Sentence examples for proved at once from inspiring English sources

Yet, like more recent mega-corporations, the EIC proved at once hugely powerful and oddly vulnerable to economic uncertainty.

Yesterday, on a morning that proved at once painful and uplifting, downtown workers streamed into the heart of the former World Trade Center site for its first rush hour since the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

Yardbirds' biographer Gregg Russo describes the song "a quantum leap in their development ... [it] proved at once progressive and commercial the perfect marriage of socially conscious lyrics and a driving rhythm".

His character on this journey is satisfyingly complex; here is a young man who proves at once compassionately ­idealistic and unapologetically self-­serving.

This proves (4.1) at once for the case of p = q = 2n/(n - 2).

Is there a single activity that has proved to be, at once, more strenuous than walking while building power like the squat?

McEwen proved himself once before at GoldCorp, a Canadian outfit.

While there is justification for concern over Álvaro Morata's beige performance, he has proven at club level more than once he is capable of producing on the big occasion.

Woods proved once again at Muirfield that he is lacking the mental edge that enabled him to dominate at major championships.

Desargues saw that he could prove them all at once and, moreover, by treating a cylinder as a cone with vertex at infinity, demonstrate useful analogies between cylinders and cones.

But we did not foresee the event that would thrust privacy into the news: revelations from Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, about America's mass-surveillance programmes.We failed to predict a military coup in EgyptSome predictions can prove to be at once right and wrong.