But we can officially dismiss their plan.

Democratic lawmakers have dismissed Mr. Levy's plan, saying that the city and state could not possibly find enough new money.

In the process, it has jumped well ahead of rivals and chastened those who had dismissed its plan as pie-in-the-sky.

Billy Hunter, the union's executive director, dismissed the owners' plan as a "masquerade" to obtain a salary cap without exceptions.

The British authorities dismissed his plan and threw him into prison.

This week, most Democrats, led by Howard Dean, dismissed the president's plan contemptuously.

He went so far as to dismiss his father's plan as cowardly.

Critics from all quarters dismissed Geithner's plan as vague and inadequate.

Schomberg dismissed William's plan, to force the river crossing, as too dangerous but the normally cautious king overruled him.