| Legitimate children were subject to the commands of their father, with the mother having no legal right to gainsay him. |
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| Everyone who believes it is legit will find some way to gainsay the believers. |
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| Now I dance to my own piper and if I want to sleep in I have no master to gainsay me. |
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| Seeing that there was indeed room, she began to settle in before anyone could gainsay her. |
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| Whatever problems one might have with military tribunals, is it really possible to gainsay the White House response on this one? |
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| No-one can possibly gainsay the need to travel on the railway in safety and it will be difficult to advance an argument against these giants. |
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| These revisionists could not of course ultimately gainsay the fact that France was defeated. |
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| But it is hard to gainsay the fundamental reality that the liberal news media are more firmly in the saddle than ever. |
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| We do not gainsay any of that, your Honour, and, indeed, the complaint against us is not in connection with the certification process, of course. |
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| My warnings over the last six years had been so numerous, so detailed, and were now so terribly vindicated, that no one could gainsay me. |
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| He had a hot temper and a weekly column in which he could publicly tear to shreds anyone who dared gainsay him or meddle with his works. |
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| But if it ends up being closer to the 200th year, I would not be around in any case, and I will not be able to have anyone gainsay me. |
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| Twenty-five years on, who can gainsay their prophetic analysis? |
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| As long as the United States was the economic primus inter pares, those arguments were hard to gainsay. |
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| If he says then that no military or political progress has been made, it will be impossible for even Mr Bush to gainsay him. |
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| I must emphasise that I am saying this not to gainsay the quality of the rapporteur's work or to underestimate the effort he has put in. |
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| I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. |
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| This truth, which Prometheus himself would not gainsay, is proved in this work. |
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| When the gods decree matters of this kind, it's not our place to gainsay them. |
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| We may not gainsay the outcome but we can say that if the Commission rules against Deputy Collins the party leadership will have little room for manoeuvre. |
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| Now, I don't gainsay the need to start the transition process. |
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| And when Father had done investigating into his background found out he was the only son of an earl, and given his tacit approval of the match, how could she gainsay him? |
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| So, claim above-average looks yourself, and who is to gainsay you? |
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| Almost nobody dares to gainsay him, even when he goes over the top. |
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| Physics and chemistry are similarly going out of fashion in Britain, and who is to gainsay the value of knowing the laws of thermodynamics and the place of polonium in the periodic table? |
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| I believe, however, that history will not gainsay us and will confirm the political and historic values of this promising step of recent enlargement by Europe. |
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| If any person, of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord. |
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| The recurrent and perennial issues of poverty and illiteracy, which gainsay human development and human dignity, have been given their due in all the relevant debates. |
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