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The Financial Times’ Alphaville column recently dismissed the case for transferring a block of shares from Big Tech corporations, like Google, to a public trust fund by misrepresenting the underlying argument as a failure to appreciate what Google has done for us.
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the regulatory agency for the oil industry, has dismissed these claims, vowing to impose hefty fines on companies that flout the deadline.
The late Stephen J. Gould, author of The Mismeasure of Man, dismissed cross-cultural research using IQ tests as an attempt by white men to show their superiority.
In this sense, the fact that Europe’s political leadership has not dismissed out of hand talk of more dramatic monetary policy from the ECB – inspired by quantitative easing in the United States – provides some hope.
And, given the country’s politicized judiciary, most electoral petitions were summarily dismissed on technical grounds, with many candidates denied even the right to present their cases.
Votes were still being counted when the head of the National Electoral Council, Tibisay Lucena, dismissed the process as invalid and legally irrelevant.
In fact, the company’s public statements – including as recently as last year – routinely dismissed the risk of climate change.
In case of insolvency, a bank’s computers would not be turned off, its employees would not instantly be dismissed, and payment transactions would not collapse.
Only a month ago, Mubarak dismissed demands for constitutional reform as “futile.”
The Japanese do have one argument that is not so easily dismissed.
Such concerns cannot be dismissed.
Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy in the United States was largely dismissed, until he won.
And even then, it was just a sail-through that an official Chinese mouthpiece dismissed as a “political show.”
Ebola in AmericaNEW YORK – Until Thomas Eric Duncan brought Ebola into the United States, the disease was largely dismissed as an exotic pestilence of concern mainly to impoverished West Africa, and those who dared to volunteer there.
The Islamic Republic’s first president, Abolhassan Bani Sadr, was dismissed from office a year after his election.
His was one vote out of 22, but he represents 27% of eurozone GDP, so he cannot be dismissed as an insignificant outlier.
One answer that can be easily dismissed is that politicians simply don’t understand the gravity of the situation.
The Dr. Pangloss school dismissed them as benign – a mere reflection of emerging economies’ demand for dollar reserves, which only the US could provide, and American consumers’ insatiable appetite for cheap merchandise imports.
And, two months ago, after a meeting with Merkel, Tsipras dismissed the idea that Germans should be held responsible for Greece’s current situation.
In Kuwait, the government dismissed parliament.
A high-level German diplomat reportedly dismissed Spain’s 6.5-7% interest rates recently, on the grounds that Spain borrowed at nearly the same rates in the 1990’s.
For starters, the accusations and contradictions that are supposed to be dismissed as just part of the show – or even as tactics that the public cannot yet understand – can easily become all-consuming, as US cable news continues to prove.
And yet North Korea has already dismissed Trump’s threats as a “load of nonsense.”
For most East Europeans, indeed, communal and national ties -- long suppressed by communism and dismissed by the West -- had acquired renewed vitality.
Though often dismissed as a mere “transactional” manager, Bush had one of the best foreign-policy records of the past half-century.
Dismissed out of hand in the go-go 1980s as a contributor to the previous decade’s stagnation, it is increasingly viewed as a means to stem working-class voters’ defection to right-wing populist parties.
China, once dismissed as poor and backward, is now the world’s second-largest economy.
Since 1980, trade deficits have been dismissed as the outcome of free-market choices.
A long-serving editor of the British Sun newspaper, for example, was recently dismissed for a column making a racist comparison between a soccer player and a gorilla.
With unemployment remaining near record lows, the lack of demand growth is simply dismissed, and the absence of inflation is taken as a sign of success.
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