It has shown that it can defeat Georgia s army.

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.

These programs have been shown to increase enrollment and attendance.

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

The United Nations clearly proved its ability to play a leadership role and to mobilize international support in the early phase of the tsunami.

Eurozone governments have proven unwilling, or unable, to produce a solution that persuades markets that they are on top of the problem.

However, being radical does not necessarily mean being irrational, and revolutionary Iran has given frequent proof of its pragmatism.

Under 60 patients are becoming more important as newer artificial joints prove their capacity to withstand more active lifestyles.

The troika has proved functional, and Europe would have been at pains to provide conditional assistance to eurozone countries without the IMF s participation and support.

The proliferation of nuclear weapons in a region that has seen fit to use weapons of mass destruction before threatens everyone.

Space data has proved its potential to provide vital information inputs to all phases of the disaster cycle, covering preparedness, mitigation, response and reconstruction.

Since Marine Le Pen took the helm, she has proven herself able to combine the National Front s trademark anti immigration stance, the hard core of its ideology, with praise for the state and the Republic.

Also in the 1990 s, largely thanks to the leadership of then President Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico adopted non partisan federal electoral institutions that in 2006 proved able to resolve successfully a disputed election.

The MDGs have proved instrumental in galvanizing political will and focusing financial resources on a limited set of basic needs in low and middle income countries.

By contrast, opposition by US states whose economies rely significantly on coal production proved decisive for the fate of Obama s climate change bill.

This will require considerable restructuring of their economies, but China and India are both dynamic, and proved their resilience in their response to the Great Recession.

But America s strategy has failed.

Such activities have proven to be successful.

Sadly, his prediction proved correct.

Now incapable of intimidating anyone, Britain has opted for developing its potential to inspire.

The facts have shown the opposite to be true.

Events are showing that to be so.

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.

(iv) enhancing their capacity to manufacture such equipment

As a result, Russia has lost its access to cheap Central Asian gas, as well as to the Chinese market.

The international community must recognize that the Middle East security equation is not a simple linear one involving Israel versus the Arab world. The proliferation of nuclear weapons in a region that has seen fit to use weapons of mass destruction before threatens everyone.

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.

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

That has proved very beneficial and will be continued.

This significantly increases their potential to generate electricity.

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.

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.

In the face of a number of crises and bitter and often unjust criticism, the Department strengthened its media monitoring and reinforced its media response capacity.

People's attention span after 18 minutes begins to drop off, tests have shown.

Finally, America s global hegemony has proven to be a curse as well as a blessing.

As a long term strategy, energy embargoes have always proven to be futile. Saudi Arabia saw its share of world oil exports drop sharply in the 12 years after the 1973 1974 embargo.