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Usage examples of proving.

They set themselves gravely about proving that the assignment could not have been in the deed when Talbott got it from young Adams, as he, Talbott, would have seen it when he opened the deed to correct the record.

Wu more or less admitted that the Chi is similar to terrestrial bacteria, it is odd that a mammalian paramyxovirus rather than a bacteriophage was chosen, but Mariella dismisses it as a minor mystery, is more concerned with proving her hypothesis that, after infection, the Chi altered the virus.

The war was, no doubt, useful in withdrawing from Wales a restless and dangerous baronage, and in the rebellion of 1174 the hostility of the border barons would have been far more serious if the best warriors of Wales had not been proving their courage on the plains of Ireland.

She had never much favored the rather risque costume for women espoused by Amanda Bloomer, but she had asked Jason for permission to order one on the chance that she might need it, and it was proving invaluable today.

The new Bonkers had been proving far less cooperative-although experience had taught Pete that it usually took a while for the rabbit to get used to the center stage.

The second man, an ordnance officer at the proving ground, had spectacularly committed suicide by exploding an atomic artillery shell, vaporizing himself and certain key comrades including his superior officer.

Even the most orthodox practitioners had begun to view many forms of illness as internalized behavioral problems--which had always been obvious so far as facial tics, stammers, addictions, and so forth were concerned --and hypnotherapy was proving a useful, inexpensive, effective, and nontoxic form of treatment in many cases: in particular the lowering of blood pressure.

For a moment Dasaratha thought he was about to sketch a mantra in the air, blasting the second Vishwamitra to ashes, proving his own authenticity.

Its students have never ceased to be ornaments to the American pulpit, while some of the number, proving themselves worthy successors of Carey, Marshman, Coke, and Ward, have labored in heathen lands with apostolic zeal.

Wang, who was frustrated that the first years of his masterhood had been spent proving himself to disbelieving rulers, did return to the village deeply troubled.

She had a second child before she was sixteen, who began to menstruate at seven years and six months, thus proving the inheritance of this precocity, and leaving us at sea to figure what degree of grandmother she may be if she lives to an advanced age.

Only the constraints of time and the reappearance of Meryt, wearing a most unseemly smirk, kept him from embracing his beloved barbarian and proving that fact then and there.

Similarly, she had learned while in France that the same was proving true for the French originators of Montayne, Laboratoires Gironde-Chimie.

Croft are bringing the Neutralizer out to the proving grounds in a truck.

As the weather was hot he lay out there all the night, first playing hide and seek with them in the dark till, missing his vixen and the cubs proving obstreperous, he lay down and was soon asleep.