He preached against underestimating public taste and took risks that served to prove his point.
The theory concludes: "Even the display with the two boats at the film's climax only served to prove to the people of Gotham that they wouldn't turn on each other.
Mr. Putin skipped the annual "Conversation With Putin" last year, during a period when he was recovering from an injury and rarely appeared in public, and Thursday's appearance served to prove that he was once again fully confident.
Deila's pin-up boy, the Norwegian midfielder Stefan Johansen, only served to prove over 180 minutes against Malmo that he must be one of the most overrated players to feature on the Scottish scene.
Halfway through yet another unrewarding installment of "The X Factor" on Fox on Wednesday night — one decent performance in two hours — it struck me that there is still a way for Simon Cowell to salvage this show, which so far has mostly served to prove the proposition that the singing-competition genre has played itself out.
That is the experience of this war; for every previous attempt at an advance, whether on our own part or on that of the Germans, during the general deadlock of the last 18 months, has only served to prove, the truth of the contention of M. de Bloch, set out in the Economist of January 1st.
There was also terrible space guff such as M Night Shyamalan's horrid Will and Jaden Smith vehicle After Earth, which only served to prove that Scientology on the big screen is still a Very Bad Idea more than a decade on from the execrable debacle that was Battlefield Earth.
Viability of EC cultures exposed to washing solution served to prove efficiency of washing.
(AKBh 193.9 10) One can see how the impossibility of change, coupled with the doctrine of impermanence, served to prove that all things persisted for only a moment.
Investigation of individual clones served to prove persistent and homogenous expression, which is ascribed to stable association with nuclear attachment sites.
