As T.R. Reid (my editor way back in the 13th century when I was a college intern at The Washington Post) noted in The Post this week: "Increasing health-care coverage is one of the most powerful tools for reducing the number of abortions — a fact proved by years of experience in other industrialized nations".
A difficulty overcome, a riddle solved, an enemy vanquished, a fact proved, an error destroyed in such things he finds the meaning of life and surcease from its sorrows.
Judicial notice allows a court to consider a fact proven without evidence being submitted, and is typically invoked with reference to common knowledge or facts whose accuracy cannot reasonably be disputed.
With built-in video cameras now the norm for mobile phones, anyone can be a film-maker – a fact proven by the role social content played in TV news coverage of the recent uprisings in the Middle East.
A map equal to what it maps would be more than "cumbersome"; it would be disastrous — a fact proven by Neil Gaiman's return to the maps of Borges and Carroll in his short story "The Mapmaker," in which Borges's empire becomes China, and the avaricious desire for a representation equal to reality is embodied by an emperor.
But that amplified power can't be denied, a fact proven on Thursday night at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, when Mr. Branca played his Symphony No. 12 (subtitled "Tonal Sexus") with instrumentation similar to what he used at the beginning of his symphonic career, a group of seven guitarists (separated into soprano, tenor and alto), bass and drums.
A fact proven by the pains the company had to endure keeping the manufacturing process in the New York City area.
These three faculties exist in every human in a small measure, a fact proven by the experience of déjà vu, for instance, a phenomenon referred to in the Arabic philosophic tradition as "the veridical dream" (al-manâm al-sâdiq).
He also claimed that Russians had no involvement in the supposedly organic separatist movement in Eastern Ukraine — a "fact" proven demonstrably false, but often repeated last spring to international confusion.
And the presence of racism in policing is a fact proven by some of the country's best journalists and acknowledged by Canada's highest-ranking police officer.
Meanwhile, mainstream media and entertainment treats HIV as either a historical footnote or glosses over the subject entirely – a fact proven once again by the recent Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which arguably neuters his radical legacy by creating a pleasant, 'safe' narrative that won't piss off Middle England – or, of course, hinder its box-office numbers.
