Sentence examples for proved a dead end from inspiring English sources

The most highly trumpeted breakthrough in the hunt for anthrax terrorists -- Tom Ridge's announcement that "the site where the letters were mailed" had been found in New Jersey -- proved a dead end.

Though his mathematization of the mind proved a dead end, it encouraged early experimentalists like Fechner to apply mathematics to the psyche.

One clue about what may have happened proved a dead end when investigators revealed Tuesday that two passengers traveling on stolen passports were young Iranian men who probably were trying to immigrate to Europe and had no known links to terrorist organizations.

Experience, like nastiness, may also prove a dead end in the year ahead.

It could prove a dead end, of course, but at least it offers new hope in an otherwise difficult landscape.

In a recent interview, President Kim of South Korea said Pyongyang had three options before it: war, which would end disastrously for it; the status quo, which he said has already proven a dead end, and evolutionary change.

A private universe, they suggest, will ultimately prove a dead-end for innovation — and possibly for tech-sector jobs as well.

But with a few exceptions, teaching animals human language has proved to be a dead end.

Rodney Hilton's attempts to tie peasant uprisings to the eruption of a new mode of production proved to be a dead end.

I asked you to do that, but it proved to be a dead end.

The phone number proved to be a dead end -- there was no area code and when investigators called variations of the number, they were unable to find anyone with "any connection" to the note, Jones said.