Word: proving
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...Ryan also told the judge that even if the students have proper standing to bring the suit, they cannot prove violation...
...testimony of two convicted felons who traded their stories for plea bargains. Moreover, Noriega's long association with the CIA could block any successful prosecution. His lawyers are certain to demand access to classified material that the Government will be reluctant to release, a tactic that has proved successful in the Iran- contra trials. Warns Richard Gregorie, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Miami: "((Noriega)) would be entitled to say that he was getting his money from the CIA, and would request documents to prove...
...people's standard of living continues to deteriorate, Gorbachev may face the disagreeable choice of reverting to genuinely dictatorial methods or retiring in failure and defeat. He will consider himself worthy of the praise and admiration he has inspired abroad only if and when he can prove that his political genius is up to the task of dealing with the economic problems he faces at home...
Those episodes, scary as they were at the time, should be strangely reassuring in retrospect. They prove that deterrence is something like a force of nature. The very existence of nuclear weapons exercises a gravitational pull on the superpowers during moments of political and military confrontation, tugging them back from the brink. In a real crisis, precise calculations on one side about exactly how many of what kind of weapons the other side has do not matter all that much; what matters is that both have nuclear weapons, period...