Word: proved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sentence ?- mandatory for treason ?- goes automatically to an appeals court, where it is expected to be upheld. Then it?s up to parliament and the president to sign off on the hanging ?- and although Turkey hasn?t executed anyone in 15 years, the clamor for Ocalan?s head may prove irresistible. The brutal Kurdish-nationalist insurgency led by Ocalan and the ferocious Turkish government repression it occasioned has claimed as many as 30,000 lives, all of which the government blames on Ocalan...
...that challenge. All that, of course, is in the long term. Loyalist groups have announced they will defy Monday night?s ban by the British authorities of next Sunday?s annual loyalist march through the Catholic neighborhood of Drumcree, which usually provokes outbreaks of communal violence. Drumcree may yet prove a brutal reminder to Northern Ireland?s politicians of why they needed a peace process in the first place...
...recent conversion or forgive his once calling Pat Robertson a "toothy flake"). She is waiting for Bush to come pray with her, which she expects within the next two weeks, before she makes up her mind. While Bush has so much of the country's attention, will he prove Ford wrong and lead us someplace instead of blowing $60 million on slick ads and a fog machine of road-tested, split-the-difference platitudes? He could lead, not follow, and woo the Christian right by bringing them along, not just kneeling down with them...
...sister. Then a grownup Bubba hugging her when she visited him on Christmas Day at a Florida prison. And finally Bubba shortly before the Commonwealth of Virginia executed him by lethal injection. Knox believes they killed the wrong man. And she knows the state now has the tools to prove whether or not she is right. Says Knox, fighting tears: "I want closure...
...state is forced to permit the DNA test, there is a good chance it will prove O'Dell's guilt. Knox is eager to believe the best about her brother: that a 1975 kidnapping conviction was probably a setup, that his fatal knifing of a fellow inmate was self-defense. But to less loving eyes, O'Dell seems like a man who might well have been capable of killing Schartner. All the more reason, says Knox, that the state should hand over the evidence. "Let's test it and find...