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Instead, friends say, he was driven to make his own mark, to give the lie to anyone who dared say that all his advantages were inherited.
This gives the lie to early Pentagon efforts to paint the prison abuses as the work of a handful of low-level MPs, acting out their frustrations.
"They give the lie to the talking down of the job market and the labor market Mr . Beazley is engaged in, " he said.
"These Iranian assertions give the lie to their public contention that their nuclear program is entirely civil and peaceful in purpose, " Bolton said in an interview.
And that certainly gives the lie to Petri's purported ( my emphasis ) " "'absolutely "'no interest " regarding my activities.

This tactic of amiability can work for both females and males, giving the lie to the common assumption about where in nature's lineup the nice ones finish.
While the markets so far are giving the lie to the theory that nothing goes up forever, a rocky road on Wall Street could be just around the bend.
The general orderliness of its classrooms and the earnestness of so many students give the lie to often-heard lamentations that the public-school system is beyond salvation.
Payne says that one great lesson of the Third Symphony is " that it gives the lie to the received opinion that the old boy was dried up creatively.
Such fervor, she maintained, gives the lie to the notion that the rest of the country can never truly approach the emotions gripping ground zero a year after.

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