Sentence examples for example dismissed from inspiring English sources

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, for example, dismissed the Volcker idea on Monday.

Booz Allen Hamilton, for example, dismissed almost 9percentt of its consultants last year.

Mr. Bloomberg, for example, dismissed the role of the City Council early on, a political miscalculation that almost cost him his antismoking legislation.

Also at the Atlantic, James Fallows has a contrarian (i.e., basically pro-Obama) series of posts on the President's trip to Asia, which Les Gelb, for example, dismissed as not worth taking.

Ms. Townsend, for example, dismissed a reporter who asked whether the fact that Al Qaeda has regrouped in the area from which it planned the 9/11 attacks suggested that it was a mistake to divert American forces to Iraq.

Benjamin Franklin, for example, dismissed most of Christian doctrine as "unintelligible". He believed in a deity who "delights" in man's "pursuit of happiness". He regarded Jesus as a wise moral philosopher, but not necessarily as a divine or divinely inspired figure.

Jacques Delors, for example, dismisses the polling evidence as much less significant than the history and the deep structures which he believes bind Britain to America.

To gamble that more money would eventually come could mean the chaos of, for example, dismissing teachers midyear if the bet did not pay off with a supplemental budget giving more aid.

He discusses, at some length, differing versions not only of events in his own life (for example, dismissing the calumny that he was a hotel-room trasher) but of larger events, including the Lewis and Clark Expedition, about which he read extensively, concluding, "People's experiences and memories are so subjective.

Most unexpectedly, he exhibited a lightness of touch in difficult moments that enabled him to keep the focus on his preferred themes; for example, dismissing Mr Salmond's complaint that Scotland did not want its Tory-led government in Westminster by revealing, tongue-in-cheek, that he had never voted for Mr Salmond either.

It was not exactly a survival of the fittest, and no one came out of that episode well – not Padel, not Walcott, not the male commentators (Melvyn Bragg, AC Grayling) bleating on their high ground, not the women who blamed it all on misogyny (Jeanette Winterson, for example, dismissing Oxford as "a sexist little dump").