This he managed to demonstrate, ever so faintly.
Isa Gambar, head of one opposition party, Musavat, claims that he was cheated in last year's presidential elections, and that his followers have been denied television coverage and permission to demonstrate ever since.
As national governments demonstrate ever higher levels of indifference and incompetence in addressing our shared crisis, it becomes ever more critical that responsibility devolve to both localities and individuals, especially those who are the biggest consumers and polluters: us.
Forget the Stones' date at Glastonbury up the road; here's the band that is the real guardian of British rock, enduring but ever-mutating, and – as the weekend's music demonstrated – ever-improving: Hawkwind.
The laws are supposed to keep people from voting under assumed names, and while nobody seems able to demonstrate that ever really happens, they are demonstrably good at protecting the public from a 98-year-old ballot-wielding nun.
This is further reflected in the continual shift from prescriptive to performance based design in many parts of the world demonstrating an ever growing acceptance that these buildings are beyond the realm of applicability of prescriptive guidance.
Not only was it targeted, but Flood Wall Street was also BIG, demonstrating that ever more people are setting their sites on the root of the problem, not distracted by shiny baubles like "100percentt renewable energy" or "go vegan" or promises of miraculous new technofixes like climate geoengineering designed to perpetuate business as usual.
Other milestones in human evolution that demonstrated our ever-increasing cognitive abilities were fire, jewellery and art.
Revenge may not fit the holiday spirit, but the medley allowed Mr. Feinstein to demonstrate his ever-expanding confidence as a pugilistic jazz swinger in front of a six-member band led by John Oddo.
Beyond rehabilitating his image from the debates, Mr. Perry must also demonstrate to ever-demanding early-state voters that he will pursue their votes in the fashion to which they have grown accustomed: one at a time.
