It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

The Final Solution proved that the Jew-baiter of any variety exposes himself as being implicated in the criminality and madness of others.

The cook got drunk, and President Wheelock proved to be a man of broad talents by carving the ox himself.

Berman, whose fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night club monologist, proved himself very much at home in musical comedy.

Herr Riefling, in everything he gave his large Beethoven Hall audience, proved himself as an interpreter of unobtrusive authority.

Johnson campaigned vigorously, undertaking a public speaking tour of the north, known as the " Swing Around the Circle "; the tour, including speeches in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, proved politically disastrous, with Johnson making distasteful and blasphemous comparisons between himself and Christ, and occasionally engaging in hostile and irrational arguments with hecklers.

Bessel himself originally proved that for non-negative integers n, the equation J < sub > n </ sub >( x ) = 0 has an infinite number of solutions in x.

Malloum proved himself unable to cope with the FROLINAT and at the end decided his only chance was in coopting some of the rebels: in 1978 he allied himself with the insurgent leader Hissène Habré, who entered the government as prime minister.

In refuting the beliefs of the gnostics, Irenaeus stated that " Plato is proved to be more religious than these men, for he allowed that the same God was both just and good, having power over all things, and himself executing judgment.

Euclid himself seems to have considered it as being qualitatively different from the others, as evidenced by the organization of the Elements: the first 28 propositions he presents are those that can be proved without it.

After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.

His reign proved uneventful, and he took little public part in politics, devoting himself to military affairs, in which his advice and experience were of the greatest value, not only to the Saxon corps but to the German army in general.

He later proved himself to be an expert tactician and very skilled field commander.

He proved himself in every way a vigorous opponent of the Lutherans, decreeing that Christian burial was to be refused to apostates, and recreant ecclesiastics were to be delivered to the bishop of Merseburg.

Ranjit Singh proved himself to be a master strategist and selected well qualified generals for his army.

Shaka proved himself to be one of Dingiswayo's most able warriors after the military call up of his age grade to serve in the Mthethwa forces.

These methods proved effective on a small scale, but Shaka himself was restrained by his overlord.

He proved himself to be a superb mathematician and earned a reputation as a skillful astrologer, casting horoscopes for fellow students.

Unlike many other leading Nazis at this juncture, Goebbels proved to have strong convictions, moving himself and his family into the Vorbunker, that was connected to the lower Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery gardens in central Berlin.

Conrad, who was now the nearest kinsman to Baldwin V in the male line, and had already proved himself a capable military leader, then married Isabella, but Guy refused to concede the crown.

Murad IV himself commanded the Ottoman army in the last years of the war, and proved to be an outstanding field commander.

Although Schrödinger himself after a year proved the equivalence of his wave-mechanics and Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, the reconciliation of the two approaches and their modern abstraction as motions in Hilbert space is generally attributed to Paul Dirac, who wrote a lucid account in his 1930 classic Principles of Quantum Mechanics.

Louis X first proved himself at Temple No. 7 in Harlem, where he emerged as the protege of Malcolm X. Louis X was appointed head minister of Boston Temple No. 11, which Malcolm X had established earlier.

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.

As discussed above, in ZFC, the axiom of choice is able to provide " nonconstructive proofs " in which the existence of an object is proved although no explicit example is constructed.

Although cheap and effective in enabling use of some software that only used official ROM entry points for text output, this solution proved very slow because the Electron had to be placed into an 80-byte-pitch display to be able to get anywhere near to reproducing mode 7 and the CPU spent a lot of time drawing approximations of mode 7 characters and graphics that in a hardware solution would be achieved without any CPU processing.

Despite his lack of experience, Claudius proved to be an able and efficient administrator.

In many of his movies, as well as on stage, Kaye proved to be a very able actor, singer, dancer and comedian.

However, the facilities proved to be able to barely handle the flood of immigrants that arrived in the years just before World War I.

Washington proved an able administrator.

Despite his lack of political experience, Claudius proved to be an able administrator and a great builder of public works.

Despite having received no military education, Julian proved to be an able military commander, obtaining an battle of Strasbourg | important victory in Gaul and leading a Roman army under the walls of the Sassanid Empire's capital.

Huge water defences were created by damming the local streams and the resulting fortifications proved able to withstand assaults by land and water in 1266.

So long as everyone was using the same tactics these weaknesses were not immediately apparent, but with the advent of the Roman legion they proved fatal in every major engagement, the most famous being the Battle of Pydna, as the Romans were able to advance through gaps in the line and easily defeat the phalangites once in close.

Though the Nepalese were able to inflict heavy losses to the British army on various fronts, the larger army and the superior weapons of the British proved too strong.

Under the strong and able leadership of Osman, these warriors quickly proved a formidable force, and the foundations of the Empire were quickly laid.

Its new police force proved to be a major improvement in outlook and behavior over its thuggish predecessor but was not fully able to deter crime.

The apparently genial Moríñigo soon proved himself a shrewd politician with a mind of his own, and the Liberals resigned within a few weeks when they realized that they would not be able to impose their will on him.

He proved to be an able Pope, with an unlimited capacity for work and a lawyer's eye for detail, and a wise statesman, the general object of whose policy was to free the Papacy from its dependence upon Spain.

After the 1984 elections had proved inconclusive with neither the Alignment nor Likud able to form a government, a national unity government was formed with a rotating prime ministership – Shimon Peres took the first two years, and was replaced by Shamir midway through the Knesset term.

On the Navy Board, Pepys proved to be a more able and efficient worker than colleagues in higher positions: a fact that often annoyed Pepys, and provoked much harsh criticism in his diary.

Introduced in 1989, the Volant skis proved expensive to produce, and in spite of numerous positive reviews the company never able to become profitable.

The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the Norse were not able to mount a further attack that year.

PARC's West Coast location proved to be advantageous in the mid-1970s, when the lab was able to hire many employees of the nearby SRI Augmentation Research Center as that facility's funding from DARPA, NASA, and the U. S. Air Force began to diminish.

Sebetwane proved an able leader, and is spoken of with warm respect by David Livingstone, who met him in 1851 shortly before his death.

His early experiments were successful in detecting the signal, and he quickly proved to be able to do so at long ranges.

Yuri proved to be an able soldier, but a difficult person and he soon ran afoul of his wife.