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He had no hope of controverting it in the dark at six degrees above zero.

Although such arguments may be controverted, they certainly deserve a serious examination.

I frequently endeavoured to controvert this idea, but without success.

He will not controvert the charge by calling a single witness".

I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.

These articles are of great interest, though some of the views in them have been controverted.

He also wrote up and published his findings in Harper's magazine, where they were not controverted by any authority.

I did not attempt to controvert this singular and astounding assertion.

And now consider well; for the question to which I invite your attention is difficult and controverted.

"I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will scarcely controvert."

Summers dilated, amplified and controverted his way through the next several hours.

And that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.

Moreover, in one controverted biblical case after another, early is not even necessarily early.

The latter, he argued, would "ultimately be controverted by its own falsehood."

It does not follow that opinions must be merely parroted because they are never heard controverted.

An artist must challenge, must controvert the established order.

It is impossible to produce any subsequent discoveries which controvert their main tenets.

He recognizes, however, that hypotheses about species selection are highly controverted in the scientific literature.

The claim is controverted by a reliable source.

The significance of this clause, however, is extremely ambiguous, and the issues it raised would be seriously controverted in future.

The evidence is complete, cannot be controverted.

But the Jews' basic right to be where they are can't be controverted."

The evidence of the senses appeared directly to controvert the supposition that this earth is anything but stationary.

His papers in the New Church Advocate (1846) were much controverted.

Many unverified cases ("claims" or "traditions") have been controverted by reliable sources.