Sentence examples for thereby dismissing from inspiring English sources

But their strokes were smooth and beautiful — the dedicated tennis lifers shrugging off decades and thereby dismissing assumptions about what the elderly are capable of doing.

Elaborating on the distinction between soul and accident, he maintains that the soul is a substance (in the sense of form), refuting the view of the "physicians" that it is a mixture, thereby dismissing all other theories according to which the soul is an accident.

We're supposed to roll our eyes when other characters – like Rob Lowe-alike Billy – call Nancy a "princess", thereby dismissing her hidden depths and ignoring her monster-slaying, but Nancy is a princess, really.

Then, the following week ["Feedback," April 10] Richard Arnold correctly pointed out that only three or four notes are the same, thereby dismissing any suggestion of plagiarism or derivative writing.

To do so "perpetuates the idea that curves are new, trendy, covetable accessories, thereby dismissing women of color whose curves existed long before it was fashionable to have them, and whose bodies have been critiqued throughout history" (as Carimah Townes wrote for Think Progress in response to Vanity Fair's Jen Selter story).

This leads, very often, to post hoc selectionist arguments, thereby dismissing the role of contingency [ 1].

Philosophically you may say that such result is in your best personal interests and thereby dismiss it from your mind.

The judge thereby dismissed a point made by the student's lawyers: "If we are to understand the dogs' muzzles as mere extensions of the nostrils of the principal, then Highland's school administrators have been sticking their noses into some singular places.

This position denies the literal truth of all the religions but does not, thereby, dismiss religious belief altogether: such belief can display all sorts of values, it may be beautiful, profound, transformative, and so on.

He also caught the other two batsmen dismissed, thereby playing a part in all 10 wickets to fall in the innings on a day when 18 fell in total.

If Federer wins the final, he will have beaten Tomas Berdych, Djokovic and Murray in three days, thereby declaring his potential for New York and dismissing concerns over his age.