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The South's defence minister scoffed that this would be like asking a burglar to come and inspect the scene of the crime.

I looked to the pregnant woman on the bed to my right, who scoffed as if to say, "Now who's the crazy one? "

"I bet he did, " Pygmalion scoffed feebly, numbed by the sight of his wife frontally advancing, nude, toward him and their marital bed.

Aviva has no interest in ever being a mother, although two years ago she also scoffed at eye makeup and skinny jeans.

Someone actually scoffed when I said that my wife and I had never had a fight.

Mr Zuckerberg scoffed at reports that Facebook Messages could be a Gmail killer and said Google had created a really good product.

It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people.

"We are the only country, " Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche scoffed, "that has created a program worth billions to subsidize foreign industry. "

"You've been dreaming, " scoffed his wife; "that's only an ordinary brass tea-kettle. "

Back when people still talked about the "information superhighway" , they scoffed at the idea of it being impeded by toll booths.

'They're just making it up. Nobody has seen the body, ' scoffed Owais Khan, a local lawyer.

Now, people would apparently rather read about a 22-year-old English builder who scoffed two bags of watercress in under a minute.

At other moments, as I hear my agonised decorating decisions scoffed at wholesale, I dont feel very powerful at all.

"You would never get through basic training, " scoffed one of his brothers.

He had many elegancies of his own, whilst he scoffed at conventional elegance.

Brand new ideas are often scoffed at or ridiculed in the beginning.

It was a great invention but at first many people scoffed at it .

'Disastrous, ' Pan Shiyi, chairman of Beijing developer Soho China Ltd. , scoffed on his microblog account.

Several other reporters scoffed at the suggestion as well.

And he himself, for all the self-aggrandisement, has also scoffed at the notion that a president should worry about his legacy.

"Playing? " scoffed the doctor. "You're lucky to be alive. "

Both the Blue Camp and the Green Camp scoffed at such reports, saying you can't start a fire with a couple of wet logs.

In total, Mr. Fienberg says he pitched to hundreds of contacts, many of whom scoffed at the idea and told him he was wasting his time.

The results of this were published last month and, at least at first, many Wall Street observers scoffed.

The bank that's been scoffed is open now.

The girl scoffed at his proposal of marriage, but she married him later.

As better technology enables more exacting experiments, phenomena that were once scoffed at as impossible become the new norm.

If they have been informed, but scoffed, they may know what to do and where to go, and attempt to do so in great haste.

In 1982, Democrats scoffed at a surging stock market and thought a severe recession would last for a very long time.

Okay, you just scoffed at me.

But his father scoffed its plans, insisting that the Russian people born dead, never leave Russia.

At that meal, the abbot sat with the others on wooden benches in silence as they scoffed down their food in less than 15 minutes.

"That won't stop him, " she scoffed. "You know that. "

The model of banks doing business within their own regions was scoffed at for many years by the European Commission and by investment banks.

Skoll, a recent Stanford MBA graduate, initially scoffed at the auction website.

Asked about reports linking him with Juve, Rossi scoffed: "I'm already coaching a big club. "

Many scoffed. How could a man who had himself faced corruption charges, before being let off on a technicality, be taken seriously?

In 1982, when two Australian physicians first said H. pylori caused ulcers, the international medical community scoffed.

Cynics scoffed, repeating the conventional wisdom that sanctions don't work.

He had scoffed; he had wantonly associated with the reckless and the lewd.

Some of what we accept as scientific fact now will be scoffed at in years to come.

But they scoffed at insect-resistant biotech crops too.

"Rich men are materialistic, " I scoffed.

People scoffed at Jim Chanos, a well-known short-seller, who predicted that China would end up "like Dubai times 1, 000, or worse" .

A hundred years ago people scoffed at the idea that that man would ever fly.

Who has scoffed all the pastries down?

Those who scoff history will be scoffed by history.

When Mr O'Neill forecast that China would overtake the US by 2027, some scoffed.

I told them my ideas but they scoffed at them.

Shares can fall, they scoffed.

At the time, many scoffed at this idea.

This is not an ability to be scoffed at.

But residents scoffed at the idea that more than 30, 000 people lived there.

Not long ago, people would have scoffed at that prospect too.

Leaders in the Liberated Areas scoffed at that theory.

"You have a very, very old computer! " he scoffed. "Is this older than I am? "

he scoffed at taboos against eating beef