give the lie to in a sentence

Examples

1. This is common and mainstream knowledge ( which, incidentally, gives the lie to the contention that dynastic Egypt was a Semitic civilization ).
2. She evidently still doesn't believe that what she did or what he did was wrong, giving the lie to her pseudo-apologies.
3. Henry Reuss was a good guy, an honorable public official whose career gives the lie to the crackpots who have contempt for all things liberal.
4. Those that profess to be good Mazdayasnians, but whose conduct gives the lie to their profession, are themselves'darvands,'wicked indeed.
5. :" Mercola gives the lie to the notion that holistic practitioners tend to be so absorbed in treating patients that they aren't effective businesspeople.
6. The petition now commands 201 supporters, only 18 short of the number needed to give the lie to those who cynically pronounced campaign reform a lost cause.
7. "For heterosexual students, that model is going to give the lie to the demeaning stereotypes they're likely to come here with ."
8. But recent events in Europe _ the attacks on synagogues, the success of Le Pen _ give the lie to that reply, don't they?
9. "These Iranian assertions give the lie to their contention that their nuclear program is entirely civil and peaceful in purpose, " Bolton was quoted as saying.
10. It appeared to give the lie to a theory being put about by the Soviet KGB that HIV had escaped from a U . S . germ warfare laboratory.