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.

While captured supplies proved useful, water and ammunition were constantly in short supply while a shortage of transport impeded the distribution of the supplies that the Axis forces did have.

The comic proved to be quite successful, running for three years in the student newspaper The Daily Texan while Rodríguez continued to make short films.

Buffalo's command over the game proved short lived as the Cowboys dominated the second half.

For her last call-back he requested that she wear short shorts, which proved to be the most comfortable of all the cast members ' costumes.

Mason's successor Horner proved to be extremely unpopular as governor and his tenure was very short.

Merivale proved to be a stabilizing influence for Leigh ; but, despite her apparent contentment, she was quoted by Radie Harris as confiding that she " would rather have lived a short life with Larry than face a long one without him ".

Furthermore, he sold off the unit's pre-1948 library for a mere $ 3000 each, which proved a short sighted transaction in light of the considerable long term value that the company's animation product proved to have.

They proved that the existence of a proof system in which every true formula has a short proof is equivalent to NP = coNP.

While the British P1903 and its similar predecessor, the P1888, had proved completely satisfactory in service, a storm of criticism soon arose regarding the effective reach of the new short rifles when equipped with fixed bayonet.

The Folgore Parachute Division had already proved its worthiness when they gave very short shrift to a local attack by the British 31st Infantry Brigade at the end of September.

On Match Game PM, a third round was added after the first season as games proved to be too short to fill the half-hour.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

Eirik's reign proved once again of a short duration, since in 954 ( a date on which MSS D and E agree ), the Northumbrians expelled him, too.

His much vaunted " short, sharp shock " policy, whereby convicted young offenders were detained in secure units and subjected to quasi-military discipline won approval from the public but proved expensive to implement and largely ineffectual in stemming burgeoning crime rates.

The short, released on September 5, 1927, officially launched the series and proved to be Disney's greatest success to date.

Cartoons did not have to obey the rules of the real world ( as the short films of Tex Avery and their cartoon physics proved ), and so UPA experimented with a non-realistic style that depicted caricatures rather than lifelike representations.

Carloman's reign proved short and troublesome.

His urgent and repeated request for a public discussion with his opponents, especially with Ursacius and Valens, proved at last so inconvenient that he was sent back to his diocese, which he appears to have reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor Julian.

* In the Monty Python short " The Crimson Permanent Assurance ", business clerks-turned-pirates sail a pirated building and attack competing businesses to build a business empire, when the narrator reads " or so it would have been, if certain modern theories concerning the shape of the world had not proved to be disastrously wrong.

The mining activity at nearby Ruby Creek spurred growth for a short time in 1880, gaining the city a new hotel, but little else was accomplished when the mines proved to be shallow.

However during construction the material in the cutting proved to be unstable, resulting in the construction of the short Mytholmes Tunnel.

For a short period, the Regulators benefited from the appointment of Sheriff John Copeland, who proved sympathetic to their cause.

The regime was short lived and proved unsustainable without British military support.