" 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.

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.

His new manager, Ralph Horton, later instrumental in his transition to solo artist, soon witnessed Bowie's move to yet another group, the Buzz, yielding the singer's fifth unsuccessful single release, " Do Anything You Say ".

This move out of Africa seems to have been unsuccessful and by c. 60, 000 BC in Israel / Syria, especially at Amud, classic Neanderthal groups seem to have profited from the worsening climate to have replaced Homo sapiens, who seem to have been confined once more to Africa.

Over the next three minutes, the controller made five unsuccessful attempts to contact Flight 175, and worked to move other aircraft in the vicinity away from Flight 175.

This move was unsuccessful because Theodore was an agnostic and lacked his father's talent for leadership.

More importantly she was instrumental in the recall of Jacques Necker as Finance Minister on 26 August, a popular move, even though she herself was worried that the recall would again go against her if Necker was unsuccessful in reforming the country's finances.

Spanky McFarland's only starring feature-film vehicle was the 1936 Hal Roach film General Spanky, an unsuccessful attempt to move the Our Gang series into features.

This move was unsuccessful in that it failed to end the affair, but it did result in Hašek renewing his focus on writing.

After the election of Theobald I as king of Navarre, his father tried to arrange a marriage for Alfonso with Theobald's daughter, Blanche of Navarre, but the move was unsuccessful.

During the 1880s and 1890s, there were a series of unsuccessful efforts to move the county seat to nearby Independence.

The plant was nicknamed " Fortress Wapping " when the sacked print workers effectively besieged it, mounting round-the-clock pickets and blockades in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to thwart the move.

Despite them wanting to move into Windy Corner after the death of Mrs Honeychurch, Freddy sold the house to support his family as he was " an unsuccessful but prolific doctor.

In 2003 the town made an unsuccessful formal proposal to get the Dallas Cowboys to move to a “ 5-Point Park ” on the banks of Lake Ray Hubbard when the lease for Texas Stadium expires.

A major campaign, developed by Ngo Dinh Nhu and later resurrected under another name was the " Strategic Hamlet Program " which was regarded as unsuccessful by Western media because it was " inhumane " to move villagers from the countryside to fortified villages.

But this move was unsuccessful.

Following an unsuccessful move to the United States in 1975, the band's popularity waned but was unexpectedly revived in 1980 when they were last minute replacements for Ozzy Osbourne at the Reading Rock Festival.

During his time as Governor of Minnesota, he masterminded an unsuccessful plan to move the capital of the territory from St. Paul to St. Peter, where he owned land that would have been eminently suitable for use as the new capitol grounds.

After ( apparently ) several unsuccessful attempts, Tommy, Billy and Pee Wee finally see several girls showering, but Pee Wee gives them away when he shouts at a particularly fat girl ( who has been blocking his view ) to move so he can see.

Critics blamed Houllier's unsuccessful summer signings in 2002, namely El Hadji Diouf ( Lens, £ 10 million ), Salif Diao ( Sedan, £ 5 million ) and Bruno Cheyrou ( Lille, £ 4 million ), and his failure to make Nicolas Anelka's loan move permanent in favour of signing the ineffective Diouf.

Aside from that controversy, the new retailing strategy was not only unsuccessful, it also gave rival Sears Canada the opportunity to move up to the market segment long dominated by Eaton's.

She was unsuccessful in her initial attempts to move beyond local government, contesting the Lancashire Central constituency at the 1984 European Parliament election, and North Shropshire and Ellesmere Port and Neston at the 1983 and 1987 general elections.

A subsequent move to enter the Southern Football League was unsuccessful.

Despite this move being unsuccessful, McMahon was also able to air the historic " War to Settle the Score " and " Brawl to End it All " wrestling cards on MTV ; in addition, McMahon also still had the most recognized wrestler in the industry, Hulk Hogan.

He and Senator Edwards were absent for the unsuccessful vote to invoke cloture on the FMA, a procedural move that the FMA's proponents had conceded beforehand would be defeated.