An experienced politician would have dismissed the allegations as irrelevant.

Religious politicians dismiss such talk as hyperbole and politics, arguing that the religious are not seeking or achieving anything new.

But nationalist politicians and many atomic energy officials in Russia dismiss the concerns as Western propaganda.

While politicians and policymakers may dismiss these gardens as expendable, they are community magnets, full of innovations any gardener would admire.

But politicians here quickly dismissed the idea, describing the President as untrustworthy.

Not long ago American politicians dismissed Mr. Fox's notion of a more open border as a populist delusion.

At the time he filed the suit, many politicians dismissed the case and Mr. Emery as quixotic.

Yet several politicians still claimed there were no sacred sites and dismissed Guboo's claims as 'idle fantasies'.

Unionist politicians accused him of naivety and dismissed the truce as a publicity stunt.

Other politicians dismissed his statements as ludicrous; some accused him of being an intelligence agent seeking to make his predictions a reality.