41.   Patten also dismissed fears that granting residency rights to Hong Kong people could lead to millions of emigrants leaving for Britain.

42.   A top World Bank official dismissed those fears.

43.   Although U.S. officials have warned that cancelling the Enron contract could deter foreign investments in India, many Indian analysts dismissed those fears.

44.   Although both men are known for their command methods of leadership and are said to be authoritarian, Gorbachev dismissed fears of a new dictatorship in Russia.

45.   An investigating detective dismissed her fears of being alone with him so soon after the rape.

46.   Aquino said the airline and the union are continuing talks on a memorandum of agreement and dismissed the fears of mass layoffs as speculation.

47.   Asian officials have dismissed such fears.

48.   But the Freedom Union welcomed the appeal, dismissing fears that hard feelings between them and the Civic Democrats could mar any future coalition.

49.   China dismissed the fears as groundless.

50.   Frontier Minister Pompeyo Marquez also dismissed fears that villagers will be subject to guerrilla attacks.