1.   Institute officials dismiss the suit as nonsense.

2.   Saudi officials have dismissed such reports as rumours.

3.   The official dismissed the speech as the ramblings of a desperate lunatic.

4.   Last Tuesday a top Belarussian Olympic official dismissed the allegation, suggesting intrigues within the team as the motive.

5.   Although U.S. officials have dismissed some of those potential witnesses as unreliable, they said the prosecutors in New York had interviewed others whom they considered credible.

6.   America West officials dismissed the move as a negotiating tactic.

7.   Although there are two remaining sticking points, Braves officials dismissed them as secondary.

8.   American officials dismissed that notion on Monday.

9.   American officials have dismissed the charge, saying that smaller, faster jets bear responsibility for keeping out of the path of larger aircraft.

10.   American officials immediately dismissed the Russian move.