1.   Does the Minister discount that possibility?

2.   Nor can we discount the possibility that some factor in the diet itself has harmful effects.

3.   Thompson discounted the possibility that Dole would give him the nod.

4.   And no one discounts the possibility of violence.

5.   Anne Stevenson-Yang, director of the U.S.-China Business Council in Beijing, discounted the possibility of strained bilateral relations intruding on the operations of U..

6.   Authorities did not discount the possibility that Hollywood himself could have logged on to ask the agents questions.

7.   Aviation experts, however, said that engine problems rarely destroy planes, and they felt no possibility could be discounted.

8.   Because no mutilation was reported, Keppel discounted the possibility of satanism.

9.   A new state election law has the opposition virtually discounting the possibility of ballot-stuffing, repeat voting and other once standard practices at the polls.

10.   Aides, however, did not discount the possibility of further charges against more peripheral figures.