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A huge voter turnout belied predictions that disillusioned Iranians would stay home.
Retail sales in October jumped 0.8% on the previous month according to the office for national statistics (ONS), belying predictions of a consumer slowdown.
The huge turnout on Friday belied predictions that Iranian voters would stay home, disillusioned because Mr. Khatami's promised reforms were bogged down in conservative hostility.
Here in Changsha, the Xiang Jiang River -- a major feeder of Dongting Lake and a focal point of this month's floods -- dropped by several feet today, belying predictions of a peak surge.
PARIS -- As the wily Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo remained cornered in the basement of the presidential residence in Abidjan on Saturday, his forces retook the offensive in a series of military actions, belying recent predictions of his imminent downfall.
And as Mr. Kagan chronicles with numbers and history, the United States remains the world's dominant power by virtually every benchmark, with a resilience that has belied earlier predictions of decline.
Today's entire proceeding belied the predictions of politicians and pundits alike that the governors, who have run their provinces like fiefs since the days of President Boris N. Yeltsin, would fight to the end Mr. Putin's plan to curb their powers.
Mr. Bush's success thus far belies the predictions of many Republican strategists, and many backers of Vice President Al Gore, who said the Texas governor would trigger an outcry if he returned to the more moderate path he had scrupulously followed throughout 1999 before his sharp detour to the right -- symbolized by his appearance at Bob Jones University -- in late February.
Nothing about G.M. belies that prediction.
Seemingly indifferent to the chaos and belying many experts' predictions, stock markets had their best year since 2013, with the closely watched Dow Jones industrial average ending 2017 up a staggering 25percentt.
