You should have refused his request flatly.

He flatly refused to let me in.

RB Well, I won't contradict that.

Nor, however, does one contradict the other.

However, one does not contradict the other.

Mr. Requeijo Gual (Cuba) said that the report seemed to contradict itself.

Then what can, after this, contradict thee, as to the judgment (to come)?

Then what can, after this, contradict thee, as to the judgment (to come)?

What is wonderful is, at many times, the stories will contradict with each other.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

Applying the law retroactively beyond a certain time limit, however, would contradict the general principles of law.

That would contradict the principle of partnership set forth in the paper Partnership for Progress and Prosperity .

Such an approach does not contradict multilateral trading system rules, which provide ample scope for industrial policy.

In addition, the three sets of testimony contradict each other, and thus they lack the necessary credibility to be relied upon.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

According to the authors, the State party's observations contradict Spanish domestic legislation and reflect a lack of good faith by the State party.

Terrorist attacks on innocent people fundamentally contradict the value systems of modern countries, in particular human rights, as formulated and stated in international conventions and declarations.

And it was necessary in some way for these to contradict each other, and as a consequence you have to make friends wherever you can get them.

In the present case, it is the author who has provided most of the information, although her statements fail to underpin her own allegations, and even contradict them.

The author contends that the Covenant would not contradict, disagree with or be more discriminatory with regard to children than the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Mr. Burman (United States of America) said that he would be able to support Japan's proposal only if the clarification did not contradict the conclusions of the Working Group.

The complainant adds that all these observations are corroborated by NGOs and contradict the presumption put forward by the Government of France that torture does not exist in Spain.

Because the Constitution is the supreme law of the State, other inferior laws should not and cannot contradict it without running the risk of being declared null and void.

Considering that the establishment of an Islamic Common Market or any other form of economic integration shall not contradict with the existing or possible international obligations of the Member States

Find the truth for yourself, and when you find the truth for yourself, there will be a truth in it, but it may contradict the plot, but don't worry about it.

People will believe many things if they have the impression that the rich and famous believe them, too. But their belief can suddenly be disrupted if plainly visible events contradict it.

After all, the work of the Community does not contradict but further reinforces the MDGs and, in a larger sense, the time honoured objectives incorporated in the Charter of the United Nations.

They totally contradict United Nations resolutions such as Security Council resolution 478 (1980), which declared all such legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel in Jerusalem to be null and void.

President Barack Obama s recent speech on the Middle East is a further display of America s declining influence in the region. The speech drew the most attention for calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, but the effect was undercut when Israel flatly rejected the US position.

The State party indicates that the authors' principal complaint relates to the supposed inability of the defence to question its experts during the oral proceedings, the remainder of the complaints being subsidiary, and adds that the authors' assertions are flatly contradicted by the record of the oral proceedings.

Rejects any recommendation of the Report which may, in one way or another, violate the principles and purposes of the Charter or contradict the Member States sovereignty, political independence and the principle of non interference

For a theory to be considered scientific, it must yield specific predictions of future observations or experimental results. If those observations or results contradict the predictions, the theory is discarded, or at least must be modified.

In fact, liberal values sometimes contradict each other. Islam, for example, has historically permitted certain forms of polygamy, but no liberal society is obliged to extend religious freedom in ways that undermine its commitment to gender equality.

It may be assumed that since additional data is presented by a coastal State in support of the particulars of the limits of the continental shelf submitted by it to the Commission, it should not contradict them.

Now, however, international acceptance of Iran as a nuclear threshold state, together with the threat emanating from imploding Arab neighbors, flatly contradicts Netanyahu s assumptions about the conditions that must be fulfilled for Israel to offer painful concessions to the Palestinians. Someone clearly looks likely to fall into a strategic trap, but who?

Back in 1997 1998, during the Asian crisis, the G 7 flatly rejected Japan s proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund. Now the IMF has even accepted a minority lender role, with the bulk of assistance coming from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a new institution often viewed as an embryonic European Monetary Fund.

Moreover, it is significant that the Court agreed, at the request of the parties, to refer the case on appeal to its Grand Chamber. According to Costa, rejecting the ruling in February 2006 would contradict previous case law.

According to the State party, these recent amendments contradict the authors' assertion that the verdict in the Sjolie case would serve as a precedent, and that it will be more difficult to prosecute dissemination of ideas of racist discrimination and hatred.

Yet I find myself in sharp disagreement with the Bush administration. It is not only that there is a large gap between official words and deeds I find that the words sometimes directly contradict the deeds in a kind of Orwellian doublespeak.

That suggestion was opposed by some participants based on the argument that the imposition of formal criteria for membership in the Council linked to the issuing of standing invitations or implementing recommendations would contradict the sovereign equality of States enshrined in the Charter.

Throughout the trial, Bo flatly denied most of the corruption charges, often professed ignorance of the facts, and claimed to be unable to recall any details of the matters in question. He even retracted his confession to the CCP s anti graft agency, blaming mental stress for his admission that he accepted bribes from a man he called soulless in court.

These two objectives, though, do not necessarily contradict each other. The goal of equity needs to be firmly embedded within the policy regimes of the State in order to increase the chance that economic growth will be accompanied by equitable distribution of its benefits.