Then, in the aftermath of 9/11, the United States government decided to demonstrate its military might and reconfigure its strategic situation.
Suppose God decided to demonstrate otherwise by showing up one day at the Institute for Advanced Study to teach a new game to Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
In the face of the twin affronts, Mr. Icahn apparently decided to demonstrate his power to damage G.M.'s stock price by walking away from the company.
Just then, 12-year-old Brian Watcke decided to demonstrate one of his favorite features of the 10-foot-high fort: the free-fall.
Mr. Spurlock, known for his caustic film about fast food, "Super Size Me," decided to demonstrate how branded entertainment works by, well, demonstrating how it works.
Charli XCX has just decided to demonstrate how she suffers from anxiety by climbing on to the extra-long table and crawling along it on all fours, like a disobedient toddler.
In late May, the state decided to demonstrate some of these issues to Stanton by flying him over areas that needed boom, and staging areas where it sat, apparently unused.
Except – aha! – when the 19th-century physicist Léon Foucault decided to demonstrate these effects with a giant pendulum, he did so in the Panthéon – the deconsecrated church that the revolutionaries turned into a shrine to the "Great Men of the Patrie".
When I asked why the group had decided to demonstrate here, a protester named Matt Hawley explained that during the week's evening General Assemblies, "they've been talking about this event that was gonna happen, and teaching people about the Koch brothers and Cain and Romney".
Unfortunately, it was decided to demonstrate this solidarity in Helmand province, where the British military presence largely provoked a war with local Afghans in which 453 British military personnel were killed, 247 had limbs amputated and £40bn was spent to no particular end.
