| Cameron is quick to disabuse anyone of the idea that she had a happy, randy, angst-free childhood. |
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| The rash of strikes on the railways and elsewhere should quickly disabuse them of that delusion. |
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| After some time spent in a futile effort to disabuse him of some of his favourite ideas, she was rendered speechless. |
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| Descartes first tries to disabuse the reader of the belief that his sensations or experiences are like the things that cause them. |
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| I suggest that a long period of discussion with a former Governor of the Reserve Bank might disabuse him of that strange idea. |
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| There was a rather quick and direct response by people to disabuse me of such a ludicrous idea. |
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| If you have any fantasies about a pastoral past full of sunshine and sweet moments, unsullied by the grim industrial monuments of the current day, this should disabuse you. |
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| Having always liked Reagan, since interviewing him during his first run for governor in 1966, I didn't want to disabuse him of one of his pet ideas. |
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| This should disabuse anyone from the idea that, left alone, he will do what is necessary to provide for his people. |
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| The region would be a good deal safer if the rest of the world did more to disabuse them. |
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| I must disabuse the House of that fact because that is not what will happen. |
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| The training should be structured so as to disabuse the public of erroneous beliefs and preconceived ideas about insurance. |
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| I would like to provide a few clarifications, in order to disabuse those listening to us who may think we are discussing the place of religion. |
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| We must disabuse ourselves of this perhaps half-ironic but still telling aphorism. |
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| As a former agent himself, Horrigan hopes to disabuse renters of the notion that brokers are mercenary con artists. |
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| No amount of sweet-sounding oratory is going to disabuse him of his hard-driving partisan agenda. |
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| Now, I do my best on every occasion that I can find to disabuse them of this notion, and to point out and to emphasize the links between our worlds, because, of course, there are similarities. |
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| And if, this year, Afghan security forces survive their first full fighting season without NATO firepower, it might disabuse those militants who believe that only American forces are denying them victory. |
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| But Germany and others are determined to disabuse them. |
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| If they were thinking negatively, we needed to try to disabuse them. |
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| Ken, being a native North Dakotan, was eager to disabuse me of that notion which, as things turned out, he certainly did. |
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| I hope they do not perceive it as some sort of soft option and I hope the Commission will disabuse them of the idea that could, in any way, be the case. |
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| I hate to disabuse you, but she parrots what the bureaucrats say. |
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| The testimony of Mina seeks to disabuse us of such an illusion. |
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