Recently he refuted charges that he had never actually been to Europe.
First, the organizers hoped to refute charges that the desire to ban prostitution implies hostility toward prostitutes.
[C6.] During closing arguments, L. Dennis Kozlowski's lawyer sought to refute charges that his client looted Tyco International of hundreds of millions of dollars.
He has also had to work hard though not hard enough, in Spanish eyes to refute charges that Gibraltar has become a centre for tobacco- and drug-smuggling and for money-laundering.
In a letter to local human rights groups that had pressed the case, the military advocate general's office said the military police inquiry had refuted charges that Israeli forces had deliberately attacked civilians, or had acted hastily or recklessly.
Bill Clinton, a wonk's wonk, had other interests, but when it came time to refute charges of infidelity involving Gennifer Flowers, he chose the time slot on "60 Minutes" just after the Super Bowl.
The most compelling witness in "Death by Fire" is one who speaks in Mr. Willingham's defense: his stepmother, Eugenia, who appears calm but still a bit shellshocked as she refutes charges that he beat his wife and would have wanted to harm his children.
Though he says little about the issue in his book, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," (Penguin Press, $35) Mr. Greenspan sought to staunchly refute charges that he contributed to the housing bubble by cutting interest rates from 2001 until 2004 and by making little effort to regulate the explosion of risky new mortgages.
The distinction is real but insufficient to refute charges of pantheism.
Danone has in the past refuted charges that it sells products under the Tiger brand abroad.
The Sun refuted charges it was kowtowing to the Stampede and justified its refusal by claiming "we are Calgarians and allowing a group of outsiders to come in and insult a proud Calgary tradition seemed just plain wrong".
