FISA limits the government's ability to wiretap American citizens, normally permitting such a wiretap only after the government provides a special court proof that there is reason to believe the intended target of the wiretap has ties to crime or terrorism.
It may have been the moment when we tried to whip up concern that regimental cap badges would be replaced by the 12 golden stars of the EU; or perhaps the period when we tried to outbid each other in our ardour to save the royal yacht; or it could have been the time when we thought that being condemned by judge after judge was special proof of our raucous Essex virility.
Arizona chose to create two standards when it chose to add special "proof of citizenship" to register.
Because there is no mental state required to be guilty of the offense, the government could require, for instance, that drug manufacturers apply a special tamper-proof coating to all pills, thus making the sale of tainted drugs practically impossible, without intruding on the thoughts of any future seller.
We then construct a special OR-proof variant of this scheme and prove that the resulting IBI scheme is secure under concurrent attacks.
"Viennese postal authorities," wrote historian Robert Herzstein, "had a special bomb-proof room, which they used to examine packages addressed to Wiesenthal".
If one is to occur, it should start with the question, "What are armed forces for?" Assuming the services exist to fight and win wars, those seeking fundamental change in the composition of combat units carry a special burden of proof.
In 1834, silver dollar production was temporarily restarted to supply a diplomatic mission to Asia with a special set of proof coins.
What is required for a consistency proof is an operation which, given a formal derivation, transforms such a derivation into one of a special form, plus proofs that the operation in fact does this and that proofs of the special kind cannot be proofs of an inconsistency.
But what really makes the rink special is its surface: instead of ice, it's made of a special global-warming-proof plastic.
