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Starring Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monae, "Hidden Figures" has proved to be a domestic smash hit.

Such figures have proved a major bone of contention.

Such figures have proved impossible, so far, to verify.

Yet those figures had proved brittle — inadequate against the untidy barrage of my feelings.

Condemning moves to outlaw interviews with extremists, he said the 1988-1994 banadcast ban on senior Sinn Fein figures had proved the "greatest recruitment agent for the IRA".

The struggle to sell abroad seems to have been the main drag on factory output in the last quarter, although one quarter does not make a trend and the export figures have proved hugely volatile over the past 18 months.

Still, Ipsos has been doing its survey regularly for five years and the figures have proved fairly stable during that time, not wildly volatile which they would have been if they had been flaky.In this section Lost property Firing lines Chilled out Extracting oil, burying data ReprintsTwo conclusions emerge.

Since the findings of Johansson [2], point-light figures have proven to be very useful in studying the visual perception of actions or biological motion.

But even this figure has proven alarmingly grim, as postal leaders lament the challenges with "below-margin" package deliveries and other nonregulated services.

But some of the more specific pledges, notably to cut the NHS waiting list to 100,000 below the Tory figure, have proved hard and costly to fulfil.

For, while the blackamoor had been a tradition in British culture at least since Shakespeare, the figure had proved so invisible as to be tragic a role trapped in dark skin or glimpsed in shadows at the corner of a painting's frame.