But it should be possible to make that case through individual assessment, not with a blanket dismissal of the claim.

A blanket dismissal on technical grounds no longer resonates as it once did, those experts say.

They are not interested in blanket dismissals.

In explicating the virtue of "truth," issues a blanket dismissal of oath-taking: "among true men there is no need for oaths."

I am also sorry to hear her rather blanket dismissal of mother-daughter relationships with "all the Sturm und Drang" that goes on between them.

They fear that a blanket dismissal of non-Hanfu dress could lead a step further, towards a rejection of the West that goes beyond clothing matters.

Also, it's unfair to submit a blanket dismissal of everything Jung even remotely considered while viewing his apparent anti-Semitism from the luxury of the 21st century.

The government was said also to have acted under pressure from hard-liners in the ruling Congress (I) who favoured the blanket dismissal of all BJP ministries.

Although Plato does not make a blanket dismissal of all art, Ms. Murdoch says, his area of acceptable art is very small - even smaller than that advocated nowadays by the followers of Jesse Helms.

When Attorney General Janet Reno first announced the blanket dismissal of about 70 United States Attorneys who are Bush Administration holdovers, her aides said she might exempt those needed to wrap up significant investigations.

Tim Graham, a representative for the Media Research Center, which labels itself a conservative organization, said that although he thought it was easier to prove liberal bias at the broadcast networks than conservative bias at Fox News, he took issue with Mr. Ailes's blanket dismissal of such incidents.