Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administrators] use their kid gloves on things which really don't affect the administration. They're trying to prove that they're diverse...but in the process, they're forgetting to include everyone," Padilla says. "They forget that someone who's conservative could be oppressed as well...
Making that charge stick would be difficult. Starr would have to show that any White House-organized work for Hubbell was intended not simply to help an old friend but also to buy his silence. Obstruction of justice is hard to prove. But it is one of those things that are both wrong and illegal...
JERUSALEM: Making a visit into Jerusalem, King Hussein personally offered his condolences to the families of the seven schoolgirls killed by a Jordanian soldier last Thursday. Hussein's diplomacy may prove to be more effective at healing feelings than at changing Israeli policy. After a two-hour private meeting with the Jordanian leader, Benjamin Netanyahu announced his government's determination to proceed with construction of a 6,500-unit housing settlement in east Jerusalem. The initial announcement of the settlement plans sparked an angry response from Hussein last week and prompted Yasser Arafat to cut off all communication with Netanyahu...
Shewchuk may gave been able to prove herself to her male teammates, but women's hockey in general has yet to find acceptance and respect in the male-oriented hockey world...
...past masters, and it also contains all the music sung at the evening service called Vespers; music, as Monteverdi says on the title page, suited to the chapels or apartments of princes. Monteverdi is trying to see how far his artistic wings will carry him. These two publications prove his mastery of his art, and the dedication to the Pope suggests his desire for a new job, far away from the problems of being the court musician at Mantua, with all its requirements to provide music for dinners, concerts, dancing, tournaments...