Sentence examples for had proved only from inspiring English sources

A 2011 report on crime in the city, prepared by university researchers with support from the Justice Department, expressed frustration that conventional prevention tactics had proved only so effective.

To date, the possibility to treat patients with inoperable recurrent rectal cancer with radiation as a second course of radiotherapy had proven only modest effectivity, with a potential risk of treatment-related side effects [ 14, 15, 25, 26].

Others have proved only short-term palliatives.

Iran has proved only slightly less frustrating for Mr. Bush.

So far, though, even while spending $265 billion a year on family subsidies, Germany has proved only how hard it can be.

So far, Favre has proved only that he was right about wanting to go to the Vikings.

The 64-year-old's insistence that passing into submission is the way forward has proved only a sideways move.

And yet when it comes to women, golf has proved only slightly more tolerant than most organized religions have been about admitting female clergy.

Although the newspaper's reviews are seen as deal-breakers for Broadway, its write-up has proved only part of a roar of critical acclaim for the show.

"Thematically no less awesome than Mr Kneale's earlier science-fiction essays for BBC Television, his ITV debut has proved only a so-so affair," was the verdict of The Times when previewing the final episode.

Regulation, he said, has "proven only partially successful in dissuading individuals from playing with the rules of accounting".