But Mark Russell from the British Marine Aggregate Producers' Association said research disproved these claims.
My working hypothesis can't be disproved or proved for the next couple of years.
Nationwide, 85 people awaiting execution have been freed after new evidence disproved their guilt.
The belief that big euro-zone countries could be protected from attack has been disproved.
On Monday, Tacopina said at least two points of his client's story could be disproved.
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If these holiday myths can be dispelled, he says, then more serious health advice might be disproved as well.
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But over the years, these critics have been disproved time and time again.
Amla quickly disproved the theory that he might be susceptible to the new ball, however, with another disciplined performance.
And as Galileo would have pointed out, a theory that cannot be meaningfully tested or disproved is not much use.
Before last year, this was unproven (but by no means disproved) and has remained so, even now that Mallory has been found.
Dutch researchers definitively disproved this in 2008 when they administered massive doses of good bacteria to the intestines of severe pancreatitis sufferers.
These are merely seasonal thoughts that may be horribly disproved by a clutch of terrible new scandals and surprises in the New Year.
The idea that the Ulster Unionists would ultimately find it impossible to stand up to a charismatic prime minister has also been disproved.
The notion that bashing Europe is popular should have been disproved by the large (and often fatal) swings against some of the most prominent Eurosceptics.
His music alone disproved the casual dictum that jazz is dead.
These are the arguments that led Lyons to opt for a full-sized computor, and experience during four years of often difficult experiment has not disproved them.
Part of the problem with bad assumptions is that we forget we make them, so we continue down the wrong path long after our assumptions have been disproved.
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The repeatedly disproved theory in operation here is that cheapening your currency will improve your trade balance and that an improved trade balance makes your economy stronger and wealthier.
History says the Game 5 winner when a series is tied at 2-2 has a colossal upper hand, though that's an axiom that the Heat both proved and disproved last season.
Because climate change or global warming can neither be proved or disproved using the scientific method because we are living and taking measurements within the only experiment there is or ever can be.
It would be ironic if the hereditary peers finally disproved Mr Blair's allegation that they are the Conservative Party's poodle, by voting for their own abolition in defiance of their own party leader.
After a U.N. inspection team had verified this attack and brought back horrific videotapes of the injured Iranians, arms control specialists were miffed that their benign assumptions had been so crudely disproved by Saddam.
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It's been disproved time and time again.
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That those statistics can be so easily and well disproved, as Snowdon does, tells me that the campaign is driven rather more by puritanism, that fear that someone, somewhere, might be enjoying themselves, than by public health concerns.
Those charges were subsequently disproved.
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Just as these beliefs rest on faith, and, supernaturalism or transcendentalism--ideas that supposedly thrive on forces beyond human understanding, but could be rationally explained someday-- like in western religion and past concepts that later was explained or disproved by science, outsiders should not completely dismiss these institutional, African concepts as fallacious or fictitious representations or misrepresentations.
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