6 sentences with 'proof'
Example sentences and phrases with the word proof and other words derived from it.
• « That began to change when the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE. Many of the Hebrews saw this disaster as proof of the corruption of the rich and powerful and the righteousness of the Prophetic Movement. »
• « In 726, a volcano devastated the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. Leo III took this as proof that the veneration of icons had gone too far, as some of his religious advisors had told him. »
• « Unfortunately, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, in discovering bacteria, did not deduce that they were responsible for disease; it would not be until the 1860s with the French physician and scientist Louis Pasteur that definitive proof of the link between germs and disease was established. »
• « Many Europeans regarded Darwinian theory as proof of progress: nature itself ensured that the human species would improve over time. »
• « In retrospect, European technological dominance was nothing more or less than a historical accident, the circumstantial development of tools and techniques that originated with the Industrial Revolution. However, at the time, most Europeans and Americans regarded their technology as proof of their "racial" and cultural superiority. »