Sentence examples for to controvert from inspiring English sources

The railroad introduced evidence tending to controvert this.

'There hasn't been any evidence that has been produced to controvert it.

This kind of bouncing youth, if it ever ran out of things or people to controvert, would disintegrate into invisibility.

It would be hard to controvert the view that Shakespeare believed life is a kind of theatre and theatre a mirror of life.

Though there's some truth to that, this is an image that its pioneers, like the people at Pixar and Peter Jackson's Weta Digital, have tried to controvert.

'By forbidding a soldier ever to controvert the presumption of nonresidence,' id., at 96, 85 S.Ct., at 780, the State, we said, unjustifiably effected a substantial deprivation.

I therefore at once summarily state certain dominant propositions which are to my mind not subject to be controverted, because, whatever may be the differences of opinion as to some of them, considered originally, they are all so conclusively established by the previous decisions of this court as to be now beyond dispute.

It will be incumbent upon the applicant to present controverting evidence and, until such evidence is presented and a determination favorable to the applicant is made by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the finding of the Armed Forces will control and hospital care or medical services will not be authorized.

Observe, Protarchus, the nature of the position which you are now going to take from Philebus, and what the other position is which I maintain, and which, if you do not approve of it, is to be controverted by you.

In this case we must assume that there was such report and certificate, and indeed we do not understand this to be controverted, as it could not well be in view of the senate proceedings as disclosed by its journal and otherwise.

That the bearer of this letter must be considered as acquainted with its contents is not to be controverted.