Sentence examples for able to disprove from inspiring English sources

"Whether inspectors ultimately will be able to disprove any lie by the Iraqis remains to be determined," he said.

Questions about spilled coal dust raised by the federal lawsuit should be something that the railroad should be able to disprove, or not.

The scientific community was only able to disprove the theory conclusively by turning over the 40-year-old cells for independent scrutiny.

Mr. Cheney said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday that the administration had never been able to prove the meeting took place but was not able to disprove it either.

We doubted Figes's explanation at the time – partly because excellent Russian historians were themselves publishing so many uncensored exposés of the horrors of Stalinism, and continue to do so – but only now are we able to disprove it.

He'd discovered code-breaking through his future wife, Elizebeth, a gifted cryptanalyst, while they were living on a sprawling Midwestern farm owned by an eccentric millionaire, a man who paid them to analyze Shakespeare's works for hidden codes that would reveal the true author to be Sir Francis Bacon (a theory that the couple was able to disprove).

They seem to subscribe to the "innocent until proven guilty" school of science: Everything that science is able to conclusively disprove, they'll accept.

Nevertheless, no one has ever been able to prove or disprove a certain basic conjecture about pi: that every digit has an equal chance of appearing in pi.

JB recently told police he had been enlisted to join Islamic State in Syria, but Brussels prosecutors were not able to prove or disprove his claim, Kechiche said.

His last letter, which Theo found in his pocket, has stains on it which forensic scientists have not yet been able to prove or disprove are blood.

However, we are not able to prove or disprove this conjecture because of some difficulties arising in this case.