Sentence examples for at first prove from inspiring English sources

He knew that in practice this would be a very difficult thing to do: "Operational thinking will at first prove to be an unsocial virtue; one will find oneself perpetually unable to understand the simplest conversation of one's friends, and will make oneself universally unpopular by demanding the meaning of apparently the simplest terms of every argument".

Challenges are positive, and though they may seem disturbing at first, prove to be the essence of why we are here on the planet.

There is not a chemical entity that failed human clinical trials that did not at first prove efficacious and safe in animals: All animals - rats, rabbits, dogs, pigs, not just the oft-mentioned mouse.

Richard Cox, though sounding nasal at first, proved a powerful Oedipus.

As prime minister, Raffarin at first proved to be a pragmatic number two to Chirac.

Interest in the Orient at first proved greater, however, and, in 1600, London merchants formed an East India Company.

But the film also serves as a portrait of a strong personality who at first proved quite frustrating for the fledgling filmmaker.

This one, and a coalition government that followed, lasted for five years and, at first, proved remarkably successful, chiefly thanks to a decision by the Fine Gael opposition to support all moves towards fiscal reform.

Campbell's gift for doing it all and doing it well, so valuable as a session musician, at first proved a stumbling block to clarifying a distinctive sound and image of his own.

She dreamed of a stage career, but the boards she trod at first proved to be those of the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company, where she was asked to demonstrate the virtues of an electric kitchen to women hitherto chained to coal-burning ranges or monstrous gas stoves.

Finding a job suited to his interests and expertise at first proved difficult.