But these technocratic policies are hardly going to be discredited in Britain by a change of American president.

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Hanging on to already discredited senior management might not be worth it.

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Senior judges heard that PSNI officers forced their way into the home of the new witness and warned him he would be discredited if he went to court.

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You also made much of the thoroughly discredited claim that organic farming requires more land to be brought into cultivation.

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First, bad ideas must be so widely discredited that professors become too embarrassed to espouse them openly or associate with colleagues who do.

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Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said closing prisons and reducing prison numbers "offers major social and economic gains" but warned it "would be a gigantic mistake if the justice secretary were to revive the discredited idea of titans and pour taxpayers' money down the prison building drain" instead of investing in crime prevention, healthcare and community solutions to crime.

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"So-called 'sceptics' should now drop their thoroughly discredited claims that the increase in global average temperature could be attributed to the impact of growing cities, " he said.

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You have a doctor who longs to be part of that world, and of course has this amazing discovery and is then discredited.

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