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- noun Plural form of
dismissal .
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Examples
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I believe the number of REAL DADT dismissals is quite small — and even this small number is tainted since everyone knows some have used DADT as a way to evade being deployed.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Relative Risks of HIV Infection Among Gay and Bisexual Males 2010
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For the second week in a row, Bill Maher hosted a Bush apologist on his HBO "Real Time" who threw out the "every President does it" justification to defend the midst-of-term dismissals of eight federal prosecutors.
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The question presented is simply whether existing laws are adequate to avert the apparent or actual politicization of major charging and subsidiary prosecutorial judgments by the mid-term dismissals of U.S.
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That’s why DADT can’t officially end until Congress passes a law ending it though, as I said, the president could be doing more to nibble around the edges by doing things like blocking dismissals from the service.
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University President James Ammons referred to the dismissals in a memo he sent earlier this week to members of the FAMU Board of Trustees, but didn't specify what the four students did.
FAMU Band Scandal: Robert Champion Had Vomit In His Mouth When He Died, According To Emergency Call 2011
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The dismissals are the first under a rigorous new evaluation system launched this year.
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[TNR] • "The falsehoods [were] largely part of an effort to disguise the obvious fact that the dismissals were the implementation of a political plan which had been formulated in the White House [and] to disguise ... an elaborate scheme ... to circumvent the process through which candidates are reviewed and confirmed by the Senate using a secret amendment to the USA PATRIOT Act."
::Puts Head in Hands, Shakes It Side to Side:: - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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The dismissals are the latest embarrassment in the U. S.'s struggle to manage its security contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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They want the court to rule that the consequence of the dismissals is a direct infringement of their right to equality and the right to adequate public health care services.
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But the government has decreed a "temporary" ban on dismissals, which is renewed each time it expires.
Out For Revenge? 2007
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