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He brushed aside Bettie's thanks. " You are a brave woman, " he said, "whether you are telling the truth or not. "

" He brushed aside Bettie's thanks. " You're a brave woman, " he said, " whether you're telling the truth or not.

He was eager to look at the test tube to see the changes and brushed aside the safety spectacles that Jenny was holding out for him.

All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him.

Their decision to sign onto such a document was surely not taken lightly, and their words should not be so brusquely brushed aside.

You hate it when your words of wisdom are brushed aside, so be sensitive now and you'll learn something of enormous value.

Expressing Silicon Valley's version of corporate Darwinism, Gates claimed that Microsoft could be brushed aside by the next guy in a garage.

He brushed aside my request for a salad and said that, with six hours to go until we reached Belgrade, goulash was in order.

Doubts about faked fireworks at the opening ceremony and a mimed performance by a perfect little girl singer were brushed aside.

He then placed his finger on the coin, while he brushed aside some loose impediments so that he did not move the coin.

Fernando Torres has brushed aside questions about his Liverpool future but admitted the club needed to improve issues off the field.

Kenyan officials have so far brushed aside concerns for the mangrove swamps and nearby marine sanctuary.

The dollar also weakened sharply as any benefits from a quick result were just as quickly brushed aside.

As he flew here on Air Force One, Bush's national security adviser brushed aside Chavez's provocations.

The enemy brushed aside our defences.

All such extraneous considerations should be brushed aside, for the acquisition of knowledge is nobody else's business but one's own.

I beg you to consider this and not let it be brushed aside and all these possibilities lost to us in the critical months that lie ahead.

In acquitting the three photographers, the court brushed aside the notion that the inside of a car is a private space.

Mr Emanuel brushed aside concerns that an Obama administration would risk taking on too much when it takes office in January.

Whitman and others who considered it brushed aside the query with the assertion that America would create a new kind of literature.

The defenders had long since been brushed aside, as they had known they must be.

Investors again largely brushed aside reports Wednesday that showed inflation remains tame and the housing market continues to sputter.

They brushed aside questions about parliamentary democracy being undermined by a minority of streetprotesters.

Even if all these concerns can be brushed aside, turnout in the run-off was probably fairly close to the first round's 23%.

The Togo striker scored his fourth goal in three starts as Villarreal were brushed aside in the Champions League on Wednesday night.

The Red Devils brushed aside their problems to romp to their highest scoring away win in Europe for nine years at the OlympicStadium.

Fears of a sharp slowdown in China growth have been brushed aside with EZ sovereign debt concerns taking center stage.

Though the regime has for decades brushed aside Western sanctions and resisted all pressure to reform, some things have changed since 1988.

He brushed aside the call for a register with the claim that "we have a pretty good system in the UK" .

He also brushed aside Clinton's complaints about his mailings.

At Euro 2008, they brushed aside World Cup finalists Italy and France to finish top of their group, only to fall to Guus Hiddink's Russia.

He brushed aside my objections to his plan.

Although his argument was brushed aside at the time, there was indeed a slowdown in 2001 and 2002.

Nobody has brushed aside my excuse yet, or said, "Can't your wife do it? "

Jonathan Zhu, head of China for Bain, brushed aside fears.

All our protests were brushed aside .

The Chinese economy has battled through, and brushed aside, a succession of local, regional and global crises in the past decade.

Mr Herzog has brushed aside queries about working for the Chinese regime.

This is a serious question and not lightly brushed aside by any gibberish about "proletarian democracy. "

Some complaints will be brushed aside.

He brushed aside our objection.

And now of I, see the earth has a coin, see at a glance of the past, it brushed aside.

The clean-energy business is turning into the next big investment boom, in which risks are lightly brushed aside

in a long time the author ' s copyright is brushed aside , the benefit is randomly encroached , even bereaved

Obama brushed * aside the notion that his rhetoric is insubstantial. He says he would inspire the people to come together to solve problems

but she quickly brushed aside the distraction