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  • noun Plural form of dismissal.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    New Rule: We Need More Maher...and in Real'r Time 2007

  • 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.

    FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles 2009

  • 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.

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 3/4 2010

  • 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

  • The dismissals are the first under a rigorous new evaluation system launched this year.

    Rhee fires 241 D.C. teachers 2010

  • [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

  • The dismissals are the latest embarrassment in the U. S.'s struggle to manage its security contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    Firm Fires U.S. Embassy Guards in Kabul 2009

  • 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • 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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