" If we cannot move on to point B until we have proved point A, and if in order to prove point A we must establish it with absolute certainty, then it looks as though we will have a very hard time proving any point at all.

This move proved to be a turn off to all other than her devoted fans.

To top it off, he was asked to move to the outfield to accommodate Rudy York, who was one of the best young hitters of his generation, but was tried at catcher, third base and the outfield and proved to be a defensive liability wherever they played him.

He followed this move with an invasion of Mato Grosso, Brazil, in March 1865, an action that proved to be one of Paraguay's few successes during the war.

Proposals to move to Charing Cross or St James's Park had a similar fate ; the allure of tradition and the historical and political associations of Westminster proved too strong for relocation, despite the deficiencies of that site.

The first Roman expedition to Iberia was unable to bring the Carthaginian troops in the hinterland of Massalia to a pitched battle, so it continued on its way to northern Iberia under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, a move which proved decisive for the outcome of the war.

John Nash proved in 1952 that a game of Hex cannot end in a tie, and that for a symmetric board there exists a winning strategy for the player who makes the first move ( by the strategy-stealing argument ).

The franchise even changed its team colors in 1996 from its traditional red, white, and blue to teal, burgundy, gold and black in what proved to be a highly unpopular move with fans.

This move proved unsuccessful, however, as Stephon Marbury wanted to be the biggest star on a team and subsequently forced an in-season trade by refusing a contract extension.

Since it had proved impractical to move the painting to a more controlled environment, the refectory was instead converted to a sealed, climate controlled environment, which meant bricking up the windows.

A somewhat more successful strategy for Batasuna proved to be the one of co-opting existing marginal parties giving the shortest possible notice before an election, so that there was no time for the Spanish Supreme Court to legally assess the lawfulness of this move before the election was held.

Saturday nights usually feature repeats of recent episodes of the channel's original series and occasional film telecasts, after an attempt in early 2009 to use the night to launch a beachhead against Nickelodeon's Saturday night block with the premiere of JONAS and the move of Wizards of Waverly Place from Fridays to Saturdays proved unsuccessful.

It proved to be an astute move and by the age of 14 Phillips was the family's main breadwinner, saving his mother from squalor.

The existence of this force proved to have been a wise move.

En passant captures, on the other hand, are assumed not to be legal, unless it can be proved that the pawn in question must have moved two squares on the previous move.

Napoleon commissioned an artist to depict a more historically-correct court, but the move proved unpopular and the medieval court figures were quickly reinstated.

Ultimately, after a brief period of inactivity and a bout with fibromyalgia, her retirement proved to be short-lived-O ' Connor stated in an interview with Harp that she only intended to retire from making mainstream pop / rock music, and after dealing with her fibromyalgia, chose to move into other musical styles.

This proved to be a very uninspired move, as Austrian hussars suddenly came up and captured these guns.

Historian Ian Beckett suggests around 12, 000 could be regarded as reliable, but even these proved reluctant to move in on the crowd, since it included so many women.

Fontaine's position was offered then to ex-Grand Prix, Praying Mantis and Stratus vocalist Bernie Shaw, and that in retrospect proved to be a winning move.

Despite this, the Dayton Agreement proved to be a highly flexible instrument, allowing Bosnia and Herzegovina to move from an early post-conflict phase through reconstruction and consolidation, passing from a consociationalist approach to a more integrationist one.

The move proved to be pivotal, as Fertitta helped strike TV deals in China, France, Mexico and Germany as well as open alternative revenue streams with a new UFC video game and UFC action figures, among other projects.

The transfer of power to Semyonov proved a particularly ill-considered move.

In practice this proved easy to build but difficult to place in the tube – the fine wires were mechanically weak and tended to move when the tubes were bumped, resulting in shifting colors on the screen.

This move proved particularly wise.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

This move was unpopular with supporters and in the late 1980s significant steps were taken to bring about the club's return to The Valley.

This was an unpopular move among a population that, for many, had spent more than a decade under often brutal foreign occupation.

After over fifty years of the Astros in the National League, this move is unpopular with many Astros fans.

Initially the move was unpopular, but those who objected were simply killed, a practice that quickly concentrated the minds of remaining personnel.

The move was very unpopular in northern Idaho and in violation of a court order.

In an unpopular move, also in 1662, Charles sold Dunkirk to his first cousin King Louis XIV of France for about £ 375, 000.

This was followed by the Bishops ' Book in 1537, a combined effort by numerous clergy and theologians which, though not strongly Protestant in its inclinations, showed a slight move towards Reformed positions and was unpopular with conservative sections of the Church and quickly grew to be disliked by Henry also.

In 1915, Yuan proclaimed himself Emperor of China in a largely unpopular move and was forced to retract his declaration shortly before his death in 1916.

The Blackhawks reached another low point on May 16, 2006, when they announced that popular TV / radio play-by-play announcer Pat Foley was not going to be brought back after 25 years with the team, a move unpopular amongst most Blackhawks fans.

The county seat was moved to Visalia in 1823, as it was the geographical center of the county at that time, but this was an unpopular move, as the overwhelming majority of residents live in northern Campbell County.

From 1982 to 1987, Newburg was an incorporated city, however it was an unpopular move and was eventually dissolved.

The move was unpopular with many senators and Caesar, realizing his mistake, soon ordered Cato's release.

He claimed that the move would raise $ 10 million in the first year, as he believes that SBS's current strategy of showing ads between programs " is unpopular with viewers ".

But the Shah was terrified to attempt such a dangerously unpopular and legally questionable move, and it would take much persuasion and many U. S. funded meetings, which included bribing his sister Ashraf with a mink coat and money, to successfully change his mind.

Among Nuri's first acts as prime minister was the signing of the 1930 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty, an unpopular move since it essentially confirmed Britain's mandatory powers and gave them permanent military prerogatives in the country even after full independence was achieved.

Control of the new company would be given to ABC, a move unpopular with Rediffusion.

His public opposition to the draft led to his dismissal from his position at Columbia University, a move that later led many American universities to establish tenure as a means of protecting unpopular beliefs.

The actor-manager John Philip Kemble, raised seat prices to help recoup the cost of rebuilding, but the move was so unpopular that audiences disrupted performances by beating sticks, hissing, booing and dancing.

Her decision proved to be unpopular but Aquino defended that it was the most practical move.

The plan was very unpopular with supporters, and a campaign, entitled Save Our Hearts, was set up to try to block the move.

His appeals were rejected, though New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman granted a temporary reprieve of Hauptmann's execution and made the politically unpopular move of having the New Jersey Board of Pardons review the case.

Mimicking the A's, he changed the team colors to green and gold and had the Seals wear white skates instead of the traditional black skates, a move deeply unpopular with both players and fans.