Sentence examples for prospect proved from inspiring English sources

That prospect proved too much even for Nigeria's pliable political elite.

While almost 40m people had dropped out of the jobs market altogether as job prospects proved unattainable.

One of the weekend's brightest prospects proved to be "Milk," about Harvey Milk, the gay-rights advocate murdered in San Francisco in 1978.

Will his firm's optimistic view of its prospects prove to be far-sighted, or rose-tinted?

This prospect has proved false as it disregarded the environmental damage caused elsewhere by the diversion of water for desert project irrigation.

No longer a dubious prospect, switchgrass proved its economic worth in the first large-scale field trial of the crop, published in the 15 January 2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The industry's standard measure of a firm's commercial prospects is proved plus "probable" (known hydrocarbons likely to get to market over time).

At times, he displayed a swaggering optimism about Mr. Bush's prospects that proved entirely unwarranted; just days before Nov. 7, he was predicting that Mr. Bush might get 320 electoral votes.

Mr. Reeser and Gail Lawrence, the current president of the West Texas campuses, attributed much of the enrollment decline to the recent elimination of programs including digital media, which was popular among students but unlikely to get them a job in the area, and agricultural technology, which promised good job prospects but proved less popular.

However, Grant's doubts concerning the ongoing series's prospects eventually proved correct.

And there seems little prospect of proving that.