Sentence examples for actively disputed from inspiring English sources

While Foos actively disputed the idea that his guests were victims, insisting that their incognizance meant no one was harmed, this catalogue of ugly "behaviours" suggests otherwise.

Darwin's contemporaries eventually came to accept the transmutation of species based upon fossil evidence; the X Club was formed to defend evolution against the church and wealthy amateurs, although the specific evolutionary mechanism which Darwin provided – natural selection – was actively disputed in favour of alternative theories such as Lamarckism and orthogenesis.

After eight years of the George W. Bush administration, with an EPA that actively disputed the scientific reality of climate change, snubbed Kyoto, and opposed states like California that sought to set its own CAFE standards for automobiles, many green voters had hoped that an Obama administration would craft a radical and dramatic national response to climate change.

Yet, the state issued notices advising the public that their water was safe to drink even as federal regulators said otherwise, actively disputing the EPA's concerns.

In fact, the stress they put on the errors of their Muslim opponents, who actively dispute their interpretations of many things including slavery, makes very clear that there is no one self-evident interpretation of Islam on these points.

The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, and other prominent journals used the term "Asian Rickets" throughout the period covered by this paper, and well into the 1980s, to the apparent satisfaction of their wide professional readership, and even in articles actively disputing theories of unusual Asian susceptibility.

Among the most actively edited and hotly disputed articles on Wikipedia are those on philosophical concepts, in large part because there exists a "WikiProject" group whose sole function -- some might say "hobby" -- is to edit such articles.

A report in 2010 of the possibility in the bacterium GFAJ-1, was announced, though the research was disputed, and evidence suggests the bacterium actively prevents the incorporation of arsenic into the DNA backbone and other biomolecules.

Speaking of the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, Mr Abe said: "We own and actively control the islands, about this point there is no room to negotiate".

It is disputed whether a sphincter at the ductus venosus inlet actively regulates blood flow.

Some states have tried to justify early bans by pointing to a state interest in preventing fetal pain; the science is much disputed there, but this is a field that anti-choice activists and legislators are actively pursuing.