Sentence examples for refuted the theory from inspiring English sources
Astronomers found it difficult to establish the likelihood that all these events would have occurred, and the discovery of Charon provided information that further refuted the theory.
[Note: That is, it must be used only in factual cases.] Correct: His work refuted the theory that the Earth was flat.
It's a pity that none of the authors note that the events in Hungary refuted the theory, advanced by Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism," and widely believed in the West almost until the end of the cold war, that Communism had reduced entire populations to a permanent state of cringing subservience.
They refuted the theories in which parity was conserved and supported or confirmed those in which it wasn't.
This work led him in 1835 to refute the theory (reintroduced by Christian Ehrenberg) that microscopic organisms have the same organs as higher animals.
If auteur status is conferred, as its early theorists argued, by a recognizable and consistent set of themes, gestures and motifs, then Mr. Soderbergh's résumé can start to look like a deliberate attempt to refute the theory.
For example, failure to demonstrate positive transfer between mathematical training and general reasoning ability could be attributed to ineffective teaching of mathematics; in such case, the results need not be interpreted as refuting the theory of formal discipline.
Furthermore, if regulation is defined in a narrow sense as specific economic policies aimed at the control of prices or market entry and access, the decrease in regulation of several industries in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s seemingly refutes the theory.
The other is to try to refute the theory itself.
Science was science because it subjected its theories to rigorous tests which offered a high probability of failing and thus refuting the theory.
Moreover, it was Christian medieval philosophers, near the end of the thirteenth century, who were ultimately responsible for decisively refuting the theory.
