Sentence examples for had proved helpful from inspiring English sources

Mr. Talansky had proved helpful to Mr. Olmert when he was the mayor of Jerusalem by helping start and run the New Jerusalem Foundation, a charity meant to raise money for civic projects in Israel.

But she said there had been a remarkable turnaround in internal industry thinking and many of those demands, which have led for instance to three million consumers changing their supplier this year alone, had proved helpful.

Some sent books that had proved helpful to others, like "The Comfort Book," by Jane Seskin (Tallfellow Press), "Afterwords," by Ellen Steinbaum (Blue Unicorn Press), "A Time to Grieve," by Carol Staudacher (HarperOne), "Solace," by Roberta Temes (Amacom), and "Living When a Loved One Has Died," by Rabbi Earl A. Grollman (Beacon Press).

Locally, i.e., for that particular set of problems, it had proved helpful.

Many of those relationships have proved helpful since.

The iPhone has proved helpful in this quest.

But counseling, communication classes, personal improvement seminars and recovery meetings together have proved helpful to many.

It has proved helpful to journalists seeking interviews with world leaders.

For a lot of us, the diagnosis and subsequent treatments — both behavioral and pharmaceutical — have proved helpful.

Although much of the criticism has waned as the beacons have proved helpful, there have been some false alarms and incidents of careless use.

Even now, as Iran has fomented strife between the Israelis and the Palestinians, it has proved helpful in America's battle against the Taliban.