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.

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.

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.

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.

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.