When he played for Manchester United, Alex Ferguson used to dismiss requests for interviews, saying with some frustration: "I'm lucky if he speaks to me".
Public organisations such as TfL often dismiss requests for information out of laziness, shrouding masses of data that should rightfully be in the public domain to protect a few nuggets where a confidentiality clause is necessary.
Reinforcing Russia's support for Mr. Assad, a senior official in Moscow dismissed requests by Western and Arab governments for a halt in weapons shipments to the Syrian Army.
Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, yesterday dismissed Chinese requests for compensation and an apology over the arrest.
Wani claimed that the US embassy in Khartoum had dismissed his requests for help as a US citizen after his wife was jailed.
"At every step in this process," Mr. Wilpon and Mr. Katz said in a statement, "the Trustee has dismissed our requests for information in his possession when we have cooperated fully with him".
In 2002 Francis Mer, newly installed as French finance minister, dismissed commission requests for budget cuts to comply with the stability and growth pact by saying that "France has other priorities".
"This was a constant conversation," Mrs. Clinton said, noting, however, again that she did not personally approve or dismiss specific requests for additional security for State Department officials in Libya before Sept. 11.
Mr Banks claimed Vote Leave had dismissed his request for a merger after two senior figures, Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings, were sidelined in a reshuffle.
Mr Justice Collins last week dismissed a request for a judicial review of the SFO's decision, saying the application was "wholly unarguable".
