Its astonishing information is prepackaged and dispensed, not discovered.
Jesus has become the beneficent big brother, dispensing not judgment but limitless encouragement for personal growth.
I see a situation comedy that has dispensed not just with jokes, but also, for the most part, with any straight-ahead attempt at comedy.
"Ondaatje has dispensed not only with plot, but also with character, sadness, laughs, writing style - the whole shooting match," objected Harry Mount in the Sunday Telegraph.
Today, government finds the limitless power of dispensing not in Madison's Constitution of limited government but in Wilson's theory that the Constitution actually frees government from limitations.
Mr. Abiy can achieve real progress if Ethiopia embraces a different kind of federation — territorial and not ethnic — where rights in a federal unit are dispensed not on the basis of ethnicity but on residence.
But from now on, when it does resurface, the persona it conjures up will not be a genial, universally beloved dad, but a sexual predator dispensing not wisdom but date-rape drugs.
The commission says that this patronage would be dispensed not simply on the basis of religion, which the constitution forbids, but because India's religious minorities are, by definition, deprived.
There's a risk in all this [talk about cuts] that the Government will come to be seen not so much as Stanley Baldwin but as Victor Meldrew, dispensing not the early Cameron change, optimism and hope but inertia, pessimism...even despair.
