"The president's disregard for views in other nations, borne out by his neglect of public diplomacy, is giving birth to an anti-American century".
A Justice Department office with about half a dozen officials reviews petitions and recommends whether requests should be granted, although presidents are free to disregard its views.
In a news conference last week, Russia's newly appointed fuel and energy minister, Igor Yusufov, said Russia would disregard OPEC views in deciding whether to increase exports.
I really care nothing for Medvedev or Putin, neither do my friends in Russia, who have always tended to disregard the views of any politician whatever their coloration.
If the participants say this is how they want it to be, it is not appropriate for us to disregard their views.
That a country should disregard the views of more than 18% of its population is staggering, particularly given their potential for creativity and divergent thinking, as explored by Sir Ken Robinson.
Later in yesterday's session, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey became the third moderate Republican leader from the Northeast to suggest, if obliquely, that party leaders should disregard candidates' views on such contentious issues as abortion in the months ahead.
On Iraq, it disregards the view of Democratic voters generally and the delegates in particular that the war was a mistake and that the United States should withdraw combat troops as soon as possible.
What we can safely say, *if* we disregard the views of the renegade reporter above is that the large purpleish skinned things with yellowy/orange flesh (on the right in the picture above) are swedes.
Critics condemned his tendency to make unilateral decisions and disregard the views of his entourage, a number of whom resigned or were dismissed.
