In the meantime this personage had been quietly dismissed from active service.

The young clerks served a five-year apprenticeship and learned to speak Inuktitut before being promoted to junior traders; if found incompatible with their surroundings, they were quietly dismissed.

The prowler charge was quietly dismissed, and we placed our son in a suitable institution.

If it did, he would have been quietly dismissed.

The complaint, like most complaints against most lawyers before most grievance panels, was quickly and quietly dismissed.

He was quietly dismissed with two games left in the 1976 season.

If Esterhazy were really a traitor, he would be dismissed from the army quietly; another Dreyfus affair was to be avoided.

When wrongdoing was uncovered, the officers would be quietly dismissed or transferred.

Last month, however, the case was quietly dismissed at the government's request.

Phil Watson suffered an ulcer and was quietly dismissed as Ranger coach and replaced by Alf Pike.