U.S. officials had hoped that the presence of Gates and Mullen would demonstrate by example the preeminence of civilian power over military power in the U.S. system, something the administration would like to see evolve in Pakistan's fragile democracy.
"I actually think there are employers out there and graduate school admissions people who would appreciate the candor and the honesty and, frankly, the imagination that one would demonstrate by doing these kinds of things," said Mr. Fitzsimmons, 59, who spent his own summers as a Harvard undergraduate working in his father's convenience store and gas station, and as a recreational counselor.
Mangiante said her fiancé was "very loyal to his country," as he would demonstrate by cooperating with the FBI as "the first domino in the Russia investigation".
Ms. Abrams's Republican counterpart, the House speaker, David Ralston, said the Voting Rights Act decision was an affirmation that his native region "has changed, has matured," and that his party would demonstrate that by appealing to Georgia's changing face.
A successful test by North Korea would demonstrate that it has the technology to launch a missile that could travel as far as the western United States.
A successful test by North Korea would demonstrate that Pyongyang has the technology to launch a missile that could travel as far as the far Western United States.
Even a wary acceptance of the brotherhood, by contrast, would demonstrate that we take seriously the democratic preferences of Arab voters.
In another negative, Mr. Powell's performance on Friday appeared to fall short of public expectations that he would demonstrate that the threat posed by Iraq under Mr. Hussein was so imminent that the only logical response was war as soon as possible.
President Saddam Hussein stated yesterday that the Soviet Union would demonstrate that it is a great power by resisting George Bush's pressure and by supporting the Baghdad regime.
It would demonstrate that the equations drawn up by Einstein, who refused to believe in black holes himself, hold true in what ranks as the most extreme realm of physics.
It was anticipated that provoking a calcitonin response by calcium injection would demonstrate that ablation of the CaSR had altered the normal relationship between ionized calcium and calcitonin levels.
