Sentence examples for disproving a claim from inspiring English sources

Like K5, the bipartite graph K3, 3 is not planar, disproving a claim made in 1913 by the English recreational problemist Henry Dudeney to a solution to the "gas-water-electricity" problem.

"The legal position that pregnancy disproved a claim of rape appears to have been instituted in the U.K. sometime in the 13th century," the medical historian Vanessa Heggie wrote in a blog post for The Guardian on Monday.

TRIPOLI, Libya — The rebels seeking to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi claimed minor victories on Wednesday in some of their last footholds at both ends of the country's coast as they battled to hold off the Qaddafi forces' superior firepower and to disprove a claim by one of Colonel Qaddafi's sons that the last of the insurrection would be wiped out "in 48 hours".

To disprove a claim on generality, a numerical example is sufficient.

We are engaged in asymmetrical warfare: telling a lie is easy, while disproving a false claim is difficult.

The reasoning behind this, which has its origins in Roman law, is that firstly someone with a good cause of action should pursue it with reasonable diligence; secondly that a defendant might have lost evidence to disprove a stale claim; and thirdly that long-dormant claims have more "cruelty than justice" in them (Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th edition).

Given the degree to which most of the p values deviate from statistical significance, however, analysis of a substantially larger cohort would be required to disprove such a claim.

It has hobbled the work of prosecutors by requiring them to disprove a shooter's claim of self-defense when a slain victim cannot contradict that claim.

PAUL Created in 1886 to disprove a New York City newspaper reporter's claim that Saint Paul was "unfit for human habitation," the Saint Paul Winter Carnival is the country's oldest and largest winter festival.

To top it off, Trump's NOAA administration responded to the tweet below with a simple cartoon disproving his claim.

Despite being factually disproven, it's a claim that many still believe.