Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strangely enough, his agreement with the U.N. action does not go so far as to dismiss Taiwan completely. Hedging the issue of American policy toward the future of Taiwan, he said: "I think that question can be solved by those two governments alone but I am confident that it will be peaceably resolved...
...extent that any official in California or New York did deal with the question of motivation, it was only to dismiss it as a significant factor by depicting the prisoners as sub-humans incited by sinister terrorists. Governor Regan: "Many of these incidents (prison uprisings) appear to result from the unlawful designs of, self-proclaimed revolutionary forces operating within and without prison walls...
...Brezhnev doctrine and reaffirmation of the Belgrade and Moscow declarations of the mid-'50s. These had ended the Stalinist campaigns against Yugoslavia by proclaiming the right of all Communist countries to find their own path to Marxism. Brezhnev gave his hosts some satisfaction by seeming to dismiss "the doctrine of limited sovereignty" as a "fabrication" by the West and pledging his own support of the old declarations. However, Brezhnev's assurances were semantically slippery. He said that the Belgrade and Moscow declarations had to be understood in the context of "contemporary conditions"-which could mean anything...
...community rootism, and strength of organization are often of coequal importance with political stands in Boston elections--and, indeed, in elections all over the country. If it is Grillo's suggestion that I made up this idea and somehow grafted it onto DiCara's campaign, I urge her to dismiss it from her mind. The interpretations were almost all supplied by DiCara himself or by members of his campaign staff. --Garrett Epps...
...effects, is necessary to read only if a reader starts to read it and refuses not to go on to the last word. It can happen, even today, even in America. And if it happens, it is because of the vitality of the writing. Durability follows vitality. When you dismiss Dreiser and belittle Warren, you are being laughable but not funny, which TIME has always tried to be for some preposterous reason Dreiser and Warren are writers. Your employees are not writers, they are jobholders. The difference is fundamental...