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    1. worship, baptism, and apostasy, and know how to refute errors concerning these and other


    2. "I've heard them, and I've heard him refute them


    3. Before Andy could refute this suggestion, the shit really hit the fan


    4. Nixon knew better but, due to international security concerns, he was not in a position to refute Kennedy"s charges


    5. This opinion is not intended to refute in any manner the remarkable contributions to our society by the many individuals who continue to emigrate to our shores every year


    6. Such ―denials‖ are symptomatic of a politically correct society utterly determined to refute the past by sweeping ―offensive‖ expressions under the carpet and making believe they never existed rather than acknowledging that such indiscretions…


    7. A formidable opinion must be willing to confront the testimony of other opinions that might otherwise seek to either refute or discredit its (tested) propositions


    8. (Iraq/Iran/Syria/Libya/North Korea); that is to say, nations that support terrorist causes, notwithstanding the overwhelming volume of circumstantial evidence that, rightly considered, common sense should not (otherwise) refute, must inevitably undermine our nation‘s ability to properly defend itself


    9. This is oftentimes the case whenever social and political expediency advances behavioral assumptions that experience and common sense otherwise refute


    10. ‖ Goodness lies in Humility of Purpose; without intended purpose, however; that is to say, undetermined and without motive; an impartial or uncertain ―Will‖ to Goodness that internally defines the Self; a Goodness that does not issue from the Conscious Self but the Hidden Self, rather, that must necessarily refute its own ―apparent goodness‖ or the self-sustaining content of its (own) intentions

    11. ” This is very easy to refute


    12. With no witness to back me up, I’d have no way to refute that


    13. Berlinski further disappoints me in his implied assumption that Darwin was the last significant word on his theory of evolution, and then proceeds to use later understandings as evidence to refute Berlinski’s atheist opponent’s assertions


    14. She could publicly refute it, of course—and be arrested and charged along with Huss and Jerome


    15. so that it was used to put to shame, and refute some who were still trying to reject the


    16. Even the most ardent global warming fixers haven’t as yet offered a theory to refute that embarrassingly inconvenient truth


    17. For if life is a random occurrence, and if morality is just a matter of convention, then no argument can refute our position or block a programme of unrestricted scientific research


    18. I truly wish I could deny it, young fellow, but I can’t refute your arguments


    19. When everything is ready, a guard will take you up to the judge - and saying this went out and we had not time to refute


    20. - She was going to refute when Leonardo's look kept her silent

    21. During those moments, I kept silent and my telltale face lit up with the sudden fascination that produced the magician in me: his manners, the soft tone of his voice, the gallantry of his forms, and the fineness of his robe (which Beatrice would have nothing to refute)


    22. If there was something to refute it was the companion hanging on his arm: Duprina, who in her winding walk, was constantly whispering phrases to his ear and laughed with the rural charm of a partridge


    23. A wave of indignation took me by assault and started to refute each of his accusations:


    24. one Synod does not refute a previous one, but only confirms it


    25. He could not refute the monstrous thing which Conan's words implied


    26. ―Mother? Mother?‖ Then a shout, ―Mother!‖ Words uttered without conviction, as if Joe Billie wanted someone to refute him


    27. book that refute any possibility of a free will spiritual ability of an


    28. If not, I will refute them


    29. The following false theologies might not have much meaning to you at this point, but as Christ’s vanguard you will need to recognize and refute them: liberal theology, liberation theology, prosperity theology, and the social gospel


    30. White fundamentalists published this study Bible in 1909 to refute white liberals’ false doctrine

    31. I’ve discovered evaluations of previous information that are “Warren Commission” suspicious, and try to refute what was there, but not with good logic


    32. Their self-serving actions refute the


    33. There could be no doubt that this was a clear-cut case of murder, as there was no indication of suicide and the apparent manner in which he had died would refute such an allegation, though this would be the most convenient solution in that Terence had taken his own life out of overwhelming guilt for his own crime


    34. If you honestly feel it would help me, I guess I can't refute that


    35. “Have his connections ever been wrong?” Wickland countered, knowing Higgins could not refute the strong track record Doug had through his


    36. because of the existence of so many other variables that can refute a hypothesis


    37. is not to prove a theory, but to get the reader to think in terms of possibilities - and - even if he or she so chooses, ways to refute this research


    38. Marshal Zhukov took on him to try to refute his arguments


    39. “Would you like to refute these charges?”


    40. Like him, let us point to the resurrection of Christ, and confidently challenge all fair and reasonable men to refute the evidence by which it is supported

    41. frenzy because a forensic examination of the wreck will either confirm or refute


    42. Ailia thought for a moment, but she couldn’t come up with anything of value to add to or refute his statement


    43. And who was she to refute that?


    44. They are intended as ammunition to refute the condemnation of lesbian


    45. Krishn has attempted to refute the misconception


    46. So, the whole meaning of the statement “Failing were the hands of Abu Lahab” in short is that: Abu Lahab failed to drive the right away or refute it, and his opposition was of no use and resulted in nothing for him


    47. “Allah’s victory” here refers to God’s support to His Messenger when He revealed the right on his tongue and inspired from the indication and demonstration what enables him refute his opponents’ claims and disprove the pretexts of his opposers and enemies


    48. In Arabic it comes either to emphasize the speech (yes=of course) or to contradict and refute it (yes= nay, nay)


    49. Therefore, the word “yes=nay, nay” came here to refute this belief


    50. Having revealed that the deeds of the libertines are that which shackle them and that nothing of their actions is neglected, the Almighty wanted to refute their pretense of that the believers deprive themselves of pleasure and bliss when they abstain from giving their spirit its whim or succumbing to its desire









































    1. ‘… which has re-activated local discussion concerning Mrs Elizabeth Wynell, the woman who was helping police with their enquiries recently, but the police have refuted any suggestion that Mrs Wynell is connected with this


    2. Many of the public had picked that up and the Kassikan had not refuted it


    3. repression, given any chance, will be refuted


    4. You may even have the chance of seeing it refuted


    5. ” I refuted this as I replied


    6. not for outing, but for lying, not the kind of lying like “I had no sexual relations with that woman” (distinctly refuted by the blue dress), but the kind of lying that came from raking over reams of testimony in an attempt to find a failed recollection


    7. When scientists seek to advance such facts as this regarding global warming, Foster notes, they are not “scientifically refuted,” but are “howled down as ‘deniers’ or industry shills


    8. I refuted that spurious claim by telling him I had not only had reason to doubt this assertion, but that it was exactly the same excuse that Mickey had given during our one and only prior conversation in February after I took cognizance of the balloon contract, i


    9. This gentleman’s reports were always crisp and to the point, but often in part refuted in response from Roy


    10. My father’s legacy is not one to be forgotten, and what he worked for all his life should not to be ignored or refuted

    11. “We have publicly refuted him, re-iterating that Sorrin was a leader of the insidious conspiracy and therefore shared responsibility for dozens of murders, and declaiming any interest in war with Venak


    12. “That still doesn’t justify it,” Penn refuted the


    13. It is my objective to reveal and clarify the basis of the socialists’ manner of thinking (philosophy) so that the pattern of those collectivists’ actions and vocalizing can be properly categorized, anticipated, confronted, and refuted


    14. Feeling the pain that we doubted his words, he refuted with a powerful and vigorous voice, coming more from hope than from veracity:


    15. The life would continue without me! Without me! Which I have not lived yet! Without me! I refuted to the idea that everything would continue imperturbable although I should not exist! In just hours, my sisters and friends would speak about me in past tense


    16. Severa stopped the fork that was making the journey from her bowl to her mouth with a load of fried egg and bread and refuted:


    17. This contraption seemed to have no effect because the boy shaking his hand and wiping it on his pants refuted:


    18. figures could not be refuted


    19. The test was also negative for a pistol (nitrates on both hands is inconclusive and likely the result of other contaminants) He documents the false trail of finger print evidence that the FBI fingerprint supervisor, with 32 years of experience, refuted when Lt Day of the Dallas Police shows up with a latent print 4 days later (when the expert saw none the day after the killing on the same weapon)


    20. They did a rubber stamp of Hoover’s Oswald case and ignored or refuted everything that disagreed with this verdict

    21. Thus, any article mentioned concerning the animal’s suffering and pain is refuted by the wisdom folded in pronouncing the Name of Al’lah over the animal which the Almighty has legislated


    22. The empirical certainty of divine union can neither be verified nor refuted by current science


    23. Although “Vicary” later refuted his original claims, the


    24. refuted this by arguing that if it were like this everyday then the


    25. The enemies of supernatural religion have never refuted that evidence, and they never will


    26. “Ah, but she is,” Eiess refuted


    27. Scholars are faced with an onslaught of truths, refuted by as many counter truths, in a disordered metaphysical laboratory where every assertion is promptly contradicted


    28. But Krishn refuted him and affirmed that there would be varnsankar only if he was not assiduously engaged in his appointed task


    29. No doubt, their opposition is refuted, and the rest of this fortress reveals all of that in details so that no man that has thought may deny it


    30. They do not mention the rest of the verses, lest their speech be refuted and the deception uncovered

    31. “…but Al’lah duplicates what the devil throws in …”: that is, the Almighty shows a copy of the devil’s insinuations to the messenger so that they can be refuted for the truthful disciple


    32. “Why does he intend to marry me off at twenty-three, with a much older man?” She refuted


    33. ” She refuted while rubbing her cheek


    34. However, this assertion can be refuted with many valid


    35. Not once did the revolver jump up and start firing! With this experiment he refuted, once and for all, the argument that guns are dangerous


    36. we have been fed through religion and mysticism can now be decisively refuted


    37. "Nah," Lisa refuted, her eyes on the road


    38. Behind it all, however, glowed a determination that could not be refuted


    39. This is an interpretation void of logic, and is just what the Lord refuted


    40. The Apostle refuted this error by the admonition,—the devils also believe, and tremble; reminding its victims at the true faith was an active principle which works by love

    41. of humanistic psychology — completely refuted this concept


    42. He probably would have refuted Plato without reading him, in the same fashion in which he supposed himself to have refuted Bishop Berkeley's theory of the non-existence of matter


    43. Used today as a theoretical concept only, and well refuted by a number of events and empirical studies


    44. She cited Keith Herman’s paramour, Lynnette Lagrande, who not only refuted Herman’s alibi for the time of Jennifer Herman’s murder but would also testify to and document the fact that Keith Herman wanted out of his marriage


    45. “Let me put it to you frankly: the evidence has not been refuted, because it cannot be refuted


    46. The lawyers and experts were lost in admiration, and were only at a loss to understand what good purpose could be served by it, for all, I repeat, felt that the case for the prosecution could not be refuted, but was growing more and more tragically overwhelming


    47. And such science is springing up in our times; but, on the one hand, such true science is denied and refuted by all those scientific people who defend the existing order of society, and, on the other hand, it is considered empty, unnecessary, unscientific science by those who are engrossed in experimental science


    48. And the most remarkable of all is, that just as false Christianity, so also Hegelianism has fallen, not because someone refuted or overthrew it; no, it is now as it was before, but both have only become no longer necessary for the learned, educated world


    49. Doubtless you know better than I the striking and brilliant paradox of Proudhon: La propriete c'est le vol—a paradox if you like, but one that has never yet been refuted by the sermons of cowardly bourgeois or fat priests


    50. Independent of this reasoning, which cannot be refuted, at every session since we have been a Territory, there have been laws passed altering the ordinance in some shape or other





    1. This fact refutes the possibility that NDEs have any relation to


    2. This also refutes the possibility that NDEs are


    3. This refutes the possibility that the


    4. This book refutes the Warren Commission findings


    5. But Krishn refutes this later by asserting that Self alone is the changeless and eternal Sanatan Dharm


    6. This refutes the claim of the unbelievers and proves that all what the Prophet (cpth) brought had been issued from Al’lah


    7. Sheikho Refutes his Opposers


    8. While this writer refutes the contention advanced by some Christian who wrote to him that watching movies is against the tenets of Christianity (and the Christian who wrote to him isn’t the only such person), Brandon himself made a rather absurd statement – “The Bible should be the foundation for art, film, literature, science, education, politics, law, business, economics, and more


    9. 44- The Great Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho Refutes his Opposers


    10. As for what some people think of that the Almighty taught our Master Adam (cpth) the names of pots, utensils animals, plants and other beings; it is absolutely far from that sublime meaning indicated by the noble verse, as well as the context of the verses refutes that utter refutation, because the rank which he will ascend to be a successor of God on His land and a leader and a guide for His obedients does not need that God teaches him the names of pots and utensils, yet it requires from him to have his heart colored with kindliness and mercy and other perfect qualities

    11. Why did we interpret God's saying: "He said: Adam, tell them about their Attributes…": to be tell them about My Attributes which you showed them, although the word in the noble verse was "…their Attributes…" and not My Attributes? we say, we have seen that this story drives but at showing the sublimity of our Master Adam (cpth) and his advancing over the noble angels in the knowledge of God's Attributes which made him worthy of ascending the rank of succession, and we have also clarified that that purpose implies that the intended meaning of the word "…Names…" mentioned in this story in but the Godly Attributes, and the course of the story definitely refutes any other meaning


    12. So, this verse refutes any statement that is in conflict with the Qur’an


    13. The fact that he did not do so certainly refutes their allegations


    14. " Anyway you look at it, the eight times Rephaim is used it refutes the belief of going to Heaven at death and does to support it


    15. 66:23, 24)…Instead of favoring eternal torment, it boldly refutes it, and leaves our opponents standing off to themselves, gazing through their theological glasses at the most inimical disproof of their belief


    16. But the man who says that the movement of the wheels is the cause refutes himself, for having once begun to analyze he ought to go on and explain further why the wheels go round; and till he has reached the ultimate cause of the movement of the locomotive in the pressure of steam in the boiler, he has no right to stop in his search for the cause


    17. And the proof of the untruth of his evidence he refutes with a new lie


    18. It refutes itself


    19. [13] That the abuse of authority exists in America, despite the small number of troops, by no means refutes our argument; on the contrary, it serves rather as a testimony in its favor


    1. The first was from California Confidential informing me that John Koflanovich, or one of his representatives, will be making a statement on the show this evening, refuting his connection to the Russian Mafia


    2. at the University of Cologne in Germany, presents his definition of the Third Way, refuting the argument that the third way model is a


    3. Gāndhiji had no hesitation at all in refuting the idea of dividing India on the basis of religion


    4. Nevertheless, even the Democrats recognized him as someone who made grade points as a speaker, which they found difficulty in refuting


    5. Judge KarSol had anticipated Tammas refuting the charge with an emotional


    6. Then, the Almighty said refuting the thought which negates man’s returning to Him:


    7. Therefore, the noble verses have been revealed refuting those sayings and frustrating those false pretenses


    8. But as to our Master, the Messiah (pth), there is no verse in the Holy Qur'an indicates his death, and had he been dead (pth), the Almighty would have clearly stated such matter as he has stated concerning our Master Mohammad (cpth), yet, He would have repeated it in many verses as there are people who deify the Messiah Master, whereas, the verses have been revealed clarifying that he is asleep, and that he and his mother are existing in a peaceful hill-side watered by fresh spring, besides other verses refuting the pretenses of being a god like His saying, the Almighty: "the Messiah, the son of Mary is no more than a messenger: other messengers passed away before him


    9. It’s very important to understand that the Creator is directly refuting the claims of the religion called Judaism and its assertions that its followers are of the tribe of Juda, simply because they follow a religion


    10. scientists are now refuting this data

    11. the Creator is directly refuting the claims of the religion called Judaism and its assertions that its


    12. It’s the same as “proving or refuting of religious evidences within


    13. ‘Let us understand one another, Countess,’ said he with a smile, and began refuting his


    14. But the universal historian Gervinus, refuting this opinion of the specialist historian, tries to prove that the campaign of 1813 and the restoration of the Bourbons were due to other things beside Alexander’s will- such as the activity of Stein, Metternich, Madame de Stael, Talleyrand, Fichte Chateaubriand, and others


    15. By refuting these new laws the former view of history might have been retained; but without refuting them it would seem impossible to continue studying historic events as the results of man’s free will


    16. The counsel for the defence had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, in consequence of the


    17. For instance, books and sermons appear, demonstrating the antiquatedness and absurdity of Church dogmas, as well as the necessity of establishing a reasonable religious perception suitable to our times, and all the theology that is considered to be real science is only engaged in refuting these works and in exercising human intelligence again and again to find support and justification for superstitions long since outlived, and which have now become quite meaningless


    18. “Let us understand one another, Countess,” said he with a smile, and began refuting his spiritual daughter’s arguments


    19. But the universal historian Gervinus, refuting this opinion of the specialist historian, tries to prove that the campaign of 1813 and the restoration of the Bourbons were due to other things beside Alexander’s will—such as the activity of Stein, Metternich, Madame de Staël, Talleyrand, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and others


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    Synonyms for "refute"

    controvert rebut refute invalidate dispute deny contradict belie counter discredit

    "refute" definitions

    overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof


    prove to be false or incorrect