It was not until recently that this was disproved, and the disproving of it was a painful episode in our history."

Finally, VandeWalle defines avoid performance as the "desire to avoid the disproving of one's competence and to avoid negative judgments about it" (p. 1000 ).

I recall your once saying to me that an experimental failure or the disproving of a theory was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be.

If you have a problem with the science then simply disprove the data.

It took him a single day to disprove the second.

The case was disproved and it had all died down.

Her story was now a good one, that he could not disprove.

About all I'd have to do is show up to disprove it.

To be clear, no single study would disprove all forms of free will.

He has offered to take a blood test to disprove it.

That is the very key to its power - it can be disproved!

I have disproved that theory more than 100 times in the last month.

"This is going to be an opportunity to disprove that."

So, off we went, only to have my theory disproved.

"But it would be something no one could ever prove or disprove."

Yet there is nothing to support or to disprove the identification.

But this has now been disproved and only one method was used.

The other players must then disprove the suggestion, if they can.

It took less than a minute to disprove that theory as well.

There was no way I might prove or disprove that.

The theory about the land had been disproved along with a lot of other early ideas.

Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.

He had never seen the photograph that disproved their guilt.

Equally important was the fact that no one could disprove it.

This was a matter which might be proved or disproved in just a few minutes.

But maybe he could prove or disprove that theory tonight.

As for the other thing, that could be harder to disprove, but maybe we'll get to it.

One theory of his was to be proved or disproved.