"proves the contrary" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means to demonstrate that something is true when it was expected to be false. For example, "Despite what people originally predicted, the results of the experiment proved the contrary".
Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy — "Blood Wedding" (1981), "Carmen" (1983), and "Love the Magician" (1986) — proves the contrary.
Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy—"Blood Wedding" (1981), "Carmen" (1983), and "Love the Magician" (1986)—proves the contrary.
But he warned people not to lash out so harshly, quoting the French writer George Bernanos: "The intellectual is so often an imbecile that we should always take him for one until he proves the contrary".
One of the main reasons I love this collection is because it offers a credible counter argument to those who insist that ethical fashion can not be design-led and affordable (£25-£95 £25-£95eating fashion that proves the contrary.
Reality, however, proves the contrary, as seldom patients in Western society are surgically treated for their herniated disc or spondylosis without a clear LSRS.
Every time I thought I now knew Jack, something would prove the contrary.
They thought themselves eternal; but a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was to prove the contrary in 1943".
"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.
To prove the contrary I could present the long list of black leaders in the New Nation who have objected to these remarks, but I really don't need to.
While many voices have ignorantly dismissed Islam – and indeed all religion – as an embodiment of ignorance, my two students are proving the contrary, as are Muslim intellectuals throughout the world.
