He's all hot air, but unless you begin some rebutting, people are going to start believing this drivel."

It also attacked scientific studies, although more by casting doubt on them rather than by rebutting them directly.

Their lawyer, who complained that he wasn't getting paid enough to handle a sevenweek trial, proved inefective at rebutting these loose charges.

The lawyers said they considered it proper for them to refer to the officer's fiancee in the context of rebutting Mr. Louima's accusation.

Adam Savage, left, and Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters, which spent an episode last year rebutting Moon hoax theories.

A.D.M. said in court today that it intended to offer an affidavit rebutting the damages study but would not present additional testimony by company executives on the fairness of the settlement.

In rebutting the allegations contained in the articles of impeachment, this brief refers to the facts as well as to laws, legal principles, court decisions, procedural safeguards and the Constitution itself.

Rebutting Roland Barthes's famous essay "The Death of the Author," it proposes a countertheory called postmortemism, a hilarious and gruesome argument that authors are never really dead and buried.

The Inspector denounced the thesis, and in face of the protest of the Dominicans, entrusted Espejo with replying to the Dominican thesis and rebutting their ideas (Astuto, 138).

But Mr. Simon's campaign now faces another, perhaps more formidable challenge: rebutting the charge that the candidate is too liberal, too closely associated with the party's traditional programs and priorities, to prevail in a general election.

Greenberg motioned to the bailiff; the two started shoving attorneys' tables together to make one big one before O'Farrell could make clear that he had quoted the old saw for the purpose of rebutting it.

The Scarettas contend that they are hampered in rebutting the charges because the Government allowed the destruction of thousands of documents vital to their defense after their business was closed down by Federal agents in February 1993.

"This is about a woman, a little girl from Arkansas, who is taking on her harasser," Susan Carpenter-McMillan, Ms. Jones's spokeswoman, said in rebutting Mr. Carville on "Meet the Press."

But he did make a point of rebutting the concerns of victims' relatives that life in prison is not adequate punishment, and he said he had adopted the view of his blue-ribbon commission: "Fix it or get rid of it."

Taking the rare step of angrily rebutting the charges directly from the White House, the Republicans are trying to turn the issue back on Mr. Kerry and question the character of a man who they say is running a vicious campaign.

Some said he felt pressure from Ms. Rice to make his reports on Iraq more specific, leading to Mr. Blix's rebutting of several American arguments when he made his report the following Friday, Feb. 14, at the Security Council.

Mr. Butz said one trooper, Greg Vandenberg, identified himself as an F.B.I. agent in the course of rebutting a claim in Mr. Butz's presentation after the screening about search and surveillance procedures under the antiterrorism law.

Instead, his job is to hang around campaign headquarters seven days a week and make sure everything - from ordering office supplies to rebutting criticism from Mrs. Whitman's Democratic challenger, State Senator James E. McGreevey - goes off without a hitch.

It is unclear if he believes it possible to be found innocent, but he spent much time rebutting specific accusations and snipping the connections that prosecutors made in their opening statements between him and the atrocities across the Serbian border in Bosnia and Croatia.

While Dargis felt that the purpose of FahrenHYPE 9/11 was the detailed rebutting of the arguments put forward by Moore's film, she felt that the purpose of Celsius 41.11 was to "make you afraid - very, very afraid".

Microsoft's legal briefs rebutting the government's breakup proposal, filed with the court on Wednesday, include numerous references to the AT&T case, and Joel I. Klein, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, devoted considerable attention to the subject in a speech on Tuesday.

"Just go in and rebut every single one of them."

The very next day his legal team was rebutting it.

Or, if they do, it is too late to rebut them.

It is an important question whether this evidence could be rebutted.

The prosecution will then rebut the defense's points, and rest.

And she rebutted both of them in fairly short order.

Each side was given one hour in which to detail the issues and rebut them.

Little can be said until the Speaker has a full chance to rebut them.

His role is to rebut the arguments given by the other side.

"What a nightmare where everybody gets in line to rebut each other."

The new report is an attempt to rebut such criticism.

That was rebutted in the report by at least four other officials, including the agency's former president and chairman.

I'll just note a few points, but there's much more to rebut in this article from my point of view.

Rebut, for similar reasons, is best left to the lawyers.

Don't have the time either to rebut your other points.

And I'll be curious to see if they have anybody on to rebut him.

The Government appeared at great pains to rebut the report of the student's death.

"I am more concerned with you having lost your soul," the general rebutted.

This is a difficult argument for the presidents to rebut.

The judge rebutted those who accused him of social engineering.

He has never rebutted what I said or wrote.

In the process, she seemed to rebut the conclusions of her agency's own scientists.

Who can rebut such emotion with the dry claims of reason?

I am simply rebutting the claim that it is outside the domain of science.

Stone rebutted these claims in a letter to the magazine.