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They did so willingly, knowingly, which is a posture of hostility, or they could not stop them, which is a sign there was no central government in Afghanistan and the right to pursue a criminal group could not be gainsayed.

A Coast Guard that guards everyone else’s coast « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

"Is it because I is white?" is a theme from quite a few, which Iain gainsayed quickly, but which other Tory visitors and linked bloggers seem to perpetuate as the very way of thinking which Dale is I am sure correctly denying in himself.

Archive 2007-01-14 2007

And there have been bishops in the colony who would not have gainsayed her!

Tales of all countries 2004

That the road-agent was a gentleman in disguise, was not to be gainsayed; all felt that, despite his outlawed calling, he was deserving of a place among them, in his better moods.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

They promised with one accord, and none gainsayed him through pride, the which stood them in good stead when the king came to stand before

The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

In which two things, whosoever they were that after him bestowed their labour, he gained the advantage, of prejudice against them if they gainsayed, and of glory above them if they consented.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

Perhaps he often interfered because nobody else could interfere so beneficially -- this we are very willing to allow, but, to take the case now before us, it surely cannot be gainsayed that in his mediation, if Mr. Forster will accept the term, between the king and the college, he really did wish that, with as little unpleasantness as might be, the college should submit to the king.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

He was mild to the good men who loved God, and over all measure severe to the men who gainsayed his will ....

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

When before our own households and with those who know us best, and by whose side we toil, in shop, or store, or office, or with those whom we employ, we keep ourselves unspotted from the world, we have an unanswerable argument for Christ and a testimony as regards the value of following Him which cannot be gainsayed.

The Personal Touch J. Wilbur Chapman

So organised, America's voice in all future contentions would have been too strong, and just, and decisive to be gainsayed.

Angels & Ministers Laurence Housman 1912