Sentence examples for prove like from inspiring English sources

Or will it prove like one of the milder episodes, where the recovery is relatively fast?

Will Mr Bush's $37m prove, like the four-minute mile, to be a benchmark that every contender will have to surpass?

Fish apologized for him, but everyone figured he was just intense, had something to prove, like the kids who'd tried out for the team but missed the last cut.

But Greg Clark, the shadow energy and climate change secretary, said: "The government must decide whether it breaks with the past and implements the policies we all know are needed, or whether the next 12 months will prove, like the last 12 years, to have been a time of opportunity lost.

Cleanthes, the character who advances the design argument in the dialogue, proceeds from the rule for empirical reasoning that like effects prove like causes.

The laws should not criminalize conduct that is inherently hard to prove, like witchcraft; and lawmakers should be cautious when dealing with crimes like sodomy, which are typically not carried out in the presence of several witnesses, lest they "open a very wide door to calumny" (SL 12.6).

But the potential bonanza of the trash has proved, like a gold rush, impossible to manage.

The market house, mostly dating from 1855, has proved, like the local farmers, adaptable to changing times.

If knowledge of them is gained from an independent source they may be proved like anyothers …." 251 U. S., at 392.

This particular debate went on for two hours, proving, like so much of this campaign, that it really is possible to have too much of good thing.

If knowledge of them is gained from an independent source they may be proved like any others, but the knowledge gained by the Government's own wrong cannot be used by it in the way proposed.