Sentence examples for attempted to refute from inspiring English sources
Borgström attempted to refute this speculation point by point today.
Mr. Stamboulidis attempted to refute the judge's remarks by suggesting that he simply did not understand the national security issues.
A certain Ruth Comfort Mitchell attempted to refute the novel in a vindication of California's treatment of its immigrant workers, in a now-forgotten book entitled Of Human Kindness.
In this manner, his Tractatus contra haereticos ("Treatise Against Heretics") attempted to refute heterodoxy on rational grounds; and his Theologicae regulae ("Maxims of Theology") assumed that the principles of the faith are self-evident propositions.
In her book Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (1996), the American classicist Mary Lefkowitz attempted to refute most of the assertions made by Bernal, Diop, and others.
In these works he attempted to refute such Cartesian first principles as "Cogito ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am") and the "clear and distinct" test for the truth of an idea.
"It must still be getting to a good many Russians," he said, "because the government there often publicly attempts to refute the things we say.
But when Mr. Obama took the stage in San Antonio, he seemed bent on reiterating her point — or at least he didn't attempt to refute it.
Most people attempt to refute criticisms, he says: "Thus, if someone calls them fat, they might respond by telling him their recent body mass index (BMI) number".
Explain that formal debates are verbal contests in which equal numbers of participants engage each other, one side arguing in support of a given (positive) statement and the other side attempting to refute that statement.
In attempting to refute the Big Bang, for example—which he characterized as a "ridiculous" idea Carson said: You have all these highfalutin scientists, and they're saying that there was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order.
