The innocent can no longer prove their innocence.
Prospective daughters-in-law need no longer prove their worth by preparing a good "pho" — the national broth.
The moment still happens at City Ballet, but it no longer proves a gateway, as it once did, to Advanced Balanchine.
Yet as the Spanish move, and the commission's decision to allow it, suggest, when times are tough the draw of abstract principles no longer proves so magnetic.
He is supposedly in the scene of Joan Cusack's engagement party in "Working Girl" (1988), for instance, but you can no longer prove it, even by him.
Now, when Mr. Underwood is no longer proving himself as useful as she previously thought, she's willing to drop him — and certainly less eager to sleep with a married who's older than her dad.
Criminal charges against the Church of Scientology in the death of a church member who was under the organization's care were dropped yesterday because Florida prosecutors said they could no longer prove the accusations.
Thorpe, who has been outspoken against the use of drugs, said the despairing thing was that the current urine-based testing procedures were so deficient that innocent athletes can no longer prove their innocence.
Arizona senator John Mccain, who pushed for the groups to be armed two years ago, said it was "long overdue" but may no longer prove decisive in the face of more than 33,000 Isis fighters.
