brushed aside

Laws that civil rights leaders fought so hard to establish are being brushed aside.

Hirsch has noticed that sometimes parents get intimidated and brushed aside, but it is their right to intercede.

Unexpectedly, the underwood behind the speakers was brushed aside and Hadria appeared before them.

Theirs149 was not a happy lot—strangers in a strange land, heeded by none, save to be brushed aside when in the way.

But there was something odd—Dalgard brushed aside a tendril of weed which cut his line of vision and so was able to see clearly.

It angered him to feel a matter of such deep concern brushed aside.

Such testimony as is afforded by the foregoing incident is not lightly to be brushed aside to make way for an abstraction.