He arranged the "purchase" of Eliza Armstrong, the 13-year-old daughter of a chimney sweep, whom he then smuggled away to France in order to prove how easy it might have been to carry off a real abduction.
While Facebook has impressive metrics, Facebook has yet to prove how it can transform itself into a platform or infrastructure beyond a tool to connect friends with each other.
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Going into its second earnings release as a publicly traded company, Facebook has been under heavy pressure to prove how it will squeeze dollars out of its billion users.
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In my opinion, the gaming industry should use opportunities like the Cannes Lions to showcase to the industry best practices, it should hold workshops for creatives on how to create games and it should help fund research to prove that creating games as a media platform is more effective than traditional.
My problem with being able to prove that is, well, how would you prove it?
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Tory MPs point to next month's Queen's speech: how he performs in his response to it may prove to be a decisive "tipping point" as to whether he can stave off the speculation about his position.
He claimed he did it to prove how unreliable social media is for getting accurate news.
Netflix (NFLX) has a lot to prove in 2012, specifically how successful it can be in the U.K. and Ireland.
Although I certainly think this young company has much to prove, I nevertheless appreciate how it is steering away from farm bets on swing-for-the-fences patent lawsuits like most of its competitors.
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So as Estonia prepares to celebrate its coming of age this August, when it will mark 21 years since the end of the Soviet occupation, the country can look back at how far it has come, but face the future knowing that it has a lot still to prove.
Harvest has recently made a large refinery acquisition, and it has yet to prove how smart that was.
Legal experts say the issue is rarely pursued partly because it is difficult to prove how overlapping directors impinge on business decisions.
But it's tougher to prove a positive--to predict from a molecule's vibrational structure exactly how it will smell--and he struggled to concoct an experiment that would satisfy his scientific and industrial peers.
But it's tougher to prove a positive--to predict from a molecule's vibrational structure exactly how it will smell--and Turin struggled to concoct an experiment that would satisfy his scientific and industrial colleagues.
The question hanging over all this is: How possible will it prove for other start-ups to replicate this miracle?
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Still, it was pretty easy to see how this might prove useful in daily life.
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How do you prove to people that we landed on the moon and that it was not an event staged in a Hollywood studio?
Obama's basic belief that Israel's strength and size are to blame for all the violence and radicalism in the Arab world is not subject to change regardless of how clearly and continuously events on the ground prove it wrong.
Perhaps, but in seeking international help from countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland it would be wise to recognise how deep the hole may prove to be.
Given that the allegations stretch back more than half a century, if the discovery motion is granted, it will be interesting to see how both sides attempt to prove the veracity of their version of history.
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Given how much cancer already exists in the world, it would be very difficult to prove that anyone's cancer was caused by the incident at Fukushima Daiichi.
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It leaves open several possibilities for how new hires would be required to prove they can legally work.
It is hard to know just how expensive a mandatory GMO-labeling law could prove for California households.
However, it remains to be seen how costly the concession of those two late games will prove for the Swede.
Playing it safe buys you more time to prove your market, identify your most profitable customers and how to find them, and ensure you are generating profit on (most?) transactions.
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