Translation of "Abgetan als" in English

Nevertheless, obesity is often dismissed as a lifestyle phenomenon and sufferers are often stigmatized.

In the whole debate about the possibility and desirability of a European foreign policy the mission in Macedonia is often dismissed as insignificant, a mission that means nothing and from which we must not draw undue conclusions.

Too many people dismiss mental illnesses as problems of character or lack of will, rather than recognizing them as serious, often fatal, medical disorders.

Consumer policy is too often dismissed as the concern of an affluent society preoccupied with material things.

With high-performance in-memory computing, distributed systems and GPUs, we can solve problems that were largely the stuff of science fiction when I started working in data science 20 years ago.

Nationalism was dismissed as "false consciousness," as the ideology of the middle classes who used it to pursue concrete material gains.

Losing hair is a grim reality for many men – and what’s more is that it often gets written off as “that’s how it goes” or traced to family members who are also balding.

And at this very time, when I was down and out, when everything I lived for collapsed as a house of cards, when I did not know where to resume my life´s journey, the old saying turned to be true again: “Every cloud has a silver lining!”

Almost forty years ago, in Mut zur Meinung, a collection of articles she edited, author Ingeborg Drewitz, warned: 'It would be wrong to assume that the cases of actual censorship mentioned in this book meanwhile can be isolated as a consequence of public hysteria and thus discounted; hence the book may be seen as a mere summary of a fatal development.

What you want to tell Me I already know, and all the disciples know it as well, and hence we can regard the matter as finalised.

Religion in today’s society is easily disregarded either as a private affair for one’s own wellbeing and balance in life - or as extreme and political, causing terror, war and division.

The consequence has been that, although Marxists have made many mistakes, the best of them have been far better oriented than bourgeois observers, who have pooh-poohed Marxism in ‘good times’, when they have declared that capitalism has solved its problems, and have warned against the dangers of Marxism in ‘bad times’.

However, such was the lacunae among Africanists – and some African scholars[9] – such that even preliminary findings were bitterly dismissed when Mahmood Mamdani alluded to them in his ‘Lessons from Zimbabwe’.

The governing bodies and middle-class media dismissed this as a conspiracy theory or called it a mere repetition of stale news from past historical periods.

So, at least for a while, the problems of Africa will be brought to Rome, and not be swept aside as local problems, but recognized as problems that touch the heart of the Church.

The consequence has been that, although Marxists have made many mistakes, the best of them have been far better oriented than bourgeois observers, who have pooh-poohed Marxism in 'good times', when they have declared that capitalism has solved its problems, and have warned against the dangers of Marxism in 'bad times'.

As the majority of scientists, I also scorned it and rejected everything as nonsense, hallucination or maybe hysteria, as something which is most probably pathological.

I may have told some people, I don't remember -- but was probably put down, as the meanderings of a child's imagination, then.

From 'marketing experts' Besuchertausch systems are generally dismissed as a 'gimmick' or as an ineffective instrument which merely provides for increased traffic, but not for real visitors.

They will either be discredited as unfulfilled or else treated as vaticinium ex eventu (or prophecy after the fact).

In one of his rare public statements about this issue, Wilber has dismissed Dawkins as "a preacher"... Maybe, even a "Devil's Chaplain", but at least one who knows his facts.