Word: provee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...classic devices in situation comedy—and some tragedy—is for a character’s solution to a simple problem to prove worse than the problem itself. Rather than accept the consequences of a mistake, the hero comes up with a solution that makes things worse, until things escalate into a climax either with hilarious consequences, or catastrophe, depending on the genre. Either way, it’s becoming a familiar script for this White House, which now routinely embarrasses itself not just by making the wrong choices, but by refusing to face them later...
...know they were undefeated, and no team is undefeated without being pretty tough, but I think we were all pretty focused and determined to win today. We haven’t lost to Yale in a long time, and they were obviously the ones that had something to prove,” said junior co-captain Courtney Bergman...
...government in Afghanistan after the U.S. military had run the Taliban out. Today that government controls the capital city of Kabul and not much else, but make no mistake: success in the places where he works is a relative term. That's why when George W. Bush needed to prove, in the midst of mounting U.S. casualties and spiraling Iraqi impatience, that the U.S. really does have a plan for returning sovereignty to Iraq by June 30, he unmasked a man most Americans had never heard of but in whose diplomatic skills the Administration is staking Iraq's political future...
...tradition of last year’s Mather Lather debacle, this weekend’s Leverett ’80s dance will prove equally disappointing as eager prefrosh flood the party, forcing it to close its doors after half an hour...
Milton said that because airborne transmission is so difficult to prove, he does not expect all scientists to adopt his ideas immediately...