Sentence examples for prove a gift from inspiring English sources

News of the 1988 photograph – and the relative ease with which it can be seen – could prove a gift for Mr Cameron's opponents, providing ammunition for their arguments that the Prime Minister is out of touch and too close to his wealthy friends.

The Kochs' involvement may prove a gift to reform advocates, however.

Under different conditions, I'd guess that, if he does announce, Biden has almost no shot at winning the Democratic primary, and that his candidacy could prove a gift to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It is proving a gift to Ms Gillard's opponents.

MC, Braco, Perthshire Ebay's efforts to lure buyers with its no quibbles protection has proved a gift for scoundrels – my postbag sags with grief from sellers.

The Jam squeezed in six albums between 1977 and 82, which has proved a gift to compilers: this is at least their fifth box set.

The increasing popularity of self-help and life-coaching have proved a gift to comedians in recent years, perhaps because, like politicians, self-help gurus can so often sound like parodies already.

She had always wanted to be a writer (as a child, she says, she wanted to be poet laureate and even scoped out Westminster Abbey for a possible final resting place), and writing about her predicament proved "a gift to myself, a reminder that I could create, even as my body tried to self-destruct".

After 30 movies, mostly B-pictures, she became a minor star in Howard Hawks's classic Only Angels Have Wings (1940), then a major star a year later in Mamoulian's Blood and Sand, where she proved a gift to Technicolor as the Spanish socialite who leads matador Tyrone Power astray.

The age of the suspects - nine being over 50 and three old enough to claim a pension - proves a gift for sub editors.

If his 13th goal of the season is to prove a parting gift to supporters who gave him vocal backing, it was a fitting farewell.