Disproving the Rahm Emanuel theory of the problem, guns purchased elsewhere can enter New York as easily as they do Chicago.

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And regardless of what prompts an investigation, facts discovered in the process of proving or disproving the original allegation are fair game.

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His disquisition on light, aimed at disproving Newton, was way off-beam.

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Lawsuits involving whether the person who died promised something are never easy for either side, because proving or disproving what the person said is not easy.

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These are uncontestable facts and any logically sound arguement disproving them would cause a revolt in a scientific field with two and a half millennia worth of recorded research.

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Santa Cruz chose to improve the municipal water utility instead, using World Bank loans, as La Paz had done (and so disproving the myth that the Bank lends only to privatised schemes).

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Disproving previous assumptions that older audiences would continue to utilize traditional services, U.S. online growth in 2009 for most categories was driven by older audiences, resulting in a more even usage distribution across age groups, particularly for services like social networking and online news.

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Now, universally acknowledged as an all-time great and freed from the losing environment that he faced for years with the Seattle Mariners Ichiro has begun to focus less on disproving doubters, or caring about what numbers like 3, 000 hits say about his place in baseball history.

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Disproving the charge, Podhoretz writes, required "literally printing out the 2 million words that had appeared on this site in 2008 and sending them in many boxes to the IRS" to show that the Lieberman speech was "essentially a part per million" of Commentary's output.

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