Despite strenuous denials from Ron Dennis stories continued to circulate during the 2004/2005 off-season that Newey's departure was imminent.

Rumors that the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States had missed a debt payment and was near insolvency swept through financial markets yesterday despite strenuous denials by the company.

He shut his eyes, he shook his head in strenuous denial of these memories.

Mr. Stephens said the arrest strengthened the credibility of witnesses whose previous accusations about the Mayor's drug use have brought strenuous denials from Mr. Barry.

Despite strenuous denials from the Prime Minister's office, many Indians also persist in believing that she plays a powerful role behind the scenes.

The Congress has already come close to doing so because of mounting evidence that Pakistan is proceeding with a nuclear weapons effort in spite of its strenuous denials.

Last year, he was obliged to issue strenuous public denials that he had been involved in a still-murky effort to smuggle plutonium into Germany from Russia in 1994.

The most recent case they documented in visiting only 40 of Slovakia's 600 Gypsy communities was last fall, and the investigators suggest that despite strenuous denials from doctors, the practice continues.

Due to the strenuous denial, I did wonder if Betfair were indulging in the betting equivalent of prop and flow trading, particularly given their cash balances.

Suggestions that I.B.M. was resigned to playing a secondary role to Windows have brought a strenuous denial from Armonk, N.Y., where I.B.M. has its headquarters.