When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

It proved to be the tipping point, triggering waves of protests by lawyers and other groups in Pakistan s main cities.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Okay, you get my point, right?

My fourth point concerns the review.

My third point relates to security.

Okay, you get my point, right? (Laughter)

I turn now to my second point.

That leads me to my final point.

So, I come back to my initial point.

My first point concerns the responsibility to protect.

My second point concerns our commitment to justice.

It was the turning point of my life, and it has led me to this present point.

My second point concerns the size of the Council.

In my view, this is the most fundamental point.

My point is that we have to be realistic.

That leads me to my final point, on funding.

I would like to offer my own five point proposal.

My third point relates to the use of the veto.

My last point has to do with the Council's working methods.

My second point concerns the involvement of national and local actors.

My third point concerns the need for partnerships with specialized institutions.

That was my only point, and it was not peculiar to Pakistan.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

That was the starting point, or presupposition, of my statement today and also a motive for my coming here.

That proved decisive.

I don't want to get into that, you know that's not my point.

My sometime co author Carmen Reinhart makes the same point, perhaps even more clearly.

Russia s calculations proved correct.

My first point is in the form of a question to the General Assembly, and it is included in my statement.

This brings me to my third point we must reconceptualize the meaning of market risk.

But, in the end, ordinary Germans have been proved right, and the elites have been proved wrong.

That hope soon proved illusory.

Sadly, his prediction proved correct.

So I think the point the point of my talk, and I think the point of TED is that this is a group that is passionately engaged in the pursuit of changing the world for the better.

My point is this In the long run, some news stories are more important than others.

From my professional vantage point, I sense a mounting risk of collateral damage and unintended consequences.

Elsewhere, change proved far more complicated.

China s victory proved to be Pyrrhic.

The aid skeptics were proved wrong.

Kennedy had proved a powerful truth.

But appearances proved to be deceptive.

This assessment proved to be correct.

My last point is that crises, while unpleasant, are also widely thought to facilitate growth enhancing reforms.

I want to point out here at this point that I've spent my life obsessed by objects and the stories that they tell, and this was the very latest one.