Word: proved
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Even Giscard got something from the Paris Summit. The leaders agreed to adopt his proposals for basic institutional changes in the Community, which may eventually prove even more important than a decision by Britain to remain. Giscard received approval for a majority vote on most Community decisions. Until now, each country has been able to exercise veto power on even the most trivial matters; in the future, it will have the veto only on issues affecting its vital interests...
...part of the reason for the turn away from glamorous globetrotting. So is the growing shortage of primitive peoples, many of them now part of politically touchy developing nations which have set severe restrictions on visiting anthropologists. These days a candidate had better have outstanding credentials, the ability to prove he is not with the CIA, eagerness to share his findings with the host country and a total absence of subtle colonial attitudes. Even at home, the growing militance of American Indians is making traditional tribal research by white scholars more difficult...
Isorni first gained notoriety in France following World War II when he unsuccessfully defended collaborationist Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France during the Nazi occupation, against charges of treason. In The True Trial of Jesus, Isorni set out to prove the innocence of the Jewish people. Isorni's thesis is similar to that of Jewish Historian Haim Cohn, author of The Trial and Death of Jesus, and Anglican Scholar S.G.F. Brandon, who wrote The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth. They argue that Jesus was condemned to die not because a Jewish tribunal objected...
Much is lost in translation. Even so, these books amply prove that 50 million Frenchmen can't be wrong...
...shabby series of visions ripped off Carlos Castaneda) to a My Lai-style slaughter in which, of course, Billy Jack refused to participate. Shoddily as they are staged, Billy Jack's fights are the only portions of the film with the slightest life at all. These episodes prove it is a great deal easier to feel peaceful and full of good will when someone else is busting heads and scrambling brains...