But with the electorate in its present bizarre, unpredictable mood, Ms O'Donnell may yet prove them wrong.

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I'm here not to prove them wrong, but to show who I am and what I'm really about.

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So who better than a high-powered social scientist who also happens to be a Roman Catholic to prove them wrong?

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Use your haters as motivation to work harder to prove them wrong.

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"I wanted to finish it just to prove them wrong, " he said.

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When somebody told me that I couldn't do something or be something, that just gave me a greater challenge to prove them wrong.

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Mr Shigeta still has much to do to prove them wrong.

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Now once again, it's our job to prove them wrong.

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In the midst of the constant drumbeat of naysayers who would have us believe that government intervention in health care destroys competition, along comes Wal-Mart to prove them wrong.

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He was rejected by the Austrian ski team as a teenager but was determined to prove them wrong and came from nowhere to perform well at the 1995 National Championships in Ellmau.

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But Mitchell insists he can prove them wrong.

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But for some people the wrong office culture can prove truly onerous or even cost them the job.

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