What is "proven"

Usage examples of "proven".

It mitigates the social effects of a demographic free-for-all by returning to the old, proven assimilationist model of the nineteenth century, which Americanized millions of Poles, Irish, Jews and Italians, who also came to America without money and en masse.

You are mistaken in believing yourself a free woman, bedin, and this will be proven to you.

The fact that they were excellent burrowers had proven their downfall.

It would be no less a problem, if every claim of utility made in behalf of human and animal experimentation were proven beyond the possibility of a doubt.

No doubt you mean well, but I will homologate no course which fastens evil on a man whose righteousness has been abundantly proven.

Too prominently, methought, for his safety, as was proven on the morrow.

Still, the Molts had proven unwilling to shoot toward their infants, and the poofs were more likely to pitch a bunker-buster into the tunnel mouth than they were to shoot at a Slammer in battle dress three times the size of any Molt who ever lived.

It soon became evident that these regiments would be mustered out of the service, as they had proven themselves no more immune, so far as it could be determined from the facts, than other troops.

In Iraq, no one has ever attempted to create a modern pluralistic system that would be backed by the resources of the United States and its allies, and, hopefully, with the assistance of the United Nations and other international organizations that have proven instrumental elsewhere around the world.

I am wrong I freely admit it, and now I admit that the technique of preforming and sinking tunnel sections is not as dangerous as normally assumed and is indeed faster as you have proven.

Eliminate useless investigative paths which historically have proven fruitless in profiling and identifying the offender.

The bigger, more important parts of that dangerous whole are widespread distaste for the way in which Rome attempted to make a virtual satrapy of England and Wales, coupled with a recognition of the fact that Rome is become, in the wake of the utter rout of the Crusaders in England and our proven inability to even resupply our folk besieged in London, far weaker, poorer, and less influential than at any time in the last five centuries.

She knew of the existence of her sole devotee because he had proven himself to be a sleuthy devil in unveiling her hiding place on the Internet.

Unlike not a few of his peers, Don Guillermo did not really like witnessing whippings or maimings or torture, but recognized and accepted that such were the only proven ways to maintain discipline among the commoner sorts and the slaves, so he steeled himself and observed those punishments he had ordered as sternly and blankfacedly as a hidalgo knight should.

But both Therm and Emil and their followers had proven themselves in battle many times and Ben was glad to have them on the Rebel side.