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 château was lavish, refined, and dazzling to behold, but these characteristics proved tragic for its owner: the king had Fouquet arrested shortly after a famous fête that took place on 17 August 1661 where Molière's play ' Les Fâcheux ' debuted.

Fox's biographer notes that these failed negotiations were " a stunning experience " for Fox, who had always insisted that France desired peace and that the war was the responsibility of King George and his fellow monarchs: " All of this was being proved false ... It was a tragic end to Fox's career ".

This same trip proved tragic as both of Elizabeth's children became ill with diarrhea.

September 1903 proved a tragic month for Fitzsimmons, as his rival, Con Coughlin, died the day after suffering a one-round knockout at the hands of Fitzsimmons.

The fate of the invention, mentioned in Kybalchych's last letter, proved to be as tragic as that of its 27 year old creator.

Seldes believed that blocking publication of this interview proved tragic.

The worries proved unnecessary, for Barrientos perished in a tragic helicopter crash on April 27, 1969.

" With an arresting appearance and a dominant stage presence, she proved most effective as strong, tragic characters, her Gertrude in Hamlet being accounted by some critics the finest they had seen.

While at the start it seemed a logical ( if desperate ) move that would help, it proved to be the most critical and tragic mistake of the whole Sartan race, as the dead eventually escaped from Sartan control.

One misadventure proved tragic and marked Schmidt for the rest of his life.

The airline's second accident proved to be tragic.

Humayun's reign proved brief thereafter ; he died following a tragic accidental fall within the fort complex at Sher Mandal only a year later, in Jan. 1556.

Nothing is known about Frederick's life before this event, but he proved to be Imperial ally throughout Henry's struggles against other Swabian lords, namely Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Frederick's predecessor, and the Zähringen and Welf lords.

In the event this proved unachievable and instead Leicester employed William Spicer to rebuild and extend the castle so as to provide modern accommodation for the royal court and symbolically boost his own claims to noble heritage.

It was a promise that, in the event, he was unable to keep after his search for alternative landing grounds proved fruitless.

In any event, Kurt Gödel in 1930 – 31 proved that while the logic of much of PM, now known as first-order logic, is complete, Peano arithmetic is necessarily incomplete if it is consistent.

The Hells Angels provided security that proved far less benevolent than the security provided at the Woodstock event: 18-year-old Meredith Hunter was stabbed and killed during The Rolling Stones ' performance after he brandished a gun and waved it toward the stage.

Oldsmobile boasted in a 1965 press release that “ a Jetstar I proved to be the top accelerator of the entire event ” at the 1965 Pure Oil Performance Trials in Daytona beach.

All attempts by enthusiastic readers to find historical evidence of the event, characters, or even Appleyard College, have proved fruitless.

Two examples are most commonly cited: the insistence of Indian and Northern Affairs ’ representatives that the Naskapis live in row houses that, in the event, proved not to be adequately soundproofed and that had a variety of other faults ; and the fact that the brochure prepared by Indian and Northern Affairs showed a fully landscaped site with trees and bushes, whereas no landscaping was done, and no trees or bushes were ever planted.

The event proved to be a great success, generating more money than Butler had anticipated and allowing him to complete production on the film.

The battle proved to be a decisive one for the rule of the Scanian lands and it has been described as the most significant event for Charles ' personality ; Charles commemorated this date for the rest of his life.

Starting from theorems proved by Stephen Hawking, Jacob Bekenstein conjectured that the black hole entropy was proportional to the area of its event horizon divided by the Planck area.

When Charles endeavoured to raise a guard for his own person at York, intending it, as the event afterwards proved, to form the nucleus of an army, Lord Fairfax was required by Parliament to present a petition to his sovereign, entreating Charles to hearken to the voice of his Parliament, and to discontinue the raising of troops.

Likewise, in his assessment of the German perspective at Arnhem, Robert Kershaw concluded that " the battle on the Waal at Nijmegen proved to be the decisive event " and that Arnhem became a simple matter of containment after the British had retreated into the Oosterbeek perimeter.

Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock displaying a t-shirt with an older version of the UFC logo. UFC 40 proved to be the most critical event to date in the Zuffa era.

Although at the time C. S. Lewis wrote Miracles, quantum mechanics ( and physical indeterminism ) was only in the initial stages of acceptance, he stated the logical possibility that if the physical world was proved to be indeterministic this would provide an entry ( interaction ) point into the traditionally viewed closed system, where a scientifically described physically probable / improbable event could be philosophically described as an action of a non physical entity on physical reality.

In any event, DiBernardo's death proved profitable for Gravano, as he took over the deceased man's control of Teamsters Local 282.

The desperately fought battle of Freiburg against Franz von Mercy's Bavarians ( 3, 5 and 9 August 1644 ) proved the chief event of the first campaign, after which the French successfully besieged Philippsburg.

McCosh realized that much of Darwinism could and would be proved sound, and so he strove to prepare Christians for this event.

Each " full " birth certificate issued is actually a certified copy of an entry from the register of births, either that held by the local Register office or at the General Register Office for England and Wales, Southport ; it does not certify the birth but the information given in the register entry thus being legally conclusive evidence of the event unless proved otherwise.

If the delator lost his case or refused to carry it through, he was liable to the same penalties as the accused ; he was exposed to the risk of vengeance at the hands of the proscribed in the event of their return, or of their relatives ; while emperors like Tiberius would have no scruples about banishing or putting out of the way those whom he had no further use for and who might have proved dangerous to himself.

In the event, maintenance across the beaches proved easier than expected, partly because of the successful introduction of the new amphibious DUKW vehicle which had been introduced in large numbers.

The event proved popular and lent itself to illustrations on pottery.

The event proved to be one of the greatest psychological shocks to the American people in the 20th century and led to Kennedy being revered as a martyr and hero.

This event proved to be a key juncture in the history of German literature, as Goethe was inspired by Herder's literary criticism to develop his own style.