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It would discombobulate Congress and disserve the public for months.

Specious mathematical comparisons, as cited in the article, disserve the public.

It misleads the American people, and it will disserve him if he does run for president.

And CBS has done nothing to disserve its golf masters.

Do movie stars deserve Shakespeare or disserve him?

Contrary to Mr. Mallement, this comment does not disserve the nation and its history.

The city is likely to pursue the issue in a manner that safely ignores the cultural dynamics involved, and that will disserve a great many families.

In shielding students from military recruiters, universities disserve both their students and the military whose policies they hope to liberalize.

According to Fromm, authoritarian religions disserve the individual by denying their individual identities, while humanistic ones provide for personal validation and growth.

The problem is that because cops are professional witnesses, the system makes it easy for the few bad ones to develop considerable aplomb as they disserve the truth for their own ends.

It is not within our charge to speculate that, "where face-to-face confrontation causes significant emotional distress in a child witness," confrontation might "in fact disserve the confrontation clause's truth-seeking goal."

The issues in the Freehold case "demonstrate how application of a constitutional principle in a doctrinaire manner, while promoting one community interest, will disserve a competing community interest," Judge Wolin wrote.

The agreement states, "When a fully informed and competent pregnant patient persists in a decision which may disserve her own or fetal welfare, this hospital's policy is to accede to the pregnant patient's preference whenever possible."

The archetypal uncontrollable creation-gone-amok is Frankenstein's monster , commonly familiarized to Frankenstein by the incognizant who thus disserve Mary Shelley's Baron Frankenstein, the monster's creator.

I think the borough presidents' power on the Board of Estimate has been the means by which those machines have perpetuated their corrupt powers, and the powers that disserve the citizens of New York City.

Judge Conboy stressed that his order did not force C.C.N.Y. "to continue to disserve its own students by subjecting them in class to the bigoted statements and absurd theories of any of its professors."

"If, as seems likely, there is a threshold of necessary acquisitiveness to maintain the system's elan vital, so there is also a limit beyond which acquisitiveness no longer serves, and may well disserve, the adaptability of the order," he writes.

The Supreme Court's intervention in the ballot-counting dispute would "disserve the national interest" by further prolonging the dispute and driving it in "untoward and unprecedented directions," the Gore legal team said in a 31-page brief urging rejection of the Bush appeals.

In a motion filed today, the prosecutor, United States Attorney Leon Kellner, said, "Laudable as the project envisioned by this court may be, we submit it would disserve and cause disrespect for our system of justice, and only emphasize that the rich can trade money for liberty while the poor cannot."