Sentence examples for may prove excessively from inspiring English sources

The Dutch government has said that by next year 30% of executive board positions should be held by women, but that may prove excessively optimistic; the level is currently just 6%, according to Mijntje Luckerath, an academic at Tilburg University, who also blames old-fashioned selection processes.

It is also reasonable to suggest that attempts to undertake frequent intercourse for the duration of the cycle (NICE, 2004) may prove excessively demanding and thus as emotionally challenging as timing intercourse to the fertile period.

It may prove too wonkish.

That may prove too late.

That may prove too pessimistic.

But the medicine may prove too powerful.

This too may prove unsatisfying for conservatives.

That may prove welcome.

This may prove disastrous.

Usage may prove capricious.

He may prove right.