The same cause gradually led them to dismiss the unnecessary part of their tenants.

This leads him to dismiss much of the work of Borges, for example.

But a candid examination in one of the pier-glasses of the drawing-room led him to dismiss the fear.

This assumption about Egypt's strategic plans, known as "the concept", strongly prejudiced the department's thinking and led it to dismiss other war warnings.

The folk wisdom led Tory politicians to dismiss opinion poll findings suggesting the opposite.

That example leads many people to dismiss talk of comedy being in serious trouble.

But procedural difficulties led the Court to dismiss that case after argument.

This later led him to dismiss the album as "mechanical music".

The reassessment will no doubt confuse many people and lead some to cynically dismiss regulators who "can't make up their minds."

This kind of he-said-he-said debate often leads people to dismiss a subject as one about which nothing will ever be known with confidence.