Nor, she said, is she hesitant to dismiss people who do not measure up to her standards.

And they made needed changes swiftly, even if that meant dismissing people right before Christmas.

It was also easy to dismiss people who quit the church.

I suppose it's a way of labeling and dismissing people.

"He frequently dismisses people who differ from him on the basis that they don't understand the question."

"I think you're entirely too ready to dismiss people as impossible," said Trumbull.

"Rather than just dismissing people who are racist, I wanted to show why they get the ideas that they do," he said.

It's the practice in our church to dismiss people and not consult them.

"You don't dismiss people as a way of improving people," he said.

"If companies can dismiss old people and pay young people nothing, what have we been working for?"