Another claim neo-Confederates make is that the Civil War was not about slavery, the "proof" being that only 0.00000004% of Confederates ever even thought about owning slaves, and never mistreated any.
"Current efforts have failed – the proof being that obesity levels are higher than they have ever been, and show no chance of reducing despite the best efforts of government and scientists".
The plan was for Bush to slam his former Florida protégé as a shirker and a grifter, the proof being that he has been running around the country campaigning for President instead of dutifully staying in Washington to vote on bills and "do constituent service, which means that he shows up to work".
The quizzically non-comical and bourgeois Leopoldo could indeed be the subject of a novel or a movie — the proof being that he's the subject of "To Rome with Love" — but, sadly, this clerk, having not fostered his own artistic imagination, is at the mercy of the unworthy excavators and exploiters of the popular press.
The quizzically non-comical and bourgeois Leopoldo could indeed be the subject of a novel or a movie the proof being that he's the subject of "To Rome with Love"—but, sadly, this clerk, having not fostered his own artistic imagination, is at the mercy of the unworthy excavators and exploiters of the popular press.
Even worse, I'd argue... our global leadership seems equally afflicted... the proof being that despite best efforts, conferences, diplomacy, pledges and the like, our daily news -- full of killing, hatred, war, terrorism, violence and such... seems never to abate -- if anything it seems to spread.
