Sentence examples for have proved false from inspiring English sources

Predictions of mass Taliban defections have proved false.

But alarmist warnings about the dangers of modestly higher debt have proved false.

But previous predictions of Musharraf's demise have proved false, and he can still count on one significant friend.

The alarms have proved false, but so have the hopes.Plans to develop the formerly American-owned canal zone have stalled.

"I'm very happy that the dire predictions that there would be a rollback have proved false," said Angela King, the United Nations official in charge of women's advancement.

Other claims of the battlefield deaths of famous militants have proved false, and positive identification can in some cases take days or weeks.

Loud celebrations have begun in the Libyan capital, although previous reports of the capture of high-level Qaddafi officials have proven false.

Because such a tiny percentage of the hundreds of accusations against priests have proven false over the years, public attitudes have shifted from extreme skepticism toward such claims to widespread acceptance that clerical abuse is a serious problem, said David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Accused by Priests.

At the same time, colleges and universities must take no comfort in the fact that prior predictions of technological disruption have proven false.

But intimations that a new candidate would result after the firing have proven false.

Perhaps long-time presuppositions about the way the world works have proven false.