Sentence examples for prove less than from inspiring English sources

If the panellists prove less than horrified by the idea, the birth of a new life-form in Maryland may one day be announced.

If the case against him should prove less than solid, the court's credibility and the justification for NATO's bombing campaign in Kosovo will be diminished.

A presidential campaign must have real foundations in ideas, relationships and party support, and I think a Bloomberg candidacy would prove less than successful".

The soprano Veronica Mittenzwei and the mezzo-soprano Lorinda Lisitza bring cultivated voices to their assignments, even though some of their interpretations prove less than convincing.

That may be so at present, when supply of sugar within the EU is plentiful, but the group remains concerned that when stocks tighten, which the group believes they inevitably will, competition will prove less than sufficient.

Should they prove less than congenial -- and in the event only one does, when politics raises its ugly head -- I know that I'll never have to see them again.

Third, it gradually adds more low-skilled immigrants to the voting rolls at a time when trends in the economy and the culture make it harder for them to rise into the middle class — and absent such upward mobility, these voters, too, prove less-than-eager to embrace the party of free markets, limited government and American exceptionalism.

But her questions proved less than penetrating.

Alas, the riposte proved less than devastating.

Montebourg's previous interventions have proven less than successful.

In truth, the whole proved less than the sum of the parts.