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La situation sur l'île démentit les affirmations hypocrites selon lesquelles la population peut participer à la politique sur la base de principes démocratiques.
The situation on the island conclusively refuted the hypocritical claims that the population could participate in politics on the basis of democratic principles.
Rien ne le démentit non plus.
There's also nothing to suggest he hasn't.
Mais chaque acte majeur du gouvernement à Washington durant les années 1952-1956 démentit ces professions de foi.
But every major act of the government in Washington in the years 1952-1956 belied these professions.
Pourtant cela ne démentit point l'hypothèse de l'éther (et les relativistes proposent agir comme dans l'anecdote consacrée à un ivrogne près d'un réverbère : ne pas chercher là où on peut trouver, mais là où il est plus facile de chercher).
However, this fact in no way disproves the ether hypothesis (but relativists, like a drunkard under a street lamp, call to seek not there where it can be really found, but simply there where it were easily to look).
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