Sentence examples for dismissed it for from inspiring English sources

Some academics dismissed it for lack of historic documentation in all but a few cases, but others were more supportive, and he continues to find the visual evidence compelling.

When a gentleman claimed the actor who plays Corrie's Sally Webster had been racist towards him in a chippy in the Lake District, we dismissed it for the nonsense it clearly was.

When Google first rolled out its productivity suite way back in 2007, I checked it out like everyone else; then ultimately dismissed it for use as a "real" productivity tool.

The show received mixed reviews by critics, who praised the show for being innovative but dismissed it for taking the attention away from the music.

Michael Hubbard of MusicOMH complimented the song as "brilliantly catchy, deceptively simple and wonderfully melancholy," while Sarah Hajibagheri from The Times dismissed it for being a "painful Latino warble [and] a would-be Eurovision reject".

Detractors dismiss it for its alleged incoherence and uncritical intellectual permissiveness.

Watson dismisses it for four, an authoritative shot a little like a headmaster ordering a scolded schoolboy out from his study.

I would have been more respectful of this decentralizing genius than Obama was, more nervous about dismissing it for the sake of collective action, more concerned that centralization will lead to stultification, as it has in every other historic instance.

But in an era where behavioural economics has reached the highest levels of government it would be simplistic to dismiss it for that reason: Even people who can pay off their credit cards often don't, since the whole structure of the credit-card industry is designed to make you irresponsible--as long as you make a small monthly payment, the bank will carry you.

Wall Street likes the idea of merging DreamWorks with Vivendi's entertainment business, although Katzenberg dismisses it for now.

Though he accepts the proposed account as offering the best explanation, he nonetheless dismisses it for the express reason that it grounds "only a probability" — it does not provide the "basis for a necessary inference that some body exists" (Med. 6, AT 7 73).