Sentence examples for proved central from inspiring English sources

Her first major policy speech, on Monday in Buffalo, was aimed directly at the issues that have proved central in upstate contests: deregulating utilities, lowering in-state air fares and creating jobs by investing in broadband Internet lines.

In the most recent Spanish and German elections, opposing Mr. Bush's policies proved central to both the upset victory of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the re-election of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, respectively.

In an interview on Friday, Mr. McLaughlin said that agency officials had always been candid with the commission, and that information from the C.I.A. proved central to their work.

Godard has no children of his own — indeed, he has said that making children and making films are mutually exclusive — but children, real or symbolic, have proved central to his later work.

Their careers proved central to those of surrounding singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne, Karla Bonoff, and Warren Zevon, whose simultaneous countryesque confessions creatively fed both the band and the singer.

If Mrs. Thomas were involved as a party in the litigation about the health law, or the litigation's outcome proved central to her professional life, those classic conflicts would require him to recuse himself.

Harry Redknapp must rue his inability to sign a proven central defender in January.

The aviation and shipping sectors could prove central to this funding effort.

Already, Eastwood brings out a theme that would prove central throughout his career: the civic importance of a public image and the responsibility that comes with it.

Mr. Vinas's testimony is expected to prove central in the trial of six people in Belgium accused of plotting terror attacks in that nation.

The dinner was also the first time that the six likely Democratic presidential contenders for 2004 shared a stage, and underlined the extent to which Democrats think abortion rights could prove central in that race.