While dismissing the notion of trying to nobble his rival in the ensuing training sessions, he admitted it had been an unusual mix of emotions. |
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However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context. |
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The CIA was not impressed, dismissing the would-be politician as an inept bumbler. |
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The wisdom we seek may be better found by enlisting vision and imagination rather than dismissing them. |
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Reading his own apologia affirms a depth of understanding which Feinstein is inclined to ignore, dismissing him as a Stalinist. |
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In its stead, the new power of dismissing the Cabinet through a vote of no confidence was established. |
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There are counter arguments, of course, but I don't think one can justify dismissing the comparisons with other countries as easily as he does. |
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It is tempting to ridicule these creationists, dismissing them as hayseeds and not giving them a second thought. |
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In dismissing this official requirement of a sister state, it would deliberately and openly flout international law and comity. |
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She is witty and frightening exposing hidden anxieties or dismissing them with slightly irreverent laughter. |
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Many times I have left the theater dismissing a film because of its overladen special effects. |
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But overstating threats and dismissing the concerns of friends does not build a strong alliance. |
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It also recommends that specific grounds for dismissing members be included. |
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Some players tease him, but Paul brushes off peer pressure without dismissing his peers. |
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In the past, it would certainly have refused such an agenda, dismissing him as a perverter of the cause. |
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We all experience times of feeling mightily right and dismissing dissent as small-minded pettiness. |
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Soames looked him up and down before dismissing him with a pithy phrase from a great wartime leader. |
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Plucking the key from the other pocket and dismissing the guards with an airy wave of the hand, I take care in maintaining an unconcerned air. |
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I feel somewhat guilty for dismissing what is certainly a very contentious debate in a few lines yesterday. |
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But upon receiving this intimation, he issued the following proclamation, dismissing the Legislature, without date. |
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Flintoff exemplified the power of personality and his irrepressibility by dismissing Sarwan, the man of the tournament, with his first ball. |
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He has little hope left of staying in office apart from dismissing parliament and the threat of violence by his fanatical supporters. |
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However, as it did nothing to either entertain or offend me, I am dismissing this case with prejudice. |
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Such a scenario is meat and drink to the increasing band of media knockers seemingly intent on dismissing Bolton's chances of avoiding the drop. |
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Critics have wasted no time dismissing the scheme as a gimmick or proof that the government have run out of ideas. |
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In a long judgment the judge carefully rehearsed the arguments on each side before dismissing the application. |
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Critics across the country savaged the film upon its initial release, dismissing it as directionless and dreary. |
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The Thrissur Vigilance court's verdict dismissing the wealth amassment case against him that day made Prof. Thomas and his friends happy. |
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Avoiding, dismissing or laughing them off on a consistent basis means that many important issues go unresolved. |
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Maybe I was just tired and upset that the prof seemed to be dismissing or simply ignoring me. |
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The trial judge was entitled to exercise his discretion in dismissing the motion. |
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Even in the most egregious cases, dismissing a career appointee can be a drawn-out process. |
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While one might want to ridicule a particular expression of curiosity, he would be careful of dismissing curiosity root and branch. |
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Her mind had gone round and round in the same circles, formulating plans and then dismissing them. |
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Those who denigrate cinema, dismissing it for its mass appeal, refuse to see film as an art form. |
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Before taking his own life, the gunman wrote that the judge had abused her judicial power in dismissing his medical malpractice case. |
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We are fond of dismissing the participants as dupes, but we are the bigger fools for believing that the shows represent some kind of truth. |
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She shook her head, dismissing all thoughts on that matter, as she entered the Town Square. |
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However, the opposite of cynically or insensitively dismissing people's difficulties is not prettifying their behavior. |
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Other worthies pilloried him for his strokeplay, dismissing the values of strength and quick eye in favour of grace and beauty. |
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He obviously learned from past mistakes when he was too quick on the draw in dismissing three former senators. |
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And this is so jejunely expressed that it is far from clear that it is really inconsistent with what he is dismissing. |
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In dismissing all eight grounds of appeal on conviction, the court said the evidence against Jones was overwhelming. |
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But in order to avoid dismissing such options out of hand, it's important always to have an open, but critical mind. |
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He is reconciled to pre-qualifying for the US Open, dismissing suggestions that victory in Germany could change the situation for the better. |
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Fair play apparently means inviting them to attend their own roast and then dismissing them for the shallowness of their arguments. |
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He shrugged them off, dismissing them as his mind playing tricks in a strange place. |
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That afternoon, the minister was presented with a royal letter dismissing him and ordering him to leave the country immediately. |
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Americans have grown accustomed to cynically dismissing campaign promises peddled by politicians on the stump as pure pablum. |
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The respondent has brought a motion for an order dismissing the application. |
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Not in the sense of dismissing you but unbinding you from a whole series of things that you had thought were part of you. |
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The dismissal and disciplinary procedures apply when an employer contemplates dismissing an employee on various grounds. |
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Subsequent letters to objectors give no reasons or justification for dismissing such objections. |
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Cross argues that dismissing music as a useless frill smacks of ethnocentricity. |
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Sitting restlessly I allowed my women to apply a layer of kohl about my eyes and a touch of coral color to my lips before dismissing myself to find my father. |
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But not everybody was so supportive of yesterday's paper, with of the groups representing senior police officers dismissing it as a wasted opportunity. |
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Clarke himself fails to criticize the Kennedy entourage for mocking and dismissing Johnson as incompetent behind his back. |
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When I talk about reductionist explanations, I don't mean uniformly working our way down to the level of sub-atomic wavicles, and dismissing everything else as unreal. |
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Most commentators have passed judgment on this, the first live televising of a British court case, by dismissing the lengthy legal exchanges as unutterably tedious. |
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She is effectively dismissing him and re-advertising his job, and hasn't ever consulted with him on any of the issues that she may have had concerns about. |
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They simply acted as if they were validly appointed receivers dismissing employees, terminating contracts, disposing of assets and settling claims. |
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A spreadsheet prepared by eff shows judges dismissing 40,000 defendants from such lawsuits. |
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The perpetrator could also apply for an injunction restraining the company from dismissing him or taking disciplinary action following an investigation. |
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Rather than dismissing their culture and beliefs as rustic and backwards, she seeks to engage with them and understand their form, origin and nature. |
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Speaking ahead of the lecture, the critic launched a scathing attack on the contemporary British art scene dismissing Brit Art as a journalistic invention. |
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The Drumaness bowler scythed through the defence of Alan Millar with just the second delivery of his first over, dismissing the Bangor opener for 4 runs. |
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But the insinuation that it contains an inherent nefarious motive is simply a means of dismissing the content. |
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Milam expresses a similar sentiment, dismissing the misconception that Web productions are substandard to traditional media. |
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Chasing a victory target of 80 after dismissing their opponents for 170 earlier today, the tourists sealed their comfortable triumph in just 17.2 overs. |
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By thumbing our nose at the world and dismissing the consensus views of the scientific community, we are scaring off that talent and sending it to our competitors. |
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By comparing the Republicans, unfavorably, to his two children, he was dismissing their concerns as childish and unserious. |
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But dismissing your opponents as uneducable and unlearned by making dismissive remarks about the quality of their teachers serves no useful purpose. |
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In The witch-hunt Narrative, Ross E. Cheit argues the media and courts have gone too far in dismissing evidence of abuse. |
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Though we have profound differences, he is saying, we have to reason about them civilly instead of dismissing, insulting, and demonizing one another. |
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However, one of the often-quoted justifications for dismissing complementary medicine is the apparent lack of scientific evidence to support its claims of efficacy and safety. |
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It took me longer than it should have to realise that she was scared, to stop dismissing her unease as the silly fretfulness of an old lady, to decide that I would take her. |
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Gittens here faults economists for dismissing the public's demands for price control as irrational, or as merely the expression of a vested interest. |
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Rites of degradation involve dismissing or disempowering people. |
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England cruised to an innings and 27 runs victory over the Patron's XI yesterday after dismissing their opponents for a lowly 169 on the final day at the Rawalpindi Stadium. |
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Culley, the engineer in chief of the Post Office telegraph system, who had been dismissing duplex as impractical. |
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George lent support to Walpole by dismissing the bill's opponents from their court offices. |
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With that, Mikhail sat down to place spools of thread on the serger, studying the directions and clearly dismissing her. |
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At the time, the option of Beattie dismissing Muldoon and replacing him, without waiting for Muldoon's resignation, was reportedly discussed. |
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He began to subscribe to a kind of mystical fideism, dismissing both positivist criticisms of religion and rational arguments in favor of it. |
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Rather than ignoring the concerns of his constituents, or dismissing them as a symptom of false consciousness, he said they might have a point. |
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And in public, I laugh scornfully at any mention of it, dismissing it as a show for losers, dweebs and weirdos. |
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The commentariat parses his words, accentuating the positive and dismissing his warnings. |
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Josephus, dismissing these things, said that the only governor of the habitable earth was Vespasian who conquered it. |
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We in this country tended to undervalue Ronald Reagan, too often dismissing him as a cowboy, a warmonger and a bumbler. |
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Sarah waved one hand at us in this floppy-wristed way, like she was dismissing us from her royal throne room. |
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In 2000, the district court issued an order readopting Katie John I on its merits and dismissing the case. |
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After dismissing Root, Harris, who replaced Michael Starc in the starting XI, made quick work of Kevin Pietersen, catching out the England batsman with a vicious outswinger. |
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Bodin responded by dismissing this argument contending that the growing influx of silver from the Spanish Americas was the primary cause of price inflation. |
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It subtly sends out a loaded political attack message supporting one position, centrism, while surreptitiously dismissing other positions as lies and their adherents as liars. |
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Mark Alleyne had the rare distinction of bowling a wicket maiden in the sixth over of the Worcestershire innings, dismissing Mason after five dot balls. |
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Since the early 20th century scientists have been trying to prove the ivory-bill woodpecker is extinct, dismissing claims of sightings despite many reports to the contrary. |
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He said the coalition should have screened out individuals implicated in abuses by Saddam's Ba'athist regime, rather than dismissing people wholesale. |
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