Chávez's partisans insist that he is recovering, and that he even signed a document — a proof of life that was duly exhibited to the press.
'These are the symbols - remarked your great predecessor - which mark and measure the stored-up strength of a nation, and are a sign and proof of the living virtue in it.' This 'stored-up strength' is what you are ignoring and harming in these laws.
For that to be the case, the skeptics argue, it would have to be conclusively revealed by a sign or proof.
Jacob ben Asher (14th century) suggests that "tefillin" is derived from the Hebrew pelilah, "justice, evidence," for tefillin act as a sign and proof of God's presence among the Jewish people.
Humor is a crucial form of imagination, and the lack of it is a sign — but not proof — of a failure of imagination.
The phrase was used to whack Obama; it was seen by many, conservatives in particular, as a sign of weakness, proof that Obama was a "declinist," etc.
Several municipalities named in the lawsuit have imprisoned the lead plaintiff, Quinton Thomas, a 28-year old factory worker, in connection with minor driving-related offenses like running a stop sign, lacking proof of insurance, and improper vehicle registration.
Such physical affection between women is not ordinarily interpreted as a sure sign or proof of lesbian love... [However after being] exposed to this controversy, women will learn to view all such signs of affection through the prism of homosexuality.
The daily marches may appear to be a sign of a vibrant democracy, proof of a wealth of ideals and opportunities to express them.
It is a horrific economic sign; proof that commerce is literally stopped".
