Once again the day had proved, in the words of one press secretary for an elected city official whose boss had joined in the media events that Sunday, "90percentt of whether you get coverage is what else is going on that day.
As with almost everything when it comes to moving people around New York, however, the efforts to bring that technology here have proved, in the words of a consultant hired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, "more complex than most, if not all" such jobs in the world.
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, Tom Bartlett writes, "But you also need to prove, in the words of the recruiters, that you're not 'boring,' a 'tool,' or a 'bookworm.'" Yes, of course we stopped short at that last one.
In 1841 he was acquitted of killing one of his former officers by a jury of his peers, despite clear evidence to the contrary, thereby proving, in the words of the Times, "that there was one law for the rich and another for the poor".
Ayed achieved what policymakers and policy wonks believe to be impossible: He united Hamas, Fatah and Israeli allies in a 10-month, unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier; he brought women to the front lines; and he proved that, in the words of his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam: "Even when you are small and have nothing, you can do all this".
If I didn't join the throngs that converged between classes, in the dining hall, in assemblies and social gatherings with my stab at quick wit or charm or whatever it was that I was trying to prove in the weight of words... then who was I? Everything changed that year.
Shackleton felt this physical failure as a personal stigma, and on his return to England he was determined to prove himself, in the words of Discovery's second-in command Albert Armitage, as "a better man than Scott".
The idea was to prove, in other words, that nothing had changed.
But Solidarity proved to be, in the words of a headline of the time, a "backbone that cannot be broken".
Even East Germany, once considered by an errant World Bank to have overtaken the British economy, proved to be, in the words of an astonished West German official, "an economic junk heap".
Cheyvitz cites an ever-so-slightly-dry paper published last year in The Journal of Advertising Research titled The Power of Inertia, Conservatism in Marketing Resource Allocation which proves (in his words), that.
