Why should they change systems that proved so resilient?

The G 20 showed its effectiveness in responding to the crisis that erupted in 2008.

Regrettably, it is far from clear that it has changed its thinking and models, which failed to maintain the economy on an even keel before and are certain to fail again.

In Germany, the post 2000 reforms that reset the economy s productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness have proved crucial to the country s current economic strength and resilience.

But America s strategy has failed.

Such activities have proven to be successful.

In the years since it regained its independence, Ukraine has proved that it can play an important and constructive role in the region.

Chidambaram's 2004 2005 budget puts those fears to rest.

For example, the financial crisis that began in 2008 demonstrated the need for adequate regulation.

July s terrorist attacks in London demonstrated both the strength and the weakness of the concept.

Sadly, his prediction proved correct.

The US cannot continue with the failed policies of the past half century.

Suspicions that these sites could be involved in enrichment activities proved to be well founded.

Then comes the Georgian government, which has demonstrated its immaturity, if not irresponsibility.

The facts have shown the opposite to be true.

Events are showing that to be so.

Recent events have made clear that someone needs to anticipate and warn of risks to global financial stability.

The benefits of internationalization for increasing enterprise competitiveness are demonstrated by the evidence in UNCTAD's country case studies.

Vietnam proved to be the end not the beginning of the line.

By and large, that prediction has proven to be correct.

Even the experiment with electronic voting machines was a qualified success.

The crisis proved that this was inadequate.

But recovering the billions of dollars stolen by corrupt leaders and officials in the developing world has so far proved to be a lengthy process.

In their eyes, the tumult of 1989 proved that reform and opening were leading to chaos and collapse.

The contact network, currently operating in about 40 countries, had proved to be effective in cases involving computer related crime.

Two decades later, these efforts have proven to be a spectacular success.

The last few years demonstrate that neither approach will work.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

The UN process worked. It was US policy that failed.

It has shown that it can defeat Georgia s army.

Only Einstein's theory proved to be consistent with experiments and observations.

That has proved very beneficial and will be continued.

Interestingly, one ethical issue on which neither candidate has campaigned has been shown to have the potential to move voters.

When Bank research showed that conditionality did not work, the Bank under Wolfensohn moved away from it.

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war. The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.

But huge damage was done in 2001, when then Prime Minister John Howard s government refused to allow the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 438 rescued Afghans from a distressed fishing vessel, to enter Australian waters.

Brazil has demonstrated the ability to be a technological export power.

Repeated studies have shown that well designed buildings are more comfortable.

These experiments clearly proved that the telephone could work over long distances.

Both the aircraft and the squadron proved adept at low level attacks.

The recent social unrest in Greece, Latvia, and Lithuania has shown that political stability is now vulnerable even in the European Union.

The four decades since The Limits of Growth have shown that we need more of it, not less.

Let me stress that our fourth courtroom, funded by voluntary contributions, has proven to be absolutely vital in order to ensure progress.

The crime prevention instruments have proved useful in feeding discussion about general standards developed in other parts of the United Nations system.

The annual meetings of the Consultative Process have proved to be helpful in expanding the international community's knowledge and awareness of emerging issues affecting the world's oceans.