Sentence examples for proved a poor guide from inspiring English sources

This proved a poor guide, as low overheads may mean not thrift but ill-paid (and incompetent) staff.

That proved a poor calculation.

Mr Lindsey, a decent economist, proved a poor back-room co-ordinator.

Returning to school in Amsterdam, Van Dantzig proved a poor scholar, uninterested in most of his schoolwork.

Democratic hopes began to slump, particularly when Mr. Klink proved a poor fund-raiser.

But IBRA's sheepskins proved a poor match for Suharto's cronies.

Neptune proved a poor seakeeper as she was wet, difficult to manoeuvre and a heavy roller.

But the prospect of such encounters must remain low, and, of course, fiction has proved a very poor guide to scientific reality, as the story of the island of Flores has so starkly demonstrated.

As the climate changes, recent hydrological data may be a poor guide to future drought, and planned actions may prove insufficient to maintain adequate water supplies.

History is a poor guide.

But headlines are a poor guide to history.