Sentence examples for dismissed potential from inspiring English sources

Coughlin dismissed potential excuses for the running struggles, including injuries.

Major also brought up and dismissed potential motives, saying that authorities did not believe there were any racial factors, noting that the suspected shooter and the three injured people were all white.

First, the judge dismisses potential jurors "for cause" if they can't be impartial.

In recent years, Justice Department lawyers have used the privilege not only to eliminate key pieces of evidence but also to dismiss potential legal challenges altogether.

It's exhausting and frustrating when you dismiss potential comrades because of their language, background or behaviour and fail to remember it takes time to learn/unlearn how we act.

Dismissing potential jurors who might favor either the prosecution or the defense has long been a tenet of the American jury system; the right to an impartial jury is guaranteed by the Constitution.

In a careful, 167-page opinion, the judge found "race was a significant factor in decisions to exercise peremptory challenges" — the practice of dismissing potential jurors — in death-penalty cases in the state generally and in the county where Mr. Robinson was tried.

"A tool such as the [bulk collection], which allows investigators to triage and focus on those who are more likely to be doing harm to or who are in the United States, or that allows investigators to dismiss potential homeland connections to ongoing terror threats or plots is valuable," Cook contended.

"No government regulator, and very few members of the media, understand how these mediums are being leveraged by campaigns," Moffatt said, dismissing potential regulation for tech platforms as "a knee-jerk reaction".

A 1986 Supreme Court ruling made it unconstitutional for attorneys to dismiss potential jurors for reasons based upon race or gender.

That would fit a longstanding pattern of the gun lobby dismissing potential public safety consequences in its campaign to loosen gun laws, critics contend.