Sentence examples for contradicting years from inspiring English sources

Despite that, the committee has concluded that the torture was an ineffective means of gathering intelligence on al-Qaida – contradicting years of CIA assurances it was crucial – and that the agency lied to its overseers about its value.

PAGE A12 VIDEO OF BOSNIAN FUGITIVE Bosnian public television has broadcast videos of Europe's most- wanted fugitive, the Bosnian war commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, contradicting years of Serbian claims that he had disappeared.

His comments contradict years of assurances by British ministers that "no US detainees have ever been held on Diego Garcia".

It may help forestall an Olympic scandal, but it also contradicts years of Justice Department resistance to what the department has viewed as Congressional meddling in prosecutions.

In an interview with CNN last week, he admitted to having authorized American drone strikes in the tribal belt — a statement that contradicted years of denials of complicity in the drone program, and which was considered politically disastrous in a country where the drones are widely despised.

Nash's resulting paper on game theory - sensationally contradicting 150 years of Adam Smith's self-interest, me-first philosophy - makes his name.

A20 SPORTS D1-7 Rose Admits Baseball Bets Pete Rose has admitted that he bet on baseball in a book that will be released on Thursday, contradicting 14 years of denials.

The Socialist education minister of the time, Lionel Jospin, now prime minister, argued for tolerance, only to be contradicted five years later by his conservative successor, who argued that any "ostentatious" symbol should be banned.

"The intervention of the Justice Department contradicts 40 years of federal efforts, by presidents of both parties, to improve access to higher education by disadvantaged groups," says Fattah.

This assertion was contradicted 20 years later by the invention of turbo codes (TCs) [1], which was a revival for the channel coding research community.

However, though all assumptions have been contradicted for years, no change has been made in the policy.