Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MORI poll released last week, only 36% of British adults considered Blair trustworthy, and 59% said he had failed to live up to their expectations. Critics, both in the Labour Party and outside, largely blame Campbell's style of news management - so combative and relentless that by now people dismiss as spin much of what the government says. Conservative M.P. Alan Duncan, shadow foreign minister, asked to compare Campbell's role with that of previous image makers, replies, "How much do you know about Dr. Goebbels?" and then, more seriously, says, "He's a very competent propagandist; none better...
...billion fund to pay outstanding Holocaust-related slave-labor claims in exchange for legal immunity from restitution demands. Indeed, the German ambassador in Washington, Wolfgang Ischinger, in January wrote to the New Jersey judge who is considering Principe's suit in the U.S., urging him to dismiss that case. It should, according to the ambassador, be subsumed by the 2000 agreement. Principe's lawyers filed an angry rebuttal, saying the ambassador's letter "inexcusably" failed to disclose the German government's own "substantial pecuniary interest" in the case. Behind the scenes, the German Foreign Ministry has been trying to convince...
...While it's easy to dismiss these plane spotters as sad anoraks, they were local heroes to me?animated, cheerful souls absolutely passionate about their beloved airport. Their enthusiasm was infectious. Perhaps it was just as well I was flying back to London that night, otherwise I could have stayed there all week. Why on earth did men hang out in Wan Chai when there was such a spectacle? What pole dancer on earth could provide entertainment on par with this...
...fertilizer plant. This was strange, as the prosecutor's office had previously decided that there was no case to bring. About the same time, a senior Yukos security official was detained on suspicion of a double murder. Yukos representatives say neither man has been formally charged, and dismiss the allegations as spurious. Yet things got worse. Yukos offices were subject to a 16-hour raid, and last week the government announced it would review the firm's tax payments, a favorite harassment tactic. Rumors began circulating that another Yukos official, this time a top member of the board, would...
...Security Council may not be in a hurry to accept the credentials of the governing council.) Some Iraqis have welcomed the creation of the council as an important first step to restoring their sovereignty, even if they know little about the 25 people selected to represent them. Others, however, dismiss the body as simply an extension of the U.S. occupation. These include, of course, former Baathists and their supporters and also Islamist elements among the Sunni Arab population, but more worryingly, the increasingly militant Sadrist movement among the Shiite majority. While the Council has a Shiite majority and includes...