Without directly disproving the allegations, the company claimed it was the victim of a plot by its media rivals, including the Express group which is a distribution partner of the New York Times in Pakistan.
His disquisition on light, aimed at disproving Newton, was way off-beam.
But across the range of their policies, the Tories still match more of our template than Labour does; and Peter Lilley's recent ideas about privatising pensions for all but the poor offer a bold and encouraging sign of what a re-elected Tory government might achieve, as well as disproving any notion that the party has run out of ideas.The principal risk lies in Europe.
That is a handy rule of thumb, but one that post-communist Europe is disproving.
And slowly but surely, the tribunal is disproving Mr López Obrador's claims.The official vote count gave Felipe Calderón of the ruling conservative National Action Party PANN) victory by 244,000 votes, or just over half a percentage point.
Above all, he will have to work much harder at disproving Nixon's "dumb" jibe if he is to beat Hillary Clinton.
Mr Kerry also won in Michigan, Washington state and Maine a couple of days before, so he has now racked up victories in every part in the country, disproving the argument of his most plausible rival, John Edwards, that he cannot win in the South.
Santa Cruz chose to improve the municipal water utility instead, using World Bank loans, as La Paz had done (and so disproving the myth that the Bank lends only to privatised schemes).Cochabamba had bigger ambitions.
In 2009 Mr Harkin said it had "fallen short" and bemoaned its focus on "disproving things" rather than approving them.
A theory is a hypothesis that has stood up to a battery of tests aimed at disproving that hypothesis.
Gegenbaur confirmed German zoologist Theodor Schwann's hypothesis that all eggs and sperm are single cells (1861), and he supported the British biologist Thomas Huxley in disproving the concept that the vertebrate skull arose from expanded vertebrae.
