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Although Italian employers have dismissed the proposed employment-law reform as far too modest, Monti’s government has retreated in the face of trade-union opposition and protests from assorted interest groups (like taxi drivers) eager to defend their privileges.
The vote ended in a standoff between the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, who declared himself the winner, and the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, who dismissed the vote as rigged.
The problem should not be dismissed as a mere settling of old scores.
He dismissed most of Keynes’s attack on the orthodox economics of his day as unnecessary, writing “had Keynes [started] with the simple statement that he found it realistic to assume that money wages…were sticky and resistant to downward movements...most of his insights would have remained just as valid.”
For example, court orders against employers who had dismissed workers for engaging in union activities were not enforced.
After all, when Cameron asked at the December 2011 European Council meeting that UK financial services be exempted from common rules in exchange for British support for the EU’s new “fiscal compact,” Britain’s European partners dismissed the notion outright, viewing it as blackmail.
No sooner had this BJP-fueled hysteria been widely dismissed – Muslims comprise 13% of India’s population, and there have been only a handful of such marriages – than the inflammatory rhetoric mounted.
While a common-sense approach based on individual experience is not the most “scientific,” it should not be dismissed out of hand.
The proposal will be met with outrage from many governments, especially, but not exclusively, Germany’s, and will be dismissed by the many political candidates who treat sovereign debt, built up by the incumbents they are seeking to depose, as the devil’s work.
Assertions that labor rights and the environment are trampled for the benefit of the few cannot be easily dismissed in those countries.
But they should not be dismissed.
But the underlying question, whether Italy is trustworthy or not, cannot be dismissed so easily.
But the fact that some of the world's most successful economies prospered while doing things that are not in the rule-book is something that cannot be dismissed easily.
The case dragged on until it was dismissed in 1982 as being “without merit.”
Just as the possibility of Brexit was initially dismissed, few political elites, Republican and Democratic alike, took seriously Trump’s bid for the Republican nomination.
They can no longer be dismissed; instead, leaders must figure out how to address their concerns.
War threats in the Middle East should never be dismissed as hollow.
On November 1, the day after the first round of voting that later pitted Kuchma against Simonenko, three governors were unceremoniously dismissed when returns in their oblasts did not favor Kuchma.
Today, mercantilism is typically dismissed as an archaic and blatantly erroneous set of ideas about economic policy.
When the Fed initially hinted at its intention to taper QE, policymakers in some emerging economies cried foul, but were dismissed by advanced-economy officials as chronic complainers.
They lined up the dead on Alamdaar Street, which runs through the city’s Shia community, and refused to bury them until the government dismissed inept and corrupt local officials, led by a local nawab who spent more time abroad or in Islamabad than in the provincial capital.
But her first term was cut short when the president – with whom she had been engaged in a power struggle – dismissed her under the Eighth Amendment of Pakistan’s military-drafted constitution, amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement.
That cleared the way for the return of Bhutto, who remained prime minister until 1996, when she was dismissed yet again – this time, by her own Pakistan Peoples Party.
The message from the European Commissioner on Competition – that market rules apply to everyone – is one that Putin has dismissed for years.
The proposal would be dismissed as economic lunacy.
Although the ANC dismissed proposals to nationalize the country’s mines, its embrace of “strategic state ownership” has brought further policy uncertainty to the sector while paving the way for a weightier government presence in related industries like energy and steel.
Recently, no less than William F Buckley has argued that nicotine addiction cannot be dismissed as free choice.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen wisely reminds us that “it is important that the practical case for tobacco control is not dismissed on the basis of an incomplete libertarian argument.”
Those who criticize the euro or how it is managed have long run the risk of being dismissed as Anglo-Saxons or, worse, anti-Europeans.
All charges against them were dismissed.
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