Sentence examples for challenge to refute from inspiring English sources

Dr. Summers was pilloried for even suggesting the idea, and the critics took up his challenge to refute the hypothesis.

It's been a challenge to refute every slam and slur against Islam, but Muslims try to follow the example of the Blessed Prophet Muhammad, who persistently treated his neighbors with respect despite their derision.

Mr Obama's challenge is to refute the false rumours swirling around the internet that he is a Muslim, that he sympathises with terrorists and make suspicious voters feel comfortable with him.

Thus, Johann Lavater infamously challenged him to refute the arguments of the Pietist theologian, Charles Bonnet, or convert to Christianity (a challenge that Mendelssohn effectively disabled with a plea for tolerance and a series of reasons for refraining from such religious controversy).

They mindlessly swallowed Maher's arguments as unadulterated facts and challenged Aslan to refute them.

Carlos shrugs and stares hard at me, as though challenging me to refute whatever he might say next.

The challenge is for DirecTV or YES to refute it.

"Senator Bradley has had six months to refute Al Gore's challenges on the merits," he said, "and he has been unable to do so".

The first part attempts to refute Lavoisier's challenges to his work on oxygen; the second part describes how steam is "converted" into air.

The negative team is given an opportunity to refute the definition (otherwise known as challenging the definition) and offer their own, but only if the affirmative's definition is unreasonable or it renders the negative's position obsolete.

Conservative economists have to be looking out of another window, if they are trying to refute his data, though Giles doesn't challenge Piketty's conclusion for the US economy.