The first was the test of the marketplace, which exposed many banks that proved unable to command the confidence of their investors and counterparties or even to make a profit during a downturn.
But many of the raiders, Mr. Steinberg included, now had publicly owned companies tucked under their arms to manage, and it's been informative to see how many of them proved unable to follow through on the promises they made at those bygone annual meetings.
However, many local governments have proved unable to spend or invest these federal funds rapidly or effectively, so there has been little in terms of concrete results from the projects so far.For the moment, the president is basking in pumped-up popularity ratings because of his perceived post-earthquake leadership skills.
Few new antibiotics could be found among cultivatable microbes, and the tools of modern genetics proved unable to pry many new drugs from uncultivatable ones.
Many will prove unable or unwilling to do so themselves.
When impacted by such a hazard, it is likely that many would prove unable to withstand the event (Cappiello and Donn 2011).
Authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people before the typhoon arrived, but many evacuation centres - schools, churches and government buildings - proved unable to withstand the winds and storm surges.
Advance orders from retailers were high, but Sega proved unable to deliver inventory until Boxing Day on December 26, causing many retailers to cancel their orders.
The many women's groups were hopelessly disorganized, and the United Nations, whose peacekeepers were ineffectual in preventing the killings, proved unable to move things forward, one member of his staff said.
He proved unable to govern alone.
