But this has been due to my natural education as a human and a writer, not because of fear that a scene of mine will prove the straw that breaks some citizen's sanity.
There is also good reason to believe that the woeful productivity performance of the mining sector will prove a temporary phenomenon.
The campaign is a bet that Japan will prove the next gold mine for global investors.
Perhaps the policy of vertical integration which is prompting Arcelor Mittal to buy mines and energy producers at today's high prices will prove to be misplaced.
One hopes that the LCS will prove as survivable in the face of enemy mines as it has been in the face of a hostile Washington.
As she has frequently done, Ms. Henley mines the weaknesses of these women, both inherited and self-made, for the humor that will prove their humanity.
Environmentalists believe it will prove a powerful weapon in the fight to prevent a controversial soda ash mine being built at Lake Natron, which they claim will destroy the unique habitat vital to lesser flamingos throughout the region.
A new mining levy will claw back some of firms' growing profits, supposedly to cover environmental and social costs.Some of these plans will prove little more than red dust blowing in the wind.
