All this might be dismissed as a re-run of the ill-judged Japanophobia of the 1980s.
Yet concerns about China should not be dismissed as simply this year's intellectual fashion.
In most Muslim countries, in ordinary times, such language would be dismissed as hot-headed nonsense.
DC, opposition to the agreement tends to be dismissed as nitpicking that ignores a fundamental shift.
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But Machen said Jackson's illegal activity could not be dismissed as the result of recent mental illness.
East Timor, a former Portuguese colony that was annexed in 1976, can be dismissed as an aberration.
Clearly the comments I was hearing could be dismissed as anecdotal and unrepresentative.
This could all be dismissed as just the typical and typically baffling internecine doings of Japanese politics, but for one thing.
They cannot be dismissed as left wing radicals: most are officers from combat units who have served on front lines.
The 2011 Giants, meanwhile, cannot be dismissed as an inconvenient speed bump, as they were in the buildup four years ago.
Gower believes Peter Moores could be dismissed as England coach before his side fly to the West Indies on 21 January.
Still other types of claims would likely be dismissed as too speculative.
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"With a company of Google's size, almost any penalty can be dismissed as insufficient, " commissioners wrote in their statement accompanying the agreement.
But Cambodia's court system is so weak and politically subservient that the trials would almost certainly be dismissed as a kangaroo court.
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The record of the Boeing board in picking chiefs prone to ethical lapses is too long to be dismissed as mere bad luck.
It is striking how many of the stalls are run by people who in the west would be dismissed as too old to work.
Countries such as Chile, Colombia and Israel have used crawling bands successfully over extended periods, so the idea should not be dismissed as impossible.
Castro's lawyer Michael Farkas said he expects the state charges against his client to be dismissed as long as he keeps cooperating with federal officials.
"Of course, this is a baseless, malicious lie, but it should not be dismissed as a cynical campaign tactic, " Noriega wrote in an online post.
They tend to be dismissed as impractical toys by industry incumbents.
If the embarrassment could somehow be dismissed as nothing but a blip in a meaningless fixture, worse came when they played a match that definitely mattered.
He said it was a complex area and called for a "much more rational discussion" and not for those opposed to be dismissed as "old fogeys".
If that commission were to conclude truthfully that the IDF conducted its operations in full accordance with international law, its findings would be dismissed as a whitewash.
It made me squirm then to hear in the midst of all this talk about winning people over that young, single women can be dismissed as a demographic.
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Some of the furore can be dismissed as unwarranted sinophobia.
Of course, Americans may confound skeptics again by continuing to shop, and many economists don't think stronger growth recently can be dismissed as a mere quirk of the inventory cycle.
Considering his murder took place on the ministry's premises -- and one co-interior minister has already said he knows those responsible -- the investigational failings cannot be dismissed as rank incompetence.
And now, owing to the Left's anti-Israel onslaught, anyone murdered in Jerusalem - or anywhere else for that matter - will be dismissed as a product of fully justified Muslim anger.
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