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.

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".

However, Thomas Crow argues that this path " proved to be less a way forward than a cul-de-sac for history painting.

By 1990, after efforts by Wendy's agency, Backer Spielvolgel Bates, to get humor into the campaign, a decision was made to portray Thomas in a more self-deprecating and folksy manner, which proved much more popular with test audiences.

Margaret became a Quaker and, although Thomas did not convert, his familiarity with the Friends proved influential when Fox was arrested for blasphemy in October.

Combined with counterplays and the excellent cutback running of Thomas, this tactic proved very successful.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, commenting on Aristotle's objection, wrote " Instants are not parts of time, for time is not made up of instants any more than a magnitude is made of points, as we have already proved.

In youth he seems to have been close to all of them, but rivalries with Henry and Thomas proved problematic after 1406.

Economically, Sir Thomas Gresham's founding of the Royal Exchange ( 1565 ), the first stock exchange in England and one of the earliest in Europe, proved to be a development of the first importance, for the economic development of England and soon for the world as a whole.

In retaliation, Fell leased the university's bible printing to three rogue Stationers, Moses Pitt, Peter Parker, and Thomas Guy, whose sharp commercial instincts proved vital to fomenting Oxford's bible trade.

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem.

The latter motive proved to be in vain, and in 1781, under the command of Benedict Arnold, Richmond was burned by British troops, causing Governor Thomas Jefferson to flee the city.

The omission proved particularly embarrassing when, in 1724, Anna's younger sister Eufemia upstaged her by marrying Thomas Saunders, already a Rear-Admiral despite a much shorter period of service.

One, given by Jan Brożek and proved much later by Thomas Hales, is that the hexagon tiles the plane with minimal surface area.

In Australia, the Reverend Childe worked as the minister for St. Thomas ' Parish, but proved unpopular, getting into many arguments with other members of the community and often taking unscheduled holidays into the countryside when he was supposed to be overseeing religious services.

That year, the Warner brothers established the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement Company, a distribution firm that proved lucrative until the advent of Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company ( also known as the Edison Trust ), which charged distributors exorbitant fees.

* Miller-Claytor House: Pre-19th century townhouse where Thomas Jefferson allegedly proved to the owner of the house's garden that tomatoes were not poisonous by eating one of the fruit.

Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder Thomas Bodley, the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sir Andrew Wiles who proved Fermat's Last Theorem.

His major choral work Summer's Last Will and Testament ( after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe ), one of his most emotionally dark works, proved unfashionable in the mood following the death of George V, but Alan Frank hailed it at the time as Lambert's " finest work ".< ref > Lambert himself considered he had failed as a composer, and completed only two major works in the remaining sixteen years of his life.

The murder of a wealthy clothier, Olde Cole or Thomas of Reading, proved to be Jarman's undoing in that they failed to get rid of Cole's horse, leading to their confessing.

Biographer Bob Thomas writes that after three years at the studio, Thalberg continually proved his value.

John Mitchel, a journalist by trade ( who had written for Thomas Davis's newspaper, The Nation before leaving to set up his own paper, only to be arrested, tried for sedition and transported to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land ) proved to be a superb campaigner against British rule in Ireland.

There is no doubt that the Web has proved to be a main focus for language teachers, who are making increasingly imaginative use of its wide range of facilities: see Dudeney ( 2007 ) and Thomas ( 2008 ).

Within the English Church men with whom he had both personal and religious sympathy rose -- Whately, of whom he said, " We know no living writer who has proved so little and disproved so much "; and Thomas Arnold, " a man who could be a hero without romance "; F. D. Maurice, whose character, marked by " religious realism ," sought in the past " the witness to eternal truths, the manifestation by time-samples of infinite realities and unchanging relations "; and Charles Kingsley, " a great teacher ," though one " certain to go astray the moment he becomes didactic.

In the early 19th century, Brougham, a follower of Newton, launched vicious anonymous attacks in the Edinburgh Review against Thomas Young's research that proved light was a wave phenomenon that exhibited interference and diffraction, attacks that slowed acceptance of the truth for a decade until François Arago and Augustin-Jean Fresnel championed Young's work.

George's father was William Anson of Shugborough in Staffordshire and his mother was Isabella Carrier, who was the sister-in-law of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, the Lord Chancellor, a relationship that proved very useful to the future admiral.