Sentence examples for example have proven from inspiring English sources

Sub-Saharan African startups, for example, have proven themselves particularly skilled at innovating with low-cost mobile applications, rather than capital-intensive, high-broadband web applications.

Previous programmes to demobilise troops following the civil war with Sudan – by offering short-term vocational training, for example – have proved largely ineffective, raising questions about how such programmes should be structured and, crucially, who would fund them.

Cellphones, for example, have proved a boon for fishermen on Lake Victoria.

The acidification of oceans, for example, has proven damaging for most marine life save jellyfish, which may also be reaping rewards from what humans have sown.

If Brazil, for example, has proven itself to have a memory span of at least 64 years when it comes to footballing pain, the USA's equivalent would probably be a two-minute micro-sulk of mild disappointment.

Yet it is hard to think of a country in which Europe's money, or the power of its example, has proven transformative without there being an offer of membership, however remote.

Exxon Mobil, for example, has proven reserves 21% less than what was reported in 2007.

Pulling off demos at Photo Hack Day and Photo Hack Day 2, for example, has proven to be a continuous learning process, with a much more public (and much less forgiving) learning curve.

Unlike Iceland or the UK where the setting up of large biobanks have spurred major public and professional debates, the Finnish example has proven quite the contrary where there has been very little or no public discussion related to the transfer of diagnostic samples or legacy collections into the new biobanking framework.

The risk of the most common subtype of breast cancer, ER positive, for example, has proven to be lower among women who've had a full-term pregnancy and have breast-fed.

Text messaging for confirmation of appointments, for example, has proven to be effective with younger participants (22).