`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

Disaffiliation or disbanding of member clubs accelerated with World War I, resulting in the collapse of the Federation.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

But at least the pessimists who believed that the world organization had plunged to its death in that plane crash in the Congo have been proved wrong.

The supposed tactual sense of spatial location and orientation in the patient and his ability to specify the location of a member, as well as the direction and scope of a movement, passively executed ( with one of his members ), proved to have been, on the contrary, very considerably affected ''.

Should not everyone have been awakened to it as an outstanding fact of our time that the nations poisoned by anti-Semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom than those whose citizens saved their Jewish compatriots from the transports??

Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.

It is the belief of Old Babylonian scholars such as Carruccio that Old Babylonians " may have used the abacus for the operations of addition and subtraction ; however, this primitive device proved difficult to use for more complex calculations ".

Hellen, Graikos, Magnis, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood ; the ethne were said to have originally been named after the elder son Graikoi but renamed later after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

Ideas from it have proved influential, and have been developed by others, in particular dessins d ' enfants and a new field emerging as anabelian geometry.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

The Aegean written documents have not yet proved ( by being found outside the area ) to be epistolary ( letter writing ) correspondence with other countries.

The mother of a bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within 12 months of the birth ( or at any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the child's support within 12 months after the birth ), and the justices, as after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material particular, adjudge the man to be the putative father

Some smaller designs have been used as the basis for specialist fighters, such as night fighters, and a number of fighters, such as the Hawker Hurricane were used as ground attack aircraft bombers, replacing earlier conventional light bombers that proved unable to defend themselves and carry a reasonable bombload.

The massive, reinforced concrete U-boat pens have proved impractical to demolish and are now partly used as a cultural centre for exhibitions.

Even if the text of the Septuagint is proved to be the older, it does not necessarily follow that all these variations first arose after the Greek translation had been made, because two different editions of the same text might have been in process of development side by side ..."

Theoretically, exponential lower bounds have been proved for the DPLL family of algorithms.

Claude Shannon proved, using information theory considerations, that any theoretically unbreakable cipher must have keys which are at least as long as the plaintext, and used only once: one-time pad.

In some cases there have been claims dismissed as conspiracy theories that later proved to be true.

For example in the Netherlands, the law assumes the stronger participant ( e. g. a car driver ) is liable in the case of an accident with a weaker participant ( e. g. a cyclist ) unless it can be proved that the cyclist's behavior could not have been expected.

The Langlands program is a far-reaching web of these ideas of ' unifying conjectures ' that link different subfields of mathematics, e. g. number theory and representation theory of Lie groups ; some of these conjectures have since been proved.

The riveted mail armour worn by the opposing Sudanese Madhists did not have the same problem but also proved to be relatively useless against the firearms of British forces at the battle of Omdurman.

Beria was no easy man to defeat, and his ethnicisation policies ( that a local or republican leaders had to have ethnic origins, and speak the language of the given area ) proved to be a tool to strengthen the MVD's grip on local party organs.

When Germany had its hands free for an attack in the west, the Battle of France began in May 1940, and the same Blitzkrieg tactics proved just as devastating there.

They remained undetected in an observation post through the firefight and proved critical in co-ordinating multiple Coalition air strikes to prevent the al-Qaeda fighters from overrunning the downed aircraft, to devastating effect.

The rapidity, silence, and ferocity of their war parties proved devastating against the colonial style of waging war, but the colonials generally emerged successful in the long term.

Though a ' Golden Age ' for the young Dutch Republic, the 17th century proved rather devastating for Ommen.

But the overall effect of the UN sanctions on Iraqi in the 1990s proved devastating to an already crumbling country.

Thom Bell stopped working with the Stylistics in 1974, and the split proved commercially devastating to the group's success in the U. S. Just as with the Delfonics, the Stylistics were to some extent a vehicle for Bell's own creativity.

The loss of Leslie for the year proved devastating, as the Sparks posted a league-worst 10 – 24 record.

This proved particularly devastating to the population of Tubuai.

" When their son Takeda Katsuyori proved to be a disastrous leader and led the clan to their devastating defeat at the battle of Nagashino, Turnbull writes, " wise old heads nodded, remembering the unhappy circumstances of his birth and his magical mother ".

The high rate of fire of the MG 42 sometimes proved a liability, mainly in that, while the weapon could be used to devastating effect, it could quickly exhaust its ammunition supply.

Auerbach's recipe proved devastating to the opposition.

The defeat proved a devastating setback to Allied ambitions in Spain, and ultimately led to Phillip V retaining the Spanish throne.

For Tveitt, the question proved devastating to his reputation, and contributed significantly to his becoming a persona-non-grata in the post-war musical establishment in Norway.

However, Goldwater's vote on the Civil Rights Act proved devastating to his campaign everywhere outside the South ( other than the South, Goldwater only won in Arizona, his home state ), contributing to his landslide defeat in 1964.

In spite of these precautions, a series of minor mishaps combined with the ever-increasing efficiency of the German anti-aircraft efforts proved to be devastating.

Election day, November 4, 1902, proved to be devastating to the Home Rule Party.

Despite Mario Lemieux's return last season, the absence of Jagr proved devastating to the Penguins, and they missed the playoffs for the first time in 12 years.

These vessels proved devastating during the Shadow War and the subsequent Earth Alliance Civil War.

This fact opened up WEP to a series of attacks which proved devastating.

The closure of the mills proved to be devastating for locals, displacing several hundreds of local employees and their families.

Perestroika proved devastating for the city, as mines were privatized and shut down, causing massive unemployment, which led to a severe rise in crime and drug abuse.

The newer, larger Gurnee Mills proved a much larger draw than expected, devastating Lakehurst's retail base.

In 1953, the county council removed the grandstand and the perimeter fence from the Recreation Ground, which proved to be devastating for the club, as most first class clubs refused to play there.

The Civil War proved devastating to the whites, but freed the blacks from slavery.