But economists and psychologists have long sought to disprove this theory with experiments.
Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, has sought to disprove that, espousing massive monetary easing to get prices rising.
A liquor brand, seeking to disprove the rule that most advertising is evanescent, is casting its campaign in bronze.
The jury were presented with a wealth of evidence, not seeking to disprove the charge, but to justify it.
In a usual legal process, the lawyer would seek to disprove a charge, and would do so by exercising his primary instinct as a lawyer: examining the evidence.
It has sometimes been suggested by those who seek to disprove human impact on the climate that volcanoes release more CO2 than human activity.
One internal Pentagon memorandum went so far as to suggest that terrorism experts in the government and outside it had deliberately "downplayed or sought to disprove" the link between Al Qaeda and Iraq.
EVER since the election of Barack Obama as American president, Europeans have been frantically seeking to disprove the theory that a comparable minority success story is unthinkable in the old world.
Confirmation of such a finding would upset the widely held theory that humans first entered the Americas 12,000 years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia, a belief that Dr. MacNeish had long sought to disprove.
But he will also seek to disprove Thompson's claim that he was "fully briefed, orally and in writing" about the two severance packages shortly after joining the BBC in May 2011.
So far, however, intelligent design has maintained a purely negative agenda, seeking to disprove science's ability to answer questions instead of offering new approaches within the naturalist framework.
