The council will appoint and dismiss ministers, set budgets, send diplomats abroad and perhaps play a role in security.
But the ease of such promises, and their history of being watered down in office, is no reason to dismiss the "setting data free" comments in David Cameron's speech on civil liberties on Thursday.
His bowling was effective at times, but other players were used in the main spinner's role for Yorkshire in preference to him, and he was generally used as back-up, for example when the other bowlers had failed to dismiss well-set batsmen.
If this is true and it is also true that the culture of measurement is in the ascendancy, we might expect that things that resist measurement — quality, poetry, insight — would be dismissed and set aside, on the reasoning that if it can't be measured, what good is it?
In addition, the RSK dismissed a set of Croatian demands, including to disarm, and failed to endorse the Z-4 Plan once again.
Nkurunziza has dismissed deadlines set by the African Union as well as its failed attempt to impose an AU peacekeeping force on the country without the consent of the government.
So why do we still dismiss the younger set with a flippant "I just don't like teenage girls"?
It would be difficult for ICE to dismiss the standards set forth in the Prison Rape Elimination Act because they are regulations.
Overall, studies of IDE variants provide evidence for association with LOAD that is difficult to dismiss as a set of false positives, but the association is not compelling because replication is inconsistent and the results of meta-analyses do not achieve significance [41].
In Khan's case, however, he was unrepresented because he had dismissed two sets of lawyers following disagreements over how it should be handled.
