating meat as silly and childish. Let us hope that is the case, that it is nothing more than chimeric gloom, because this cloud is a black one indeed and very hard to dismiss in light of recent headlines. He'd seen his friend dismiss a flirtatious girl with gentle chivalry and no second thoughts, and he'd seen the occasional sidelong glances the brunet had sent his way. It is easy to dismiss middle managers as bureaucratic pen-pushers. Unaccustomed to public criticism, journalists often develop a sense of infallibility that leads them to dismiss their online critics as fools or amateurs. A county court judge who has to gain public support for re-election to keep his or her job might not have been so inclined to dismiss a public indecency case. Show More Sentences Those who dismiss us as mere cranks will be forced to think again. I include this in the hope that it will provide a frame of reference for those who are inclined to dismiss any of my prior examples as inappropriate uses of rhetoric. And if they dismiss you as some kind of lunatic, cross them off your holiday list and go spend the money you would have spent on their gift on yourself. He had quite a complex set of ideas on how it could be done, and he did dismiss the idea that a single medicine, a single elixir could be the cure-all that would achieve that. Although we have seen that we can dismiss a Gadarene school hypothesis, this does not necessarily preclude the development of a local satiric outlook. There's no need to dismiss an idea because it doesn't seem practical. Nor can we dismiss as trivial the part that gastronomy and other social conventions associated with feasting play in the civilizing of the human animal. We mustn't dismiss such words as gushy and sentimental nonsense. If you please, may I first before you dismiss me have a word with Shaugay. The agreement allowed the company to dismiss its entire South Coast underground workforce and re-hire the retrenched workers as casual or contract labour. They are also angered by company moves to dismiss five oil union members. Our bowling line up is mentally prepared to dismiss the Aussie top order. But political opponents sought to dismiss the latest moves to modernise. Opponents dismiss all this as part and parcel of the politics of spin. So, don't dismiss surfing as a sport for Hawaiians and Australians only. Opponents of the thesis dismiss this identity label as elitist. He offered critiques that required you to read and understand old theories, not new theories that allowed you to dismiss everything prior as irrelevant. Human responsibility has a tendency to become inverted when we dismiss our opponents as irrational and illogical because they are standing in the way of our projects. The principle of charity does allow us to ultimately dismiss the third way, but only after having genuinely attempted to understand it in as rational a light as possible. Factor 1 concerned disapproval and efforts to dismiss the thought. Show More Sentences Are we to dismiss Paul's words on the grounds that his understanding of eschatology, his thinking about final things and the end times, was off by a few thousand years? If the chairman of their collective farm turns out to be an upstart who acts contrary to the community's interests, then they get together and discuss him all through the night and dismiss him. Whatever in conversation does not make sense to her in plain, human terms she will quickly dismiss with a witty remark. The same gallery owners who fawn on Einar dismiss her portraits as too conventional. People will find a way to criticise or dismiss disconfirming evidence to maintain their existing beliefs. This is not to exonerate the church or to dismiss Mr. Goldhagen's impressive and disturbing bill of indictment against it. Those who dismiss God as a product of psychological conditioning or pre-scientific myth have not come to terms with the findings of modern science. It is as much a traducement of religious people to dismiss atheism as it is a denigration of atheists. And so the revisionists dismiss Churchill's so-called strategy in 1940 as simply to keep plodding on, as Churchill acknowledged. They dismiss laboratory studies as an appropriate means of assessing validity because of the artificial environment in which they are conducted. They saw in Brüning an obstacle to such an accommodation and persuaded the Marshal to dismiss the Chancellor, who had just helped to reelect him. They dismiss the tactic as a way to scare up donations and motivate core supporters. But others dismiss them, saying this is nothing but the daydream of people who long for some peace. What Lytro has done with this new product is show light-field photography in its purest state, making it hard to dismiss or bowdlerize. Participants simply need to avoid jumping to conclusions and pre-maturely dismiss the ideas of others. But neither is he the sort to dismiss ideas that are not susceptible to evidence. Many may of course just dismiss Mike as yet another farang who has come here to retire, and reinvent himself, like a Walter Mitty, as the character of his fanciful dreams. The CD pushes the listener to the limit of endurance, virtually begs you dismiss it as a depressing case of style over substance, then suddenly reveals hidden depths. Many critics dismiss the slams as showboating, exalting ephemeral theatrics over poetic accomplishment. Because the problems we face are staggering, it is tempting to dismiss the vision as an ideal beyond reach. Show More Sentences Federer doesn't dismiss his vulnerability, understanding he is the sitting target in the carnival dunk tank. Yes, we must prevent the law of the jungle' from prevailing, but must not at the same time dismiss something that is necessary. The constitution established a limited monarchy, with a clear separation of powers in which the king was to name and dismiss his ministers. And yet, they did disagree, and attempted to shout down and dismiss every statement made by the other. Under those circumstances we might have been inclined simply to dismiss Mr. Reid's application when he failed to appear this morning, if the Superintendent had requested that course of action. The court is obliged to hear the case within five days from receiving the complaint and the judge shall pass a decision to confirm or dismiss the complaint. Yet Piechowski could not dismiss his friend's plea. In 1958 MacLeish hired Thurman Arnold, a prestigious lawyer who ended up charging no fee, to file a motion to dismiss the 1945 indictment. The Taoiseach can also direct the President to dismiss or accept the resignation of individual ministers. The main aim of the bowler, supported by his fielders, is to dismiss the batsman. Some may dismiss the iconic work as simply a crowd-pleaser, but that would overlook its cleverness and heart. It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss the concept of utility computing as a passing enthusiasm. In some forms of cricket, it is also necessary to dismiss the opposition in order to win the match, which would otherwise be drawn. One team bats, attempting to score runs, while the other bowls and fields the ball, attempting to restrict the scoring and dismiss the batsmen. O'Rourke felt obliged to inform Mason and Gilmour, which angered Waters, who wanted to dismiss him as the band's manager. Professional historians contend that Zheng He reached the eastern coast of Africa, and dismiss Menzies's hypothesis as entirely without proof. Utilitarian khaki is key for daywear, so weave the colour into your autumn uniform and dismiss camouflage prints. The king famously responded that he would not dismiss as much as a scullion from his kitchen at parliament's request. Chronological and other problems have led most archaeologists to dismiss this idea as implausible. 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