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Dismissed in sentence

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He behaved with great class and easily dismissed all the insults I had heaped on him only a short time before.
In addition to the discharge of nearly 4,000 officers, 85,000 public officials have been dismissed from their jobs since July 15, and 17,000 have been jailed.
Anyone who disagrees is dismissed as an elitist “Remoaner” showing contempt for ordinary voters.
Obama blundered when he dismissed a 2010 deal on Iran’s nuclear program mediated by Brazil and Turkey (despite having earlier endorsed the talks).
Although China's rulers dismissed the election, Taiwan's open democratic exercises will have vast repercussions for other Chinese political communities in their pursuit of greater political pluralism.
In cyberspace, the same practice, often dismissed as “trolling,” remains the backbone of Wikipedia ’s quality control.
Yet another lawsuit regarding sex crimes was dismissed this year.
I stayed silent when the paper's popular cartoonist (Larry Feign) was unjustly dismissed, and remained silent even after its best satirical writer (Nury Vittachi) was sacked.
The US dismissed all of this, seemingly unable to take to heart anything members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government had to say.
Thus, Auschwitz is dismissed as a “detail of history,” in the telling phrase of the French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
With his traditional sense of humor, Lula dismissed the slight.
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - negotiated with major US involvement - has been dismissed.
The stunning magnitude of recent declines cannot be dismissed as a one-day anomaly caused by a technical trading glitch.
A critic who made the same claim that economics allows only one theoretical approach would be dismissed as paranoid, whereas Rodrik’s standing creates an opportunity for a debate that would not otherwise be possible.
Also like Trump, Bolsonaro has unleashed a litany of racist, sexist, homophobic, and nativist comments that should not be dismissed as mere bluster.
And it had dismissed a Soviet-initiated disarmament plan, the first official attempt at peaceful coexistence, out of hand.
Those who mocked him were speedily dismissed by the Ukrainian parliament in the wake of President Viktor Yanukovych’s flight from Kyiv.
The most serious weakness in Ferguson’s presentation is his lack of sympathy for the civilizations dismissed as “the rest,” which also points to the most serious limitation of the revisionist case.
Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Senator Bernie Sanders, dismissed the brouhaha about her private server early in the campaign.
It is true that coalition politics prevented decisive action, with a railway minister being summarily dismissed by his own party leader – whom the UPA was politically unable to confront – after attempting to raise fares.
Notwithstanding low growth forecasts for the entire developed world, these systemic risks, taken individually and in combination, appear to be declining (though certainly not to the point that they can be dismissed).
Critical thought is increasingly dismissed as an elitist endeavor, while unaccountable social media, “fake news,” and “alternative facts” dominate public discussion.
Throughout the developed world, companies, like governments, are confronting growing cynicism and anger, with much of the public feeling violated and dismissed.
Those who are not up to the new challenges are dismissed with a shrug as "leftovers from the past" and chucked onto the dustbin of history, a place overflowing with "human refuse" after years of communism.
For those born afterward "that absence was dismissed before they were born.
Believing that markets always know best, they dismissed warnings by a few mere mortals (including me) about overpricing of equities and housing.
Even if Putin’s “provocation” thesis is dismissed, it is possible that the chemical attacks were unleashed by rogue elements in the Syrian army, whose culpability Assad had to deny to preserve his own position.
The shock absorbers that were dismissed as unnecessary for a golden child (world capital markets, remember, were supposed to finance your way out of a slump) turned out to be crucial.
But, one by one, most of the DPP’s founding fathers all left the party, accusing Chen of corruption and autocratic behavior even within his own party – which Chen dismissed as sour grapes from people who wanted their share of the political spoils.
Still, the pessimists’ concerns cannot be dismissed.
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