What's the difference between incontestable and irrefutable?

Incontestable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After presenting some incontestable facts of CSF-physiology the actual and quite controversial opinions on ventricular and extraventricular sources of CSF as well as the mechanism of CSF-absorption are discussed.
  • (2) Because the longer the league dawdles in its headquarters' backyard, the closer Orlando is to its stadium deal, making its franchise allocation incontestable.
  • (3) We have entered into rigorous and objective work that should be incontestable and which will have to take account of commitments for the past.
  • (4) This was incontestably a nonscarring rolling-inwards of the upper lid.
  • (5) Sonographic diagnosis was demonstrated by incontestably safe documentation.
  • (6) Whilst a strong genetic component to the aetiology of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is incontestable, progress in identifying the specific genetic determinants involved in its pathogenesis has been slow.
  • (7) These facts, together with the absence of clinical or humoral side effects incontestably bear out the efficacy of the drug in controlling the number and the intensity of painful attacks of coronary origin.
  • (8) The chatter about the result of the Eastleigh byelection may have its overheated aspects, but at its heart is something incontestable.
  • (9) The IF technique has an incontestable advantage as regards the detection of the simultaneous presence of several infectious agents in the same patient.
  • (10) If a cold nodule is positive with 201 T1, surgery is incontestably indicated, as such a finding correlates with the existence of a thyroid tumor (benign follicular adenoma or carcinoma) in 89.5% of the observed cases.
  • (11) Vitamin E depletion, in combination with different ascorbic acid concentrations, showed that vitamin E deficiency is not an incontestable model system for enhanced sensitivity to lipid peroxidation in all organs.
  • (12) Hereby, pherograms with technically incontestable separations are acquired with a running time of 70 min at 180 V.
  • (13) What is incontestable is that Timpson was a thoroughly unflappable professional, who was not afraid of getting up at 3am to face any challenge.
  • (14) The judge added that he had to decide that "the conduct of US officials acting outside the US was unlawful, in circumstances where there are no clear and incontrovertible standards for doing so and where there is incontestable evidence that such an inquiry would be damaging to the national interest".
  • (15) In 1948, our ancestors created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , which among other things upheld access to asylum as an incontestable human right.
  • (16) That he commissioned a crime of aggression – waging an unprovoked war, described by the Nuremberg tribunal as "the supreme international crime" – looks incontestable.
  • (17) Belt usage on back seats is still unsatisfactory (20%), although here too, the effect on injuries of the belt is incontestable, taking into consideration occupant interaction.
  • (18) Computer processing of carotidograms is an incontestable methodical asset.
  • (19) In the authors' opinion, earlier writings have not proved incontestably the occurence of a genuine osteochondritis dissecans of the scaphoid bone.
  • (20) But, frustrated on every front, he began to look inwards, confining himself to the only arena, Libya itself, where his absolute writ ran incontestably.

Irrefutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) TV thrillers offer the forensic promise that a crime will always be solved, and a random-stop DNA swab can irrefutably convict an unsuspected murderer.
  • (2) "If it is irrefutably proven that the blood of innocent Muslims is spilled by the negligence of mujahideen then a penalty should be implemented in accordance with sharia," the statement said.
  • (3) It has been the experience of major urban EMS systems that field participation by physicians has lent irrefutable credibility to the authority of medical directors.
  • (4) In Professor Barnes’s report we now have irrefutable evidence that cannabis is an effective medicine for very large numbers of people,” Meacher told the Guardian.
  • (5) Sex-reversal of these individuals has been irrefutably demonstrated through genetic, cytogenetic, enzymatic and immunological studies.
  • (6) What last year’s revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (7) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
  • (8) Carcinogen-DNA adduct formation, presumed to constitute tumorigenic initiation, provides irrefutable evidence of exposure and some indication of biologically effective dose to target tissues.
  • (9) What is denied most sharply invariably turns out to be irrefutably true.
  • (10) "What last year's revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (11) Clearly this World Cup has elevated this discussion to a level that can no longer be ignored and the facts are irrefutable.” Orsatti said Fifpro wants an “independently managed sideline concussion protocol”, pointing to the growing body of evidence that supports this and the experiences of other sports, in particular the NFL in the US.
  • (12) He asked the Russian authorities to “either release [Sentsov] or try him only for what you can prove irrefutably”.
  • (13) But there is at least a strong argument to make, if not an irrefutable one, that the Swedish government is able to offer precisely the guarantee that both Assange and Ecuadorean authorities have sought in order to enable him immediately to travel to Sweden to face the sex assault allegations against him.
  • (14) The influence of Sydenham's medicine can be seen in the following areas of Locke's philosophy: his "plain historical method"; the emphasis on observation and sensory experience instead of seeking the essence of things; the rejection of hypotheses and principles; the refusal of research into final causes and inner mechanisms; the ideal of irrefutable evidence and skepticism on the possibilities of certainty in science.
  • (15) New statutes concerning brain death imply that irrefutable technical evidence is readily available to diagnose brain death, that brain death is as valid a sign of death as any former criteria, and that in certain situtations brain death must be used to pronounce death.
  • (16) To argue anything else is to make a mockery of the legal system in general and the concept (and irrefutable value) of prisoner rehabilitation in particular.
  • (17) Because, while I could put forward a decent argument on why Duncan Smith is not a great conceiver, I can put forward an irrefutable one that he is a hopeless implementer.
  • (18) The prosecution submitted that the evidence irrefutably proved the case against the accused but the suspects pleaded not guilty, claiming they had been framed by police.
  • (19) The failure of Trigynon cannot be irrefutable ascribed to minocycline as unintended pregnancy also occurs while using OCs without antibiotics.
  • (20) The evidence that mass loss in Greenland and west Antarctica has been accelerating since the early 1990s is irrefutable.