Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view his motives as purely pecuniary, one must also dismiss how astonishingly difficult the vault is, even for a master like Bubka. This is not always easy to appreciate, perhaps because there is something deceptively buoyant and elastic about the way a vault appears to unfold on TV. But to see it from 50 ft. away is to understand that the vault is a brutish thing. The poles, especially the ones Bubka uses, are as stiff as lampposts, and their throat-catching bend is the product of extraordinary speed and gristle. Bubka's virtue, or one of them, anyway...
...faithful actually have God on their side? Are their prayers answered? Benson doesn't say. But a true scientist, insists Jeffrey Levin, cannot dismiss this possibility: "I can't directly study that, but as an honest scholar, I can't rule...
According to Scali, the commission voted to dismiss the action against the Grille based on evidence submitted by the sports bar's attorney, James J. Rafferty...
According to Scali, the Licensing Commission had "no choice but to dismiss the action" taken against the Grille after Rafferty submitted evidence showing that the Boston College students had lied to the investigators from the commission...
...quite as enthusiastic. Lebed told reporters that he was not yet prepared to renounce his candidacy after having worked so hard. Yavlinsky too is not straining at the bit to join the Yeltsin ticket. He has severely criticized the war in Chechnya, and might ask Yeltsin to dismiss the heads of Russia's military and security apparatus in return for his support. "There has been a lot of talk recently about various alliances," says TIME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Kohan. "Various groups are proposing coalitions to preserve stability in Russia, but most of them are simply pre-election manipulations...