11.   He looked grim, distant, and she dismissed the idea as fanciful.

12.   He dismisses the idea that it is a tax on knowledge and an anti-competitive tax which would leave television news unscathed.

13.   That the Serbs are bound to object is not, of course, a good reason for dismissing the idea.

14.   Already, there is speculation that the Gephardt plan will undergo substantial revision before it comes to the floor, although Gephardt himself dismisses the idea.

15.   Although Wilmut said he saw no intrinsic biological reason why humans, too, could not be cloned, he dismissed the idea as being ethically unacceptable.

16.   And the MIT economist repeatedly dismissed the idea that markets can be swept by self-fulfilling panics that punish even nations doing everything right.

17.   Andrews dismissed the idea that the bruising primary campaign would weaken the eventual nominee.

18.   Andrews dismissed the idea.

19.   As a ranking leader of the state Senate, Jepsen has the power to call his own hearings, but he has dismissed that idea.

20.   As for his movies, Allen said he made them to keep debilitating depression at bay and dismissed the idea that they might be considered great art.