Here a dozen men were proving something; there another group were Controverting it; while twice as many listened, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, or in their turn dashed into the babel.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
I do not believe in interfering with the beliefs, or Controverting the opinions of others."
"Ester Ried"
Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
In this lecture, after Controverting the doctrine of an eminent French writer, who contended that there was no such thing as international law, and that the word law is not applicable to the obligations incumbent upon nations, on the ground that law is a rule of conduct prescribed by a superior; and that nations, being independent, acknowledge no superior, and have no common sovereign from whom they can receive law,-Mr. Adams proceeds to maintain that "by the law of nations is to be understood, not one code of laws, binding alike on all the nations of the earth, but a system of rules varying according to the character and condition of the parties concerned."
"Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams."
Josiah Quincy