The crisis proved that this was inadequate.

Such activities have proven to be successful.

Past tragedies have shown that the world's attention span is, unfortunately, relatively short.

Material evidence had later proved that those confessions had been based on false testimony.

That has proved very beneficial and will be continued.

The Organization had the means to enforce its resolutions, as it had demonstrated on other occasions.

Non governmental organizations had shown themselves to be useful in helping CEDAW to be more effective.

The studies have validated the ECW measures and identified numerous good practices.

Experience has shown that it is of little use to involve them only at the final stages where there is very little room for compromise.

These meetings have proven a rich breeding ground for ideas and collaborations across borders.

Evidence showed that persons knowingly enter into common law relationships by choice and as a result do not wish to be submitted to the marital regime and the obligations that flow from it.

Sadly, his prediction proved correct.

The facts have shown the opposite to be true.

Events are showing that to be so.

Subsequent experience had shown that very few instances existed where staff resources were surplus to all subprogrammes within a particular programme and were therefore available for redeployment to another programme.

India s Supreme Court has shown that it is independent, interprets the law faithfully, and does not easily succumb to global corporate interests.

The Assembly of Kosovo has lately shown itself to be a more transparent and democratic place for debate according to the established rules.

The seminar of governmental experts which was held in Bonn, Germany, in May 2005 had shown that it was possible to maintain a creative and open dialogue about the future.

These efforts proved successful a standard was complete by 1974, and was approved, on September 15, 1977, as ANSI standard, X11.1 1977.

It may not be good economics, but the strategy proved to be good politics, for a time.

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

The United Nations, along with several key international partners, has developed a set of practices over the years that have proved to be effective.

Israel is engaging in a serious effort to renew the peace process, and has proved ready to live up to its own obligations, but it expects the Palestinian leadership to be more active in fully eradicating terrorist activity.

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

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

We must recognize that democracy has proved its worth around the world.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable.

But experience has proven that this approach leads nowhere.

But the campaign is also proving the resilience of classical politics.

But events and economic research since the crisis have demonstrated three things.

The example of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) has proven that there is a growing need for immediate access to public information in all peacekeeping missions.

Such procedures have proved to be arbitrary and capricious, with no systemic way to reconcile incompatible rulings issued by different panels.

Instead, the war showed its limitations.

The first days of the conflict in Georgia crushed this hypothesis.

Events have shown that this policy leads to an escalation of violence.

We are not weak, Mona, and the Arab revolutions have proved to us that we are stronger than we thought, and the heroines of the Arab revolutions don t need to be pointed out.

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

But America s strategy has failed.

This year s World Cup has proven once again that football is the world s most popular sport it has also proven that football is probably the world s most globalized profession.

Unfortunately, Dubai ultimately proved subject to the laws of financial gravity.

Yet, time and again, the UN has shown itself to be incompetent in this role.

Big Show proved this with additional video footage, and claimed to be the rightful winner.

This terrible tragedy has shown how greatly the world can act in such circumstances.

Those endeavours demonstrated the collective resolve of the international community to begin the millennium with a fresh approach to global interactions and the determination to build a better tomorrow for future generations.

Illicit networks supplying WMD related materials and technologies have proved to pose a far greater threat than we ever expected before.