After the commercial failure of The Prince and the Showgirl, critics cruelly suggested that Monroe was washed up, something she disproved quite fantastically with her role in Billy Wilder's 1959 classic.
One of us once dealt with a boy about Elian's age who was separated from his mother for 10 days while she disproved abuse allegations fabricated by a malicious neighbor.
In doing so, she disproved the official version that he had died of natural causes and established her credentials as an opponent of apartheid.
Dr Laura, who counts mixed-race marriages as one of the many things she generally disproves of, told the woman she was being "hypersensitive," and added that she shouldn't automatically take offence at racial taunts, even if they contained the word "nigger".
She entirely disproves the theory that aggression is the root of all stand-up and shows that women can be funny without resorting to the blokey hectoring of a young Jo Brand or Jenny Eclair.
Friedan had begun her research into "the problem that has no name" – a catchy homage to "the love that dare not speak its name" of Oscar Wilde's fin-de-siècle disgrace – as part of her work for a questionnaire of her former college classmates on their 15th reunion in 1957, thinking that she would "disprove the current notion that education had fitted us ill for our role as women".
Former Williams test driver Susie Wolff says F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is not against female drivers but feels she has disproved his view that women are not strong enough for the sport.
Hence, in public a black person is burdened with a negative presumption that he or she must disprove before being able to establish mutually trusting relationships with others.
While studying at Princeton, Obama said she was the "funny, kind of silly" person Americans have gotten to know during her husband's presidency, but also that she wanted to disprove naysayers who thought she was aiming too high. .
She did not set out, she says, to disprove that abortion is harmful.
And it's wonderful to be in something that disproves that," she said.
