The complainers, though, have never refuted the contentions in either of these columns or in a detailed study I published 11 years ago, "The Failure of Technical Analysis".
The boxer gives a couple of common-sense answers to questions: he refutes the contention that boxing is a sport.
This fact refutes the contention of the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke (and of other philosophers in the Empiricist tradition) that time is perceived only as a relation between successive sensations.
They will need to refute the contention by Clemens's lead lawyer, Rusty Hardin, that McNamee was "at the end of his rope" emotionally and financially when he made his accusations about Clemens to Mitchell's investigators.
To refute the contention -- lampooned on a cover of Ms. magazine -- that feminists have no sense of humor, this exhibition illustrates the lighter side of the women's movement.
But perhaps more than anything else, Mr. Booker's goals over the next four years seemed to be aimed at refuting the contention raised by Mr. James during the campaign that the pedigreed 33-year-old councilman was merely using the city as a political steppingstone.
Torre told him, "You're my second baseman," and the core veterans acted as if he had gone home early Thursday night with an upset stomach, and they all continued to refute the contention that Knoblauch has become anything more than an occasional threat to the fans behind first.
One of the principal concerns of Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, et al., was to refute the contention that action is always motivated by self-love.
The author further suggested that the measured data refute the contention that deforestation necessarily results in an increase in large-scale flooding and conversely that forestation would decrease the frequency or magnitude of such flooding.
John M. Robertson published The Baconian Heresy: A Confutation in 1913, refuting the contention that Shakespeare had expert legal knowledge by showing that legalisms pervaded Elizabethan and Jacobean literature.
