Reaching agreement is hard for people more used to spending their time refuting each others' hypotheses.
Computer forensic experts said that assuming the laptop was not turned on by investigators who made the initial arrests, defense lawyers would have a hard time refuting any information found in the files.
Unfortunately for the long-suffering residents of Beijing, officials will have a harder time refuting this week's assertion, by the cancer-research arm of the World Health Organisation, that air pollution causes lung cancer.(Photo credit: AFP/Goh Chai Hin).
This argument, which was also raised by several Republican intervenors in the case who protested that their counties were not being recounted, was considered so outlandish by the Gore team that it spent almost no time refuting it during the trial.
One of those is axing the headphone jack, a decision that has very potent arguments against it that reasonable, logical people would have a hard time refuting.
HSUS California senior state director Jennifer Fearing spoke up for the interests of the cows and made points that the dairy industry representatives had an impossible time refuting.
Journalists and scholars will spend much of their time refuting the scores of false claims that Trump and his surrogates have already made and will continue to make.
But defenders of the agency will have a hard time refuting its central conclusions, which are based on analysis of millions of pages of internal cables, emails and other communications, along with interviews conducted by the CIA's inspector general.
I'm not going to spend a long time refuting the arguments that Cowan and Kessler laid out in the WSJ, as tempting as that is, because that is not my main point here and others are doing it well, but in each area I want to say a brief word.
If you don't know much about the topic, try and at least come up with some vague, ambiguous information so that your opponents will have a hard time refuting your contentions.
