Sentence examples for rebuttable from inspiring English sources

The Mayor of London, who will be standing as a Tory MP next year, wants the law to be reversed so there is a "rebuttable presumption" of guilt until people are proved innocent.

First, you offer an idiotically rebuttable line.

In a second decision issued Wednesday, Johnson v. Williams, No. 11-465, the court ruled that there is "a strong but rebuttable presumption" that a state court has actually ruled on all of the issues before the court even if its decision did not specifically address each of them.

It shifted the way we thought about the relationship between government action and economic growth, making less means more the rebuttable presumption of policy proposals.

A black associate at one Houston firm, who requested anonymity so as not to jeopardize his chances of making partner, used a familiar legal term to describe his unease at work, saying he sometimes felt there was a "rebuttable presumption" that he was there to fill a quota and was not as qualified as white colleagues.

The perception might be "rebuttable" but it "leaves a police officer in a difficult position" if they have to explain that relationship "before they explain why they did or didn't do something".

Some in policing believe the law should be changed to further protect armed officers, but Chesterman's view is that it does not need to, although the procedures could be improved: "There should be a rebuttable presumption they have done nothing wrong, unless the evidence shows otherwise".

Johnson said those who "continue to give allegiance to a terrorist state" should lose their British citizenship and called for a "swift and minor change" to the law so there was a "rebuttable presumption" that those visiting war areas without notifying the authorities had done so for a terrorist purpose.

In South Africa there is a rebuttable presumption that a child between the ages of 10 and 14 lacks criminal capacity.

An utterly un-rebuttable statement of strength.

"The law needs a swift and minor change so that there is a 'rebuttable presumption' that all those visiting war areas without notifying the authorities have done so for a terrorist purpose".