Sentence examples for cops proved from inspiring English sources

Once the cops proved to him what Lime's bad penicillin had done to those sick children, Cotten had to help capture his friend.

Before long, tyres have been slashed, cops proved useless, a creepy shrine revealed in someone's basement and once passive, middle-class types have got in touch with their primal vigilantes in a fabulously melodramatic finale.

At no point does this episode of Scandal allude to this being a perfect world – that a black boy is killed by a cop who hates that black boys are taught to fear the cops proves that – but it does call for a better world.

You can show it to the cops and prove that the guy attacked me first!

In fact, as Jess Zimmerman writes for the New Republic, "white women's safety has long been used as an excuse and a vehicle for oppression," and cops are proven to treat groups where the majority of people are white women (i.e. the Women's March) much differently than groups where the majority is people of color (i.e. a Black Lives Matter demonstration).

Breaking away from the protective mass of cops and antifascists proved to be a bad plan.

(John McClane in "Die Hard" is the arguable exception, though as a workaday cop, he proves to have a disbelief-suspending amount of lethal expertise).

Reaching an agreement won't be easy, as past negotiations at COP have proven, and sticking to it may prove even harder.

All in all, the so-called "cops off campus" demonstration proved successful in its aim: visible policing was kept to a minimum and campus, not to mention the busy streets of the capital, were reclaimed at least temporarily.

In his case, he began as a technical consultant on a cop show and eventually proved to his bosses that he could write the scripts.

Caroline is on the run from crooked cops but also proves a deft bartender, one of the big draws of their social club.