21.   While students acknowledge that distractions like an odd accent might throw off their concentration, many discount notions that the problem is complex.

22.   Wilson discounted the notion that people who were born in America might object to carrying such a card.

23.   Principal John Buchanan discounted any notion that inaugural planners picked the Pearl High School band for that reason, noting that it has won numerous awards.

24.   And Shostak is not discounting the notion that the aliens may be as surly as recent popular culture portrays.

25.   Coach Bobby Ross discounts the notion that his team is benefitting from lessons learned from the first Bucs-Lions game.

26.   Some analysts discount the notion that China will insist that Gao and Qin serve out their sentences.