After that move, many officials and political leaders had clung to the prospect that a cut in the central bank's discount rate would prove a cure-all.

This short cut often proves to be very effective in a hotly contested match.

Connecticut's transportation officials, however, said the cuts would go entirely unnoticed, and thus prove that the increase was unnecessary.

Is he aware that such cuts in academic research will prove to be economic short termism with vengeance?

Hunt's cut proved a much greater success, and he was awarded the director's chair on the next film as a result.

The cuts they chose proved that the Democrats had been right on target in their criticism of the contract during the campaign.

In fact, the Mayor's cuts at the Board of Education could prove the most controversial.

But the cuts have proved far deeper than Congress intended.

The main obstacle involved running the line through the Matapedia River valley where deep cuts would prove to be a problem for years during the winter months.

"The first cut of data that firms have provided to us has proved inconclusive," he said.