(n.) An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
(n.) Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(2) The pattern of results is consistent with a role for the dorsal bundle in attentional processes but appears to contradict the predictions required if the dorsal bundle were to have a role in frustrative nonreward.
(3) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
(4) The notion of life-threatening dermatoses may seem to be a contradiction in terms, but in fact there are a number of serious dermatologic conditions that require prompt attention to prevent fatal consequences.
(5) This is contradicted, however, by maintained blood pressure and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, increased cardiac output, and reduced peripheral resistance.
(6) The observation of myelinated serotonin-containing axons in the white matter of the monkey dorsolateral funiculus contradicts the view that the descending serotoninergic projection consists entirely of unmyelinated fibers, particularly since the conduction velocity of the fine fibers would be too slow to account for the earliest latency of descending inhibition following stimulation in the brainstem.
(7) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(8) We suggest that the contradictions can be resolved if one assumes that C1 activation can be both an intra- and intermolecular process; which process dominates is determined by the state of C1 and by experimental conditions.
(9) He then went on to contradict the claims made by Attenborough in his own Radio Times article by stating that the polar bear population is, in fact, rising, Antarctic sea ice is expanding, and there was "no global warming at all" in the last quarter of the 20th century.
(10) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(11) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
(12) With respect to the issue of complexity in perception, the findings clearly contradicted the notion that dieters simply dichotomize food into "good" and "bad" categories.
(13) Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion on Saturday night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached.
(14) However, some facts observed contradict the validity of this hypothesis for coronary artery SMC in contrast to taenia caeci: 1) elevation of external Ca2+ concentration did not affect the time course of ICa inactivation; 2) inactivation of In.s., i.e.
(15) Merkel’s interior and finance ministers, both in the same party, regularly contradict her.
(16) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
(17) They want to destroy them all because they know there are lots of discrepancies and contradictions in them."
(18) The unexpected announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney general, contradicts Utah’s refusal to recognise some 1,300 same-sex marriages that were licensed during a brief window in December when a federal judge ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional .
(19) According to the results in hand there exists a contradiction to the opinions hitherto existing about a distinct age dependence in the bone structure and distinct sex differences in the findings of the structures of the Ist order.
(20) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
Rebuttal
Definition:
(n.) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
(2) "The law states specifically that this provision does not give the suspect the right to have copies of case files," the prosecutors said in their rebuttal.
(3) The cleanliness of Kigali is a pleasing rebuttal to Forbes’ list, which declared in 2007 that the cleanest cities in the world were “largely located in countries noted for their democracy and their industrialisation” and that there are “no top-25 clean cities in South or Central America, Africa and Australia”.
(4) Fiorina’s own rebuttal to the Iran deal may have been lacked any detail but it packed a rhetorical punch.
(5) The format only allows for one-minute responses and a 30-second rebuttal if we are attacked by name, so probably a lot of us will be sitting there hoping we get attacked by name so we can get a little more time,” said Huckabee in an interview on CBS.
(6) If, as looks likely, Carswell wins a byelection on 9 October , Farage will have a neat rebuttal to Cameron’s warning that voting Ukip lets Labour in by the back door.
(7) I did so in part after soliciting and receiving this response to the center’s mock “nutrition label” for the salmon from Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty, on 27 June: Rebuttal of Center for Food Safety AquAdvantage (AAS) Salmon composition label: In the United States, the average height of a student entering the third grade is 45 inches.
(8) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
(9) The strategy backfired within hours because, with just a few sentences, Miliband gave a truly prime ministerial rebuttal: “Michael Fallon’s a decent man but today I think he has demeaned himself and he’s demeaned his office.
(10) This was not our intention – a fix for this is already under way,” wrote Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of policy for Europe in a rebuttal.
(11) He said: "The tone and language of the report is quite shocking, but it was equally a very firm rebuttal from Standard Chartered to say it was acting lawfully and measuring what they think was outside the rules."
(12) But whether the attacks are fair when it comes to Trump or not, Clinton was able to stick them without a strong rebuttal from her opponent.
(13) Yet I have never seen a sustained rebuttal of his argument, because it’s essentially true.
(14) It's a brisk rebuttal of a recent research paper which argued that the fiscal consolidation being imposed on European countries was largely the fault of the "fear and panic that erupted in the financial markets".
(15) The legal concept of "rebuttable presumption" should be used to reconceive the traditional requirement of a uniform standard of care.
(16) That prompted an immediate response from Anderson on Twitter and the mayor issued a more comprehensive rebuttal of Everton’s accusations on Tuesday.
(17) Tory missteps and gaffes go ignored and unpunished, where, in the Alastair Campbell era of rapid rebuttal, they would have been seized on ruthlessly.
(18) She scathingly noted that the state’s rebuttal to Warner’s petition had depended largely on a scientific expert who claimed that midazolam was effective in executions but had cited no studies, but instead appeared to have drawn his information from the website drugs.com .
(19) @StateDept with another rebuttal of #Russian authorities claims.
(20) In his rebuttal, he said that they were the "usual tired obfuscation and generalisation".