Word: proving
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Trying to redefine the parent-child relationship now that the child is away from home can prove difficult for many parents. In an attempt to remain close to their children, Nosey Parents think that they need to become best friends. They may ask unrelenting personal questions or try to behave younger; they may even press for intimate details about their child's life on campus...
Hopefully, the home pool will prove an advantage, and Harvard will turn the tide in its favor and add to its win column...
...question remains the future of Sonia Gandhi: Her reluctant entry into politics is credited with saving Congress from being totally routed at the polls, and although she has thus far refused to be prime minister, her undisputed popular appeal may prove too tempting for Congress?s jaded leaders to bypass. Besides, Rajiv?s widow may have a natural flair for India?s unstable coalition politics -- after all, she hails from Italy, which has had 55 governments since...
Some student groups rely on their ownmembership for financing. Student group leaderssay this can prove difficult for students onfinancial...
...recent years than Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut's claim that he and his colleagues had cloned a sheep named Dolly from a mammary cell of a pregnant ewe. More than a year later, nobody has managed to reproduce the Dolly experiment, and Wilmut is under growing pressure to prove that his famous sheep is what he says she is. Last week at a genetics meeting at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, he blandly conceded that there was a "remote possibility" that there could have been a mix-up--that Dolly could turn out to be the clone...