On first presenting our plan at a peer-review meeting held with leading NGOs, we were all but laughed out of the room.
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She refused to be drawn on whether she would compete at the Rio Games in four years time but laughed off talk of a possible retirement.
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Thomas was forced to apologise but Owens laughed it off as just banter.
People laugh at me when I say that, but they laughed at me when I said I wanted to be singer, and I'm a singer now.
But Martinez laughed at the suggestion that Benitez might be persuaded to send Liverpool captain and star England midfielder Steven Gerrard to the Liberty Stadium as well.
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But doctors "laughed at" him when he suggested doing human tests, he says.
Yes, he is in Coughlin's mold, he said, but he also laughed that he probably makes Coughlin calmer, that he can be the yin to his coach's yang.
Mr. BEN JARVIS (Affirmation Member): And all of the other boys in the class laughed, but I just sat there completely stunned because I finally had a word for what it was that I was feeling.
She coughed, and they laughed, but soon enough she got the hang of it, except that when she exhaled she did a funny thing: she blew out again and again, like a woman practicing for childbirth.
Someone laughed, but in a moment several passengers were up and banging on the doors and windows until a man in a uniform came down the ramp and peered in at us with his hands cupped at his temples.
Most can be laughed off, but one of them is going to hurt, perhaps terminally.
"At 208 mph, you have no friends--but me, " Greco laughed, as I climbed from the car.
"This is a resistance hero, " I exclaimed, but the Memorial researchers only laughed.
Imagine if movie producers could not only instantaneously know the age and gender of people in the audience but also in what exact second they laughed, cried or got angry or disappointed.
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Bert laughed during the film too - but also underlined its deeper qualities.
One of them laughed and mumbled, "But then we might catch a cold, it is not worth taking a chance like that".
When asked about the apparent contradiction between being trustworthy enough to operate on a human brain but not trustworthy enough to drive, they both laughed, shrugged and began to discuss their expectations for life after they are actually are neurosurgeons.
She laughed, she cried, she hurt, but it seems like a legend that never happened.
"Initially I laughed at the idea of such a limit, but now understand that this is not as fanciful as it sounds, " said Ms Radcliffe.
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The pitcher picked it up on the run and tossed it for the out but then skidded across the infield dirt on one knee as teammates laughed.
"We joke about (the potential for a sequel), but I don't know where it would exist, " Rogen laughed.
But Honda came along with a tiny little motorcycle (50cc) that most people laughed at.
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Ms Onwurah said Dr King's words were a revelation, that "people would have laughed at the idea of a black woman becoming an MP", but he made that possibility very real by visiting her home town.
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