"Everyone I've talked to keeps dismissing him for one reason or another: that he's from New York, that he's moderate, that he's wrong on one social issue or another," said Frank I. Luntz, a Republican pollster who worked for Mr. Giuliani in his 1993 and 1997 mayoral campaigns.
In the past he keeps dismissing the lawsuits against him as just "a civil lawsuit," not a criminal action for fraud.
As the price went up past 600p, Cable kept dismissing it as "irrational exuberance, froth, speculation".
Still, as governments defending currencies against devaluation have repeatedly found, it is hard to plan sensibly for an eventuality you keep dismissing in advance as unthinkable.
Regarding the search for a new president of Boston University Educationn page, Nov. 19), you claim that I "kept dismissing possible candidates, among them Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser".
"People keep dismissing tonight as unimportant; I don't and I know Steve doesn't," said Gold. "We have got to brush ourselves down and come out battling against United.
Then, just before Thanksgiving in 2008, at a hearing, Mr. Shaw looked at the families of the two dead scientists and decided he could no longer keep dismissing the phone records that showed he was texting, even though his lawyers advised him to remain quiet.
Being a self-described TV snob might make you feel smug, but as long as we keep dismissing lighthearted programming and the content of TV aimed at women, it will be given its own space, and packaged and sold to us as something offensively sparkly and silly.
I kept dismissing the thought.
They implored me to read the book, but all I imagined was a similar Bela Lugosi character constantly threatening, "I vant to drink your blood... .. and kept dismissing them.
As we were sitting around listening to music and asking them what they'd like to record next, we went through dozens of pop and rock 'n' roll songs, and they just kept dismissing them.
