1.   Some entrepreneurs started their businesses at least in part to prove themselves to former bosses who had rejected or doubted them.

2.   On the other hand, I had to prove it to my own satisfaction and I hailed a cab to the next corner.

3.   Also, because Netanyahu refuses to acknowledge that Likud ideology is defunct and needs redefinition, he tries to prove himself to his party faithful in other ways.

4.   Alvarado let his players prove themselves to each other, then let them come together as a group, reserves pulling for starters and vice versa.

5.   Arizona cornerback Chris McAlister sees the Holiday Bowl game against Nebraska on Wednesday as an important stage on which to further prove himself to NFL scouts.

6.   As president, the officials said, Samper would have to prove himself to doubters in the administration and Congress by relentlessly pursuing the Cali cartel and other traffickers.

7.   As in years past, those people who said they had theater tickets or dinner reservations had to prove it to police officers.

8.   As it turns out, she got to prove it to him during their very first scene together because it involved kissing.

9.   After numerous bit roles and big-screen performances, Freddie Prinze Jr. has proven himself to hordes of moviegoers.

10.   Both may be trying to maneuver a political game out of a tragedy that has embarrassed for a government trying to prove itself to the world.