verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a court dismisses/throws out sth (= refuses to allow or consider something )
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The court dismissed his appeal against conviction.
be discharged/dismissed from the army
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He developed epilepsy, a condition which led to him being discharged from the army.
be dismissed from a post (= be told to leave )
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As a result of the scandal, he was dismissed from his post.
deny/dismiss an accusation
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The government denied accusations of corruption.
dismiss a report (= refuse to consider it because you believe it is not true )
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A Treasury official yesterday dismissed the reports as ‘pure speculation’.
dismiss speculation (= say that it is not true )
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He dismissed speculation that he might run for president.
dismiss the charges (= say that a court case should not continue )
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If there is insufficient evidence, the court will dismiss the charges.
dismiss/sack an employee (= stop employing them because they have behaved badly or broken a rule )
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Seven employees were dismissed for misconduct.
dismiss/throw out a case (= officially stop it from continuing )
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The case was thrown out by New York state’s highest court.
dismiss/throw out/turn down an appeal (= not give permission for a decision to be changed )
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The taxpayer's appeal was dismissed and the penalty upheld.
reject/dismiss a notion
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Aristotle rejected the notion that the body and the soul are separate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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This absence of feeling, I dismissed as damaged nerve endings.
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Some one had proposed something about her sister accompanying her on blocks, but that scheme was quickly dismissed as too complicated.
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But Timothy Gedge couldn't be dismissed as easily as that.
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The concept of reason and all speculation about personal opinion would ever after be dismissed as tribal, beliefs fabricated by sects.
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Intellectuals were dismissed as uncreative and unproductive.
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After a brief debate in the parliament, his scheme was dismissed as inappropriate.
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Such students may seem to lack initiative and may even be dismissed as dull.
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Her successes are dismissed as tawdry, her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated.
unfairly
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The tribunal ruled she was unfairly dismissed from her £14,000-a-year job at the union's regional headquarters in Edge Lane, Liverpool.
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Once the protection is acquired, the employee can make a claim that he or she has been unfairly dismissed .
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If a person is unfairly dismissed he may be awarded compensation.
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He said something about they'd been unfairly dismissed .
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Three remedies are available for persons found to have been unfairly dismissed: reinstatement, re-engagement or compensation.
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They will both claim that they were unfairly dismissed because the other was the culprit but that is not the issue.
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I came to reinstate two young girls who were dismissed unfairly from my household.
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Employees are scared to enforce their rights because if they did they would be unfairly dismissed .
■ NOUN
action
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I would allow the appeal and dismiss the plaintiffs' action .
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The Supreme Court last June dismissed an action brought by six members of Congress, saying they lacked legal standing.
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That does not mean that we should dismiss the need for action beyond the investigation of the events themselves.
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A federal judge had dismissed the action , and the appeals court overturned that decision.
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The judge dismissed the action but the Court of Appeal allowed the plaintiffs' appeal and granted the declaration sought.
allegation
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The resistance movement dismissed the allegations .
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Microsoft dismissed the allegations as unfounded, saying its practices were specifically allowed by the consent decree.
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The chief justice's supporters dismiss the allegations of racism as preposterous.
appeal
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Failure to attend Court on said date may result in the appeal being dismissed , and a warrant issued for your apprehension.
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In my view the appeal should be dismissed .
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In my judgment, it is impossible to say that that decision is wrong and this appeal will be dismissed .
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The taxpayer's appeal was dismissed and the penalty upheld.
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I would allow the appeal and dismiss the plaintiffs' action.
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The taxpayer's appeal was accordingly dismissed .
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The Court of Appeal similarly dismissed the taxpayers' further appeal.
application
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I therefore dismiss the father's application .
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The Divisional Court dismissed the applications .
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On 18 March the judge dismissed the applications .
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On that ground he dismissed the father's application for the return of the child.
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Potts J. dismissed the defendants' application to strike out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action.
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For the reasons which I have given, I would dismiss this application for judicial review.
argument
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Now, one can dismiss Mr Toner's argument as special pleading.
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The judge dismissed arguments by Collins that release of the pretrial hearing documents would inevitably cause jurors to learn about their contents.
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In his latest book on fertility decline, J.A. Banks dismisses the argument that fertility control results from economically rational behaviour.
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Most readers have had a predilection to dismiss the arguments and speculations.
case
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Once again the magistrate dismissed the case against him.
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As a result of this incident, Mailloux was dismissed and took his case to court.
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The police had summonsed the wrong man, and the court dismissed the case against him.
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As a result, the bankruptcy court dismissed their case in September 1993&038;.
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She did so, and he dismissed the case .
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But a judge dismissed the criminal case a few months later, because the statute of limitations had expired.
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Then the original examining magistrate was dismissed from the case for making such a muddle of it.
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Allstate, which declined to comment on the suit, settled in November after a judge refused to dismiss the case .
charge
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Winter denies the allegation and those who know him dismiss the charge as absurd.
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In September, the committee dismissed three charges against Gingrich but at least four more are unresolved.
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I shall probably even dismiss the charges against you.
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Cuyahoga County judge Patrick Curran ruled police had no right searching Mesa's car and dismissed the gun charge .
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The court dismissed the charge against him when the prosecution offered no evidence.
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When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.
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At the hearing of the information, the stipendiary magistrate dismissed the charge .
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A grand jury decided Wednesday to dismiss charges against the first Texan to shoot and kill some one with a licensed concealed handgun.
claim
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But a judge dismissed her compensation claim .
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She said it would be premature to dismiss the racketeering claim or rule out damages.
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But it could also be used to dismiss the claims , even of empiricists, that they knew how nature works.
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He dismissed as unreasonable her claim that she should have enough to buy her own farm.
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We can not dismiss claims about, say, alternative medicine or acupuncture a priori.
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Is that a reason to dismiss them or their claims ?
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At first instance the trial judge dismissed the claim .
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Nolan J. dismissed the claim but the Court of Appeal, by a majority, reversed his decision.
court
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The police had summonsed the wrong man, and the court dismissed the case against him.
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Finding that the superintendent was carrying out an official duty when making these comments, the court dismissed the suit against him.
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The court dismissed the charge against him when the prosecution offered no evidence.
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As a result, the bankruptcy court dismissed their case in September 1993&038;.
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The Divisional Court dismissed the applications.
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The Supreme Court last June dismissed an action brought by six members of Congress, saying they lacked legal standing.
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A lower court has already dismissed their cases.
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McNamee back to the court that dismissed his previous appeal in 1991.
employee
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The protest was held in opposition to government plans to dismiss 25,000 state employees in order to reduce fiscal spending by 42 percent.
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Even if the reason is economic, technical or organisational the employer must still act reasonably in selecting and dismissing each employee .
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An employer who wants to dismiss an employee must give proper notice.
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Given that redundancy is a fair reason for dismissing an employee , a redundant employee can not usually claim unfair dismissal.
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Therefore, a purchaser would avoid automatically assuming liabilities by requiring a vendor to dismiss all or some employees prior to completion.
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A Charter of Rights for Employees , including making it unlawful to dismiss an employee for industrial action.
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The employers learned of the letters and summarily dismissed the employees for gross misconduct.
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It was held that the employer was entitled to summarily dismiss the employee for this unauthorized use of the password.
government
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Gavin, since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo, was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees.
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On Aug. 6, 1990, the President dismissed the Bhutto government and ordered fresh elections to be held on Oct. 24.
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At present, the president has the constitutional power to dismiss an elected government for large scale misdemeanours.
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His views were dismissed by the government , which portrayed the riots as merely criminal acts.
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But this has failed to deliver results because each dismissed government has been replaced by a yet more irresponsible one.
hand
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Yet there are a few hints that the possibility of specific performance even of these judgments should not be dismissed out of hand .
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The bankrupt cattle barons dismissed thousands of hired hands , who were forced to find new careers.
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But you want to try these pickups before you dismiss them out of hand .
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That is an unlikely enough scenario to dismiss out of hand , though.
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That idea can be dismissed out of hand .
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After dismissing it out of hand , the neighbor called back the same night and said it might be worth considering.
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But he hardly dismisses experiential knowledge out of hand .
idea
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I dismissed the idea that Tam and Richie might have found their own way there.
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They can always find a disease organism somewhere as a way of dismissing the idea of air pollution.
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And them she suddenly wondered if her son and Lee ... she dismissed the idea equally swiftly; she would know.
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New Democrat Gore dismissed the idea .
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This has led some doctors to dismiss the whole idea of chemical sensitivity and claim that all such patients are hyperventilating.
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Yet why should we dismiss the idea out of hand as some advocates of megalithic spirituality seem to do?
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If they don't, one should dismiss the idea of cars unable to get out of the garage as sensational rubbish-mongering.
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Coldly, he had dismissed the idea .
judge
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But a judge dismissed her compensation claim.
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It was also last month that a federal judge refused to dismiss the state lawsuit against Desert Diamond Casino.
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The judge dismissed the solicitors' summons.
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But a judge dismissed the criminal case a few months later, because the statute of limitations had expired.
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On 18 March the judge dismissed the applications.
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When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.
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At first instance the trial judge dismissed the claim.
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Allstate, which declined to comment on the suit, settled in November after a judge refused to dismiss the case.
minister
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The Prime Minister appoints ministers, reshuffles Cabinets, dismisses ministers, and promotes ministers.
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Tanay himself was officially dismissed as Defence Minister on March 6 and was replaced by Maj.-Gen.
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He was dismissed as Minister of Justice by Banda in 1964.
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Haughey dismissed two ministers before the no confidence vote.
notion
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Novick dismisses this notion without difficulty: the plan was considered, and found to be impractical.
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There are some who dismiss the notion that results from the East will have much effect on California.
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Regretfully, Gwendolen dismissed the notion .
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Horton dismisses any notion that his students are being bribed to stay in school.
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After initially reading the manuscript, David Kaczynski said he dismissed the notion that his brother was the Unabomber.
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Florin dismissed any notion of martial law-like conditions prevailing.
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Such accounts dismiss any notion of reproduction and treat consumption as wholly, as opposed to relatively, autonomous.
possibility
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Unlike a lot of linguists, I would not dismiss the possibility .
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He did not dismiss the possibility of signing a junior-college player.
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During the meeting she had completely dismissed that possibility .
post
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When the story was published, he was dismissed from his post , and had great difficulty raising money for further excavations.
reason
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Some state laws specifically provide that tenured teachers can be dismissed for economic reasons .
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Seven cases were dismissed for various reasons at the civil hearing held before Sheriff Alexander Jessop.
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Riffling: Can a teacher be dismissed for economic reasons ?
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They'd give you low-paying-jobs, reduce your salary or simply dismiss you with no reasons given.
suggestion
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Mr Withington dismissed suggestions the company might face a growing number of smuggling cases.
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The facts here being admittedly extreme, the Court of Appeal could dismiss this suggestion without difficulty.
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He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year's schedule.
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For those who dismiss the suggestion , a warning.
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It dismisses suggestions that acid rain is a key factor in declining tree health.
teacher
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A dismissed teacher may seek a review of the dismissal before an arbitrator.
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Examining past, present, and projected student enrollments in one district, the school board voted to dismiss four teachers .
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Despite the apparent vagueness of this term, courts have ruled that it is a valid ground for dismissing teachers .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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One leader dismissed the conference's findings on the environment as unproven.
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Richards dismissed criticism that the Red Cross has not educated the public about AIDS.
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The argument for higher tariffs cannot be dismissed out of hand.
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The judge dismissed most of the police evidence, saying it was clearly fabricated.
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The murder charge against Beckwith has been dismissed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After careful consideration of all the evidence and relevant law the Tribunal either upholds or dismisses the appeal.
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He dismissed newspaper reports that he had expressed concern about the possibility of a recession.
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That is how it dismisses the coal industry.
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The company, which has dismissed most of its staff, said it had debt of $ 274 million.
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The thin man poked the children and asked questions which the doctor dismissed.
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We can not dismiss evil as some vague spiritual force that presides outside of human behavior.
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When this became tiresome, he tried to dismiss the game altogether, only to find that he could not.