Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite the obstacles that await them, the researchers remain optimistic about their work. As they conclude in their paper, "This information may prove useful even before we understand why it is true...
...white farmers who paralyzed traffic by parking farm vehicles on downtown streets. Backed by the Conservative Party and the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, the protesters demanded an end to political reforms. The black violence and right- wing intransigence showed that the final days of apartheid could prove to be as tumultuous as any that have come before...
When the two Germanys prepared to unite last year, one allied anxiety concerned what kind of extraterritorial stormtrooper the reborn Fatherland might prove to be. In July, Nicholas Ridley, then Britain's Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, publicly stated what many privately thought when he said that proposals for a European Community common currency were "a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe." World War II, he added, was "useful to remember...
...strong are neither tempted nor able to intimidate the weak." While he altered Churchill's "finest hour" to the rather less ringing "defining hour," the President did make a stab at the British Prime Minister's flinty eloquence as he prepared the country for a war that could prove long and bloody. "Let future generations understand the burden and blessings of freedom," he declared. "Let them say, 'We stood where duty required us to stand.' " His words of praise for U.S. troops in the gulf brought the audience to its feet and touched off a stirring ovation...
...that resemble war zones, giving the 20% of America's children who live in poverty a way out, funding medical care for the 37 million Americans who have no health insurance, preserving the water, the air and the land for the next generation -- all demand attention, and all may prove every bit as difficult as liberating Kuwait...