1.   And Israel contradicted the assertions.

2.   A named person could attract a response contradicting an assertion, which may be why some people insist on anonymity.

3.   But both lawyers, McAllister and Charles D. Adler, said they saw Salim being escorted without handcuffs, and prosecutors did not contradict that assertion in court.

4.   But Bowen and Bok say their data contradict that assertion.

5.   Committee Republicans believe these assertions are contradicted by this steady drip of new facts and new-found records.

6.   He maintained, though, that many of the complaints were exaggerated, an assertion contradicted in several interviews with local residents.

7.   His assertion was contradicted by a tape recording in which he repeatedly used the slur.

8.   His own destiny seemed to contradict that assertion, offering, perhaps, a portent of things to come.

9.   In an accompanying interview, however, Singleton contradicts these assertions.

10.   Nothing in the report, however, contradicts previous assertions by tobacco companies that they halted paid product placement more than a decade ago.