Sentence examples for proved the contrary from inspiring English sources

When documents proved the contrary, he played down any involvement in the massacre and told The Associated Press that the Zvonimir medal was handed out "like chocolates" to all German officers.

When they stopped, I told them I was very sorry to have any accusations to bring against the government which I belonged to, and which I would gladly serve to the utmost of my power, but I must say that facts proved the contrary to their plea; and gave a short account of our Legislature's treatment of Ashfield, which was very puzzling to them.

Steve and Al proved the contrary when they began publicly berating Auriello on The Grube Tube, a show being funded by the very cable company in question.

Dompo is their first language, thought to be extinct until a field work trip of Blench in 1998 proved the contrary.

It is very difficult to prove that both registries have complete coverage in Costa Rica even though no study has proved the contrary.

Every time I thought I now knew Jack, something would prove the contrary.

Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy—"Blood Wedding" (1981), "Carmen" (1983), and "Love the Magician" (1986)—proves the contrary.

They thought themselves eternal; but a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was to prove the contrary in 1943".

Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy — "Blood Wedding" (1981), "Carmen" (1983), and "Love the Magician" (1986) — proves the contrary.

"The permanent difficulty with this argument is that you can never prove the contrary," said Mark Heller, a senior researcher at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

At trial, if petitioner makes a prima facie showing that he has in fact been prejudiced by the State's delay, I would then shift to the State the burden of proving the contrary.