Word: dismissed
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...Their simmering frustration now is beginning to boil. "None of this makes sense to me," says JoAnne Bander, a Democratic activist in Miami and a Clinton supporter. "I feel completely disenfranchised. How can they dismiss the turnout we produced and keep treating Florida as if it were some marginal consideration...
...constitutional court must now vote whether to dismiss or hear the prosecutor's bid to ban the ruling party. In the event of the latter, the AKP has one month to submit a defense and an ensuing case could take several months, losing Turkey much credibility abroad. "The constitutional court should reject the closure demand," wrote Milliyet commentator Hasan Cemal. "Otherwise, Turkey will lose." European governments and the U.S. have criticized...
...trying to force her to resign and calling the charges and subsequent investigation “a conspiracy and witch-hunt by certain current and former members of the Teachers College community.” Though Constantine is one of only two tenured black women at the school, Horowitz dismissed allegations of racism. “The college has zero tolerance for racism, discrimination, or prejudice of any kind,” Horowitz said. “And the college says that racism had no bearing on the way the investigation was conducted or on the findings...
...weapon against the war on terror there. It's justice, democracy, and empowered people. And here they have participated in the demolition of the same structures. We have a judicial tradition and reasonably independent judges. We had a reasonable tradition of empowered votes. [Allowing the government of Pakistan to dismiss] the judges is going to prove to be as ill-advised and as disastrous as dismissing the entire Iraqi army. The Americans are going to rue the day that they allowed - without a whimper - Pervez Musharraf to arrest the judges. If they continue to keep the status quo on that...
...novel, it is just a matter of perspective.Only Kertész can take us through his characters’ tortuous thought-paths in such a manner: his characters grate against our hearts and reason, and yet, as much as we may wish to do so, we are unable to dismiss them as insane. Repeatedly denigrating himself as “the new boy” and just a “flat-foot,” Martens accepts his share of responsibility for the murders he helped commit as part of the secret police. He does not attempt to pass...