Smith has had to meet these with a detailed rebuttal such as used to be made--of course with less care and fullness--on the ordinary English Secularist platform forty or even seventy years ago.
Testimony like that of the receiver of the Crown taxes inrebuttal of charges seemed to weigh little.
On the other hand, when their rebuttal was read, they hung their heads, and showed by their gestures that they considered it a mean and useless makeshift as compared with our Confession.
When also this scheme of theirs was defeated, they finally succeeded in gaining the glory that they did not dare to hand over their futile rebuttal nor to give us an opportunity to reply to it!
The last speakers of the rebuttal speeches should never rest content with leaving only refutation in the hearers' minds.
If cards are used, arguments to be used in the main debate might be arranged in one place, material for rebuttal in another, quotations and statistics in still another.
Since the speeches are shorter and the material is restricted there is always the disposition to userebuttal speeches for refutation only.
If the team consist of three speakers and all are allowed to appear in rebuttal the entire order is as follows.
Rebuttal speeches are additional speeches allowed to some or all the speakers of a debating team after the regular argumentative speeches have been delivered.
Often the rebuttal speeches of debate, coming at the close of the regular debate speeches, seem reserved for all the refutation.
The speakers upon one side will arrange among themselves the order in which they will speak but there should be a clear understanding beforehand as to whether rebuttal speeches are to be allowed.
After the rebuttal the last points left with the judges should be constructive arguments.
We'll call evidence inrebuttal to prove that he is a liar--that he couldn't have seen the window.
It was arranged that Inspector Chippenfield should be called to give evidence in rebuttal as to the impossibility of seeing the library window through the tree, and that an arboriculturist should also be called.
He was neither quick at rebuttal nor at repartee, but so surely did his character impress itself on every one that when he spoke the Assembly almost took it for granted that he had said the final word on the subject under discussion.
Owing to the fact that the discovery of the knives had taken the defense somewhat by surprise, it was permitted to sandwich its rebuttal testimony in between the speeches.
The rebuttalevidence for the prosecution was now in order.
If she had assaulted him with the reproaches of an unfed passion, there would have been some savage response of rebuttal in him, to save them both from this meager sort of shame.
All at once it seemed he could be definitely allowed to treat himself to a little wholesome rebuttal of Anne and her ways.
And even if the testimony I desire to put in is not rebuttal in its character, no unbiassed judge would deny to counsel the privilege of reopening his case when any new or important fact has come to light.
The defence having rested the night before, the first action of the Judge on the opening of the court was to demand whether the prosecution had any rebuttal testimony to offer.
It is better to make the rebuttal a little less sweeping than it might be and have it fall pat on the speech which it is attacking.
For purposes of rebuttalit is usual to have material on cards arranged under the principal subdivisions of the subject, so that they can readily be found.
If from the beginning you practice making your speeches in rebuttal offhand, you will constantly gain in confidence when you are called on to speak.
Ready and spontaneous skill in rebuttal is the final excellence of debating.
Feuerbach's special service consists in the rebuttal of the metaphysic in which religion had chronically taken refuge from the straightforward criticism of freethinkers, in itself admittedly unanswerable.
He squared his shoulders with unconscious rebuttal of sympathy.
All his loud rebuttal of anxiety now could not cover an undercurrent of uneasiness that made the anxiety of the two women tenfold greater when he was gone.
That Ruef's testimony that he had divided the money with Schmitz was not proper rebuttal evidence.
Ruef said, with one of his most winning smiles, in substance, 'I guess he is going to put me on in rebuttal just as he did in the Schmitz case.
A rebuttal speech usually furnishes an excellent test of a debater's mastery of his subject.
In both class room and intercollegiate debating each side usually makes two speeches, a main speech and a rebuttal speech.
Some definite system of arranging rebuttal material is absolutely indispensable.
The main points of the opposition can then be assigned for rebuttal to the various members of the team, and each debater can give thorough treatment to his assignment.
The rebuttal speech, commonly called the rebuttal, is usually a little less than half the length of the main speech, and is for the most part destructive.
In this case there are no complications; but when two teams are debating, the members of each must decide among themselves as to how the rebuttal shall be handled.
A debater should begin on the classification of rebuttal material almost as soon as he begins to read on his subject.
The debaters on either side may or may not speak in rebuttal in the same order as in the main argument.
In many respects the last rebuttal speeches on each side are the most conspicuous and decisive parts of a debate.
The sur-rebuttal of the defense occupied but a few minutes.
Outside of this evidence of a desire for wholesale slaughter nothing developed of sufficient importance to warrant the production of sur-rebuttal witnesses, except in the testimony of Auspos and Reese.
In rebuttal of testimony produced by the defense the prosecution introduced a series of witnesses.
The inquiry of the Ministry of the Interior regarding the feasibility of such an "assortment" met with a strongly-worded rebuttal from the governor-general of New Russia, Vorontzov.
Footnote 1: This insolent demand of the unenlightened Russian burghers met with the following dignified rebuttal from the Jewish office-holders: "What bitter mockery!
The closingrebuttal speech is always a critical one.
Each speaker is ordinarily allowed one constructive speech and one rebuttal speech.
We open this month's column with another rebuttal from Ackerman: "Since the pros and cons on my Boiling Point article have changed around to discussions of character, I wish to state that I do not like H.
In next month's column, Clark Ashton Smith presents a rebuttal to the vociferous letter of D.
