How do your clippings justify or refute the position that the United States is an empire?
When, in 1998, Dr. Seitz issued a statement and circulated a petition attacking the scientific conclusions underlying international efforts to control emissions of industrial-waste gases, the National Academy of Sciences took the extraordinary step of refuting the position of one its former presidents.
Here, we can again refute the position that establishment of baby hatches is bad because of abuse.
Emulating those conservative institutions, he said, a message-oriented war room will send out a daily briefing to refute the positions and arguments of the right.
For example, the sophisma 'Album fuit disputaturum' ('The white [thing] was about to dispute') in thirteenth-century Parisian literature elicited discussions of the problems connected with the theory of reference in tensed contexts, and also provided an opportunity to refute the positions others held on this very controversial subject.
A study published on Friday refutes the U.S. Air Force and Department of Veteran Affairs' position that any dioxin or other components of Agent Orange contaminating its fleet of C-123 cargo planes would have been "dried residues" and therefore unlikely to pose any meaningful exposure risks.
That is to say, More wished to refute the theological position that whatever God decrees to be good is good, in favour of the alternative theological position, that God wills what is good (and he does so necessarily because He himself conforms to an absolute standard of goodness).
Gregory's stand against Becchus and against the theology of the Roman Catholic church led him to write Tomos pisteos ("Tome on Faith"), which refuted the Latin position that the Holy Spirit proceeded from God the Son as well as God the Father.
If this position can be established, Socrates is in a position to refute the popular view that the soul, being composed of ethereal stuff, is more liable to dispersion and destruction than the body.
Prepare a position paper that supports or refutes the statement, "Ideas are property, and can be owned like a house or car".
