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Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."

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Healthy, vigorous and solvent, they confute the view that old age, as William Butler Yeats put it, is nothing but a tattered coat upon a stick.

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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.

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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.

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It was to confute this school that St. Bernard had taught in his sermons on the Canticles that union with God is not by confusion of natures, but conformity of will.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013

Those who expressed skepticism when the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. raised the dividend rate on its common stock to $9 were confuted by the Company's earnings for 1923.

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No. The story of stones being thrown at him is destitute of all proof but the guard's own assertion, and is confuted by a hundred eye witnesses.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds

The opponents of Government ownership and management have been ruthlessly confuted.

From The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility by Bert Benedict

And I am the more confident to assert it, that what I say cannot be condemned, till first what our reformers have proven be confuted.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.

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The only shadow of an argument that has been advanced for a different and earlier date is so thin that it is difficult to state without confuting it.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin

The saint wrote him an answer full of apostolic spirit; in which, besides solidly confuting the Eutychian error, he added, that he was ready to lay down his life for the faith of the church.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

Cowden Clarke confirms Hunt in stating that Keats’s hair was brown, and he assigns the same colour, or dark hazel, to his eyes: confuting the “auburn” and “blue” of which Mrs. Procter had spoken.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

Speaking, reasoning, acting, like the rest of the world, on the implied truthfulness of the faculties whose falsity he affirms, he will save you the trouble of confuting him, by confuting himself.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers