Word: dismissiveness
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...Sleepless, distraught by rumblings from many sources against his regime, the Dictator impulsively drafts a circular telegram to the 17 principal Captains General and garrison commanders in Spain. He has appointed them all. He can dismiss them. He asks them whether they think he should continue to dictate, whether he still has their "confidence...
...authorized by tradition, he hesitates to deposit his overcoat with equal complacence upon the well-oiled floors of the University squash courts. Indeed, a hat in the last stages of dilapidation can be explained away as due to "indifference", but it is difficult with equal propriety to dismiss a soiled and much trampled-over topcoat as caused by a similar disregard for convention. It might well help to solve the mystery of what becomes of the ten cent charges by applying them to a a few obvious improvements such as the installation of coat hangers...
...average athlete's ambition, what effect would the abolition of probation have? In the absence of any other check there is every reason to suppose that the same athlete would allow himself to slip even lower than the standard established by probation. If it were proposed to dismiss him, still there must be some criterion on which to judge and he must in all fairness be warned. Probation requirements, subject to the elastic judgment of the authorities, supply the criterion and probation itself constitutes the warning. There may be a more successful method of accomplishing this end, but if there...
Since Senator Borah is undoubtedly a power, indeed one of the most potent powers that got President Hoover elected, something had to be done and done quickly. So Attorney-General Mitchell issued orders to each & every district attorney, forbidding them to dismiss any liquor cases on court dockets without explicit permission from the Department of Justice...
...onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor Democratic contestant for the Vare seat. . . . . Before the roll call was finished, Vare was hobbling out of the room. Blind Senator Schall of Minnesota groped his way to him, embraced him consolingly. In his ears rang bells for a roll call that would dismiss (66 to 15) the Wilson contest...