But I haven't been able to substantiate this connection: the nearest proof-by-association being the fact that the first translator of Fournier's novel was Harry Crosby, the millionaire expatriate who moved in the same Parisian circles as Fitzgerald.
The near textbook proof of that is the very case that the California Supreme Court ruled on in the officer disclosure case.
Near proof that iron blockheads, like buses, always come in threes.
It is very, very hard to prove a negative, but the fact that the tabloids have never come up with a scintilla of evidence against Jimmy Savile is as near proof as you can ever get".
Authentic, self-aware emotion — feeling that doesn't call itself "theory" or "wisdom" — becomes a kind of standard-bearer, with "impressions" or "sensations" the nearest you get to solid proof.
It may drive you to reach for the nearest bottle of something high-proof, or an antidepressant so powerful it'd make you burble "I'm cool with this, bro!" in the face of imminent nuclear Armageddon.
Head circumference, as a proxy for brain size, was measured to the nearest 0.1 cm with a stretch-proof measuring tape (Model CTM08l Chasmors Ltd) around the maximum circumference of the head (forehead to occiput).
Furthermore, the legal ambiguity of regulating different chemicals under four statutes with different regulatory standards and fragmentary, incomplete statutory authority guarantees further difficulty with regulation, even if the science could meet the near-impossible burden of proof.
Maybe even pummeled him, considering the Democrats' not-so-secret strategy to define Mr. Kean, nice young man that he is, as an inexperienced trust-fund baby beholden to President Bush as well as his ancestors, and positioned to pad the Republicans' near-filibuster-proof advantage in the Senate.
ANYONE wanting further proof that the world economy is in trouble need look no further than the nearest business school.
With the fail-proof logic of the desperate, I resolved to enclose all three of us in the nearest bathroom.
