1.   A string of female rulers, from Boudicca to Margaret Thatcher, gives the lie to that idea.

2.   The Bomb gives the lie to the false Enlightenment doctrine of perpetual progress.

3.   The quatrain poems give the lie to that.

4.   They posed for photographers at the star-studded show, giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks.

5.   But the lush swell of her hips and breasts gave the lie to it.

6.   And each time, he has given the lie to the predictions of failure, succeeding at every level.

7.   And it gives the lie to the wine country mantra that wine is food, an integral part of any good meal.

8.   At the same time -- and this is not a complaint -- he gives the lie to the myth of journalistic objectivity.

9.   A reasonable look at the history gives lie to these assertions.

10.   But new research has given the lie to this belief.