Based on historical records, the genetic landscape of the Bahamian archipelago is presumed to be complex and to exhibit island-specific characteristics, yet the genetic composition of the island chain, which could corroborate or refute these past accounts, remains poorly defined.
Blogging is a lot like teaching the same class year after year; you're always encountering the same arguments you've refuted in the past, and you want to demand why they weren't listening the last time.
Danone has in the past refuted charges that it sells products under the Tiger brand abroad.
Uber has in the past refuted claims that its driver-screening process is not thorough enough.
The Treasury Department has in the past refuted suggestions that its oversight of the program has been lacking.
On October 26, 2010, Levy's then-64-year-old father, Robert, took the stand and refuted statements about his past suspicions of Condit.
And yet Berlin cannot refute its tragic past -- nor does it try to.
"These weaknesses that they bring forward are decades old, and they have been refuted many, many times over," Kevin Fisher, a past president of the Science Teachers Association of Texas, said after testifying.
It is true that certain criticisms of Frost have never been wholly refuted, one being that he was overly interested in the past, another that he was too little concerned with the present and future of American society.
Now 61 and deputy first minister in the power-sharing government in Belfast, Mr. McGuinness has set his sights on a new job — a goal that has him disavowing the violence of the past, and refuting accusations that he was responsible for ordering murders in his I.R.A. days.
