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.

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.

In the conduct of these and many other campaigns, the Hetman proved to be a much abler journalist than his critics allowed.

After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

for if this can be proved we shall surely be the gainers -- I mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a delight ''.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

The same can be said of shaving yet the electric razor has proved useful to many men.

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.

This material proved to be unsatisfactory, since we could not obtain reproducible results on various portions of the sample.

No general installation should be made until a model installation has been proved and its maximum capability determined.

Walton dropped everything to serve as a district co-ordinator in the hard-fought Wisconsin primary and proved so useful that he was promoted to be liaison officer to critically important New York City.

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

In this tangle of conflicting claims, the patent-sharing scheme adopted by the A.L.A.M. at its founding proved to be the best device for avoiding or mitigating the burdens of incessant litigation.

It might be, indeed it had already proved to be a marriage without love, but it was marriage.

The Hotel Westmore proved to be one of the older hotels in Pearson City, and definitely second-rate.

Then Heywood Sullivan, Kansas City catcher, singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run.

It was the first time we've been ahead this season ( when John Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field goal ) ''.

Yet this cannot be proved.

She said that proved she wasn't to be trusted with a fire in her room, and she could be burned to a crisp without anybody knowing it.

Stephenson is decidedly not a prodigy ; but his babe-in-the-woods routine has proved irresistible for some, who are hailing his seemingly innate ability to meld the products of exhaustive historical research with what they see as a brilliant, idiosyncratic sense of humor and adventure.

However, on one occasion, the decision to kidnap and modify the young college prodigy Takeshi Hongo proved to be their undoing.

Okita proved to be a prodigy ; he mastered all the techniques and attained the Menkyo Kaiden scroll ( license of total transmission ) in the ryu at the age of eighteen or so.

Despite the poor performance the 2007 season saw the emergence of teenage rugby prodigy Kurtley Beale and proved to be a rebuilding stage in the waratahs super 14 championship run.

" Nonetheless, it proved highly successful, and is still regularly performed today.

A right upper lobectomy was performed successfully for what proved to be a lung cancer ( adenocarcinoma ).

However, this proved no hindrance to his coronation, for Vortigern himself performed the ceremony instead of a bishop.

It was his Symphony No. 3, however, first performed by Koussevitsky in 1939, which proved to be the composer's biggest breakthrough and made him practically a household name.

It was not until the first crystals of the tobacco mosaic virus ( TMV ) obtained by Wendell Stanley in 1935, the first electron micrographs of TMV produced in 1939 and the first X-ray crystallographic analysis of TMV performed in 1941 proved that the virus was particulate.

Emergency brain surgery was performed at the hospital to try to save him, but that effort proved to be futile, and Kim died 4 days after the bout, on November 17.

Beebe was enthusiastic about the new station, and it proved very successful for conducting the same detailed analyses of wildlife within small areas that had been performed at Kalacoon.

Davis also proved to be an able talent-spotter ; much of 1970s fusion was performed by bands started by alumni from Davis ' ensembles, including The Tony Williams Lifetime, Weather Report, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock's funk-infused Headhunters band.

While working at the Marine Biological Station, Warburg performed research on oxygen consumption in sea urchin eggs after fertilization, and proved that upon fertilization, the rate of respiration increases by as much as sixfold.

He performed on percussion – and spoons – and sang occasionally, but his primary role soon proved to be as Art Director for the band.

The background to Gull's work was research performed by Claude Bernard in 1855 around the concept of the Milieu intérieur and subsequently by Moritz Schiff in Bern in 1859, and who showed that thyroidectomy in dogs invariably proved fatal ; Schiff later showed that grafts or injections of thyroid reversed the symptoms in both thyroidectomised animals and humans.

First performed in Vienna on 10 March 1875, the work proved so popular that it remained in the repertory of the Vienna Staatsoper continuously until 1938.

Input to the machine was performed in the form of punched paper tape, after experiments with punch cards proved unsatisfactory.

Through his influence, Settle's Empress of Morocco ( 1673 ) was twice performed at Whitehall, and proved a great success.

The banknotes proved to be very well made, and the currency performed well on the international market, being stronger than the pound sterling and the South African rand.

Her UK tours proved popular, and in the mid 1960s she performed farewell tours in Australia, Canada and America-the last performance was recorded and released years later.

Although in early stages and even after the recent elections, it was rumored the existence of the party might be difficult but this was proved wrong when the party performed extremely well despite the predictions.

Yardley proved to be a very good administrator and during the war the people of MI-8 performed well even if they did not have any spectacular successes.

Further testing is being performed against Clostridium difficile ( C. Diff ) spores with higher concentrations of ethanol and dodecanoic acid, which proved effective with a contact time of ten minutes.

The appointment to command of the Sixth Army was as a result of his royalty, but the level of study he had performed before he took command was a factor behind his successful direction of the Sixth Army, and he proved to be a highly able commander.

At any rate, Marston proved a good match for the stage — not the public stage of Henslowe, but the " private " playhouses where boy players performed racy dramas for an audience of city gallants and young members of the Inns of Court.

A second historical tragedy, A faithful Servant of his Lord (, 1826, performed 1828 ), attempted to embody a more heroic gospel ; but the subject of the superhuman self-effacement of Bankbanus before Duke Otto of Meran proved too uncompromising an illustration of Kant's categorical imperative of duty to be palatable in the theatre.

It ultimately proved to be a set-up, however, as Orton attacked the Undertaker and performed an RKO on him just to show an example of what could happen at WrestleMania when he faces the Undertaker.

Hydroxyl bonds and silicon-oxygen bonds also proved to exist after infrared absorption spectral analyses were performed.