(1) It sounds like self-congratulation for disbelieving incorrect forecasts of rain, then proudly stepping into a hailstorm without an umbrella.
(2) It happens within a society where we repeatedly hear victims dismissed, belittled and disbelieved at best, or, at worst,blamed for their own assaults.
(3) 'I've no reason to believe these rumours or disbelieve them.'
(4) I look at him – and the house – disbelievingly.
(5) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
(6) The year after the joint UK-Libyan operations were mounted, Straw told MPs they must disbelieve allegations of UK involvement in rendition "unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state which is in league with some dark forces in the United States".
(7) Lest you think that the headline does not fairly represent the content of the column, Blackhurst, in explaining why he would never have allowed his newspaper to publish any of the documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, actually wrote: If the security services insist something is contrary to the public interest, and might harm their operations, who am I (despite my grounding from Watergate onwards) to disbelieve them?"
(8) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.
(9) Discarding the difference with the disbelieving sects, and considering co-existence with them as the true societal bond that the ummah must operate in accordance with in order to preserve its goals, while in reality protection is implemented for the rights of all the communities of disbelief while oppressing the Sunnis and their principles.
(10) Last night, Letterman turned his legendary ironic wit on himself , revealing to an unprepared and frankly disbelieving TV audience that he had been the victim of a $2m (£1.25m) blackmail plot.
(11) Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military.
(12) With the stadium still in disbelieving raptures from the heroics of Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford, Farah took to the track to huge cheers knowing that at least a dozen of the 29-strong field were capable of mounting a serious challenge.
(13) Judge Thokozile Masipa found no reason to disbelieve Pistorius’s story and convicted him of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter.
(14) Clinton’s share of the ballot among union households in Ohio dropped sharply on previous elections as Trump’s focus on jobs and trade resonated with voters who, polls showed, believe international trade takes away US jobs and disbelieved Clinton’s claims of an economic recovery.
(15) The report claims that these studies "could not have been clearer" in their description of the situation in Rotherham, adding that the first of these was "effectively suppressed" because some senior officers disbelieved some of its data.
(16) But my performance made it impossible for attendees to disbelieve, forcing them to recognise that sexual interactions that are often dismissed as normal are too often instances of sexual violence.
(17) I guess this is where the Holocaust really became the Holocaust .” Familiar as we now may be with concentration-camp footage, it might seem hard to realise that there was a good 15-year period after the war where the Holocaust was essentially disbelieved.
(18) Well, I'll show you what tough is ..." Whereupon he seized a steak knife and violently stabbed himself in the leg, watched by the disbelieving Ali, who had no idea Reg had a false leg and was reduced to gobsmacked silence.
(19) I'm inclined to disbelieve everything he says, but at the bar, another local man says it's true.
(20) During a Newsnight interview in December 1999, Bowie found himself evangelising the impact of the internet to a mostly disbelieving Jeremy Paxman.
Ignored
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Ignore
Example Sentences:
(1) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
(3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(4) No one expected us to win either of these byelections, but we can’t ignore how disappointing these results are,” he said, referring also to last week’s Richmond Park byelection.
(5) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(6) He wanted to ignore Fallope, Vesale, Eustache, Fernet, minor authors.
(7) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(8) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(9) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(10) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(11) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
(12) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
(13) It is resulted from a wrong interpretation of the lung pathology shown in an X-ray picture or its complete ignorance, absence of a regular double reading of fluorographic images, constant shortage of fluorographic films and presence of risk factors.
(14) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
(15) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(16) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
(17) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
(18) The correct formulae, which are available from the theory of age-dependent branching processes, are often ignored in the biological literature, perhaps due to their complexity.
(19) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(20) The circumferential stress in the vessel wall was greatly increased by diabetes; great errors will result if the opening angle is ignored.