contradict

Example Sentences

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Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and many others made incredible films that directly contradicted the edicts of studio bosses at the behest of the government.

From Salon

They would contradict the Navy’s existing strategic and tactical doctrines, which call for distributed firepower, not the concentration envisioned in a new battleship fleet.

From Los Angeles Times

This meant the council had "no evidence to contradict the statutory declaration and evidence provided by the applicant", Ms Bingham said.

From BBC

Ortega screened video footage to the jury that proved his client’s version of what happened and easily caught federal agents contradicting each other and their own field reports.

From Los Angeles Times

He added that he has hundreds of militiamen under his command, contradicting observers who put the total number of fighters across the five groups at around 200.

From Los Angeles Times