Sentence examples for negate the concept from inspiring English sources

The new findings do not negate the concept of vegetative state, Dr. Posner said, but "it means that our diagnoses are not as accurate as we used to think they were".

"I have no hesitation in apologizing not only to the Sikh community but to the nation because the riot negated the concept of nationhood," he said.

People changing planes at JFK airport have been known to nip over in taxis to get a glimpse before nipping back in time for their next flight, which somewhat negates the concept of a leisurely stroll in the park.

Buddhism negates the concept not only of the individual self but of the atman as well, asserting that any sense of having an individual eternal soul or of partaking in a persistent universal self is illusory.

Moreover, it negates the concept of "one drug fits all".

Finally, (4) this study negates the prevailing concept that CO2 uniquely signals ONE-GC activity (Sun et al. [19]; Guo et al. [21]).

Although it has been suggested that obesity arises in such situations because of a shift in the set point (Mrosovsky and Powley, 1977; Stunkard, 1982), such notions effectively negate the utility of the set point concept.

To promote the idea that everyone is beautiful negates the concept.

A desire to use market concepts to improve equity in primary health care does not negate the need for governments to intervene in markets to ensure that they have more equitable outcomes than they do at present.

One particular explanation invokes the concept of facilitative uptake of protein-bound drug into hepatocytes a process which would, at least partially, negate the unbound drug hypothesis (Burczynski et al. 2001; Poulin et al. 2012).

The concept that some large fraction of some introns may be under selective constraint for a specific function does not negate the possibility that neutral segments of the same intron may be under selection for transcriptional efficiency.