When Tebow's legion of teary, touchy fans rush to his defense, however, they are rebutting something that seems more or less imaginary the "outrageous attacks" of hate-filled seculars who hate what Tebow "stands for".
If a teammate is accusing you of something, rebut and somehow deflect the blame on someone else.
They want to know what they did wrong, and if it is now possible to do something to rebut the accusations from abroad that Iran is staging a show trial.But even if Iran had been less clumsy with its public relations, the case was destined to have a life of its own.
The details of the criminal referral were classified, so Steele could not know the nature of the allegations, let alone rebut them, but they had something to do with his having misled the Bureau about contacts that he'd had with the press.
To rebut is to contest or deny something; to refute is to prove that it's wrong.
You wonder, in fact, if these two albums with Price were partly inspired by a desire to rebut the idea that dancefloor pop is something you outgrow, a narrative arc they probably find trite and depressing.
Nevertheless, Miliband's inability to rebut criticisms that are longstanding and widespread is very much something that he has to take responsibility for himself.
You can't, of course — or in 800 words of print or in a blog post — but you can start a conversation, advance or rebut an argument, and give people who share your interest something to talk about.
His purpose has been "to examine and rebut the many myths of Lusitania," and his book has something of the close argumentation and carefully prepared ground of a legal proceeding, so that the disaster almost seems a mere prelude to its aftermath of hearings and evasive governmental maneuvers.
JUST NOW: Former GOP Rep Charlie Dent says, "It makes me think the Russians have something". Putin and Trump, for their parts, offered similar talking points to rebut the idea that Putin is pulling Trump's strings.
