1.   The theory was dismissed as a lot of hot air.

2.   He dismissed their theories as mere speculation.

3.   Anyone dismissing this theory should note that while the President has risen in the polls in recent months, his job approval ratings have hardly moved at all.

4.   But Liberal Party chairman Raymond Harding, a political adviser to Giuliani, dismissed such theories.

5.   But Ricklis dismisses theories that the Karankawa came to the mission only to eat.

6.   But specialists interviewed Tuesday dismissed the theory.

7.   But the French archaeologists who excavated the site a century ago dismissed the theory as myth.

8.   But Thompson dismisses that theory.

9.   But Vasella flatly dismissed that theory.

10.   Djerejian dismissed the theories as Washington gossip.