Sentence examples for able to refute from inspiring English sources

As in imperial times, few will be able to refute claims of success.

"They were never able to refute a single detail in the book, but they launched incredible tirades".

She was able to refute the employer's story with the help of Kati Daffan, a first-year law student at Columbia.

Suspicious of her success, the male doctors accused her of seducing the women of Athens, an allegation she was only able to refute by lifting her skirts.

"So I feel very comfortable with being able to refute anybody who tries to pit us or pit me against Eliot".

The ultimate ruling in the case, the company said, was partly based on "assertions which were not included in the statement of objections issued in April 2000, and which the company has therefore not been able to refute".

If a leaked risk assessment contains clearly disproved accusations about a prisoner, a lawyer should be able to publicly refute it, he said.

For the moment, Powell and Marsh were able to successfully refute Cope's charges, and his allegations did not reach the mainstream press.

This means that one might not be able to experimentally refute the hypothesis that the brain acts as a Bayesian observer.

We used these sections of texts to see if they were able to confirm, refute or refine our candidate theories.

In this way he was able not only to refute the rival Blomstrand-Jørgensen chain theory but also to demonstrate unequivocally that hexacoordinate cobalt(+3) possesses an octahedral.