Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and former chief executive, had long resisted calls to dispense big sums to investors.
The jury room, with its dozing strangers awaiting the call to dispense justice, never fails to stir her soul.
From time to time, the ghost of Wallis even pays Wally a call to dispense beauty tips or comfort her when she's lying injured on the bathroom floor.
It is not a call to dispense with critical analyses of state power and other structures which circumscribe the potential of social actors to become politically engaged.
Charles Schwab, an American on-line stockbroker, has developed a prototype bot called Virtual Chuck to dispense investment advice.
Still smarting from Israel's attempted assassination in Gaza last week of its military leader, Mohammed Dief, Hamas called on Palestinians to dispense with the "illusion of reaching a political arrangement" with Israel and place their faith in armed resistance, suicidal and otherwise.
Many commentators and some elected leaders have called on the parties to dispense with political theater and take action on economic reforms and other major issues.
For this reason, Mr Bush's foreign-policy duo deserve to be treated with a wary respect rather than the hallelujahs that have so far welcomed them.*To mark his coming of age, The Economist calls on the world to dispense forthwith with George Bush's "W".
Tropatchov is both a clever observer of the social mores of the landed gentry and an "infamous, fatuous fop," as Kuzovkin later calls him, given to dispensing insincerities such as "My worst fear, my nightmare, is that you'll find us all so very dull — so very, very dull, and you'll scurry away back to Petersburg, flippety floppety like a pair of little gray rabbits".
In 1966, Rainer premièred a dance called "Trio A," which attempted to dispense with expression altogether.
