Sentence examples for break to prove from inspiring English sources
The prime minister believes in marriage, and he wants to introduce a married couples' tax break to prove it.
Cities queue up, without a break, to prove that their visions, downhill ski-course plans, stadium designs, athlete villages, cultures and histories are worthy in the competition to be host to a Summer or Winter Games.
Welch first detailed big trouble in the company's appliance business and then said he needed "a young talent, an outside set of eyes … somebody who's got the passion". Immelt accepted a three-year post in that division, a job that he called "brutal" and "tough". But it was also his break to prove himself able to successfully handle a huge role.
The Clippers will have ample opportunities in the lead-up to the All-Star break to prove whether their "swag" can be sustained.
One of the fall's biggest hits roared back from its holiday break to prove it's not all about seeing James Spader's Red, former rogue operative turned asset, drop clues, bon mots and bad guys.
Now, however, the Spitzer administration — in particular, the powerful Empire State Development Corporation — has asked 3,000 of the 9,700 companies getting these tax breaks to prove that they've earned them.
Kydd missed the conversion and more crucial misses after the break were to prove ultimately costly.
This was conceived as a "make or break" effort to prove the worth or otherwise of the Beaufort as a torpedo bomber, in which role it had so far been a disappointment; in what the official history of the RAAF in World War II described as "an heroic attack", at least one enemy tanker was struck, for the loss of one Beaufort.
Pitchers got five fastballs and three breaking balls to prove themselves.
Where every wonder play came off against England, here enough broke down to prove horribly costly by half-time.
Kannaki comes running to the city and shows the king her other anklet, breaks it to prove it is not the queen's Kannaki's contains rubies, and the queen's contains pearls and thus proves Kovalan's innocence.
