Word: scoff
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...Democrats scoff and call it "an insurance policy" to make sure it's George W. Bush's electors who go north to D.C. and Bush that follows them. They say that Bush's slate was already filed in Washington after Sunday's certification, and that the only reason Republicans want to do this is to overturn an imminent Gore win in the courts...
...hated, and sports fans were more than happy to accommodate him. And so, with the visit of the Braves to Fenway last July, it occurred to me and a friend that there was no better way to spend a warm summer evening than to go see (boo, scoff, deride, etc.) John Rocker. The event, we hoped, would be memorable; but it was so much more than that...
...dramatic showdown with an opposition ready to take to the streets to claim its victory. Preliminary official results announced Tuesday put opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica eight points ahead of the Serb strongman, but deny him the 50 percent margin required to claim first-round victory. Opposition leaders scoff at the figures released by Milosevic's electoral commission, confidently claiming that independent officials monitoring the count at local ballot stations confirm that Kostunica won 55 percent of the vote. Reading Milosevic's call for a runoff election as a play for time, the opposition has flatly rejected a second ballot...
...jesters who would scoff at Stoughton's fate...
...feeling an increased "sense of isolation and affront," as the court warns us those in the religious minority might experience, I sometimes found an unexpected degree of the opposite: inclusion and camaraderie with my teammates after taking part in the pregame prayers, a solemn connection that I wanted to scoff at but, because it moved me, could...