Word: dismiss
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...During the course of her trial Judge Clark had repeatedly questioned whether that remedy was appropriate, but she had seemed willing to be convinced, and had repeatedly denied the Bush team's attempts to dismiss the case or boil it down to a "summary judgment" on the legal issues. Then at 12:30, the expected rulings were delayed until 2:15 - to a groan from the assemblage of reporters - because "one of the judges, I'm not going to say which one," said court spokesman Doug Smith, "needs more time to consider her ruling." Laughs...
Gerety is quick to dismiss concerns that the pair is tackling too great a challenge...
Indeed, Cheney is so attuned to the vagaries of his heart that when he was awakened last Wednesday around 3:30 a.m. by a discomfort in his chest, he realized at once that he couldn't dismiss it as simple indigestion. It wasn't intense pain, Cheney told the press two days later. But, he said, "it lasted long enough, it was steady enough, it didn't change when I breathed deeply or moved around" that he decided--correctly--to have it checked without delay. (See this week's Personal Time: Your Health...
Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, an old McCarthy rival from his Wisconsin days, vehemently denied the senator's charges. He said that while he believed there were no Communists on the Harvard faculty, if he found any he would dismiss them...
...Kennedy, O'Connor and possibly Breyer seemed concerned about whether the case should be there at all. This is particularly significant because they could try to dismiss the case altogether - I could see them in conference trying to argue the case was improvidently granted...