Sentence examples for proved dead from inspiring English sources

Under the Obama doctrine, innocent until proved guilty has mutated to innocent until proved dead.

Although it seemed to cynics early on that Kronos was more about attitude and appearance than about music, such criticism soon proved dead wrong.

Though the movie's producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, has a shrewd eye for mass taste, this one proved dead on arrival at the box office.

ABC's short-lived, long-ago efforts to install either nonwhite or nonmale anchors in the 1970's -- Barbara Walters and Max Robinson -- proved dead ends.

I, for one, thought that the end of the Soviet empire would produce an efflorescence of art in Russia and, so far at least, have been proved dead wrong.

But did anybody think Hitler was still in power?" Still, other members of the administration are clearly concerned that until Mr. Hussein is proved dead, his loyalists will still harass American occupation troops, setting off grenade attacks or car bombs.

And it's a hunch that, for the most part, has been proven dead wrong by real-life robots.

American drones hovering over Pakistan's northern areas are programmed to work with the same logic: guilty until proven dead.

"Anybody who expected that Nick Hayek would disappoint or not manage to step out of his father's shadow has been proven dead wrong," said René Beyer, chief executive of Beyer, a watch retailer in Zurich.

Supporters of the TPP claim that this treaty will create good-paying jobs in the United States and reduce the trade deficit – but that's exactly what they said about Nafta, PNTR with China, and the South Korea trade agreement, among others, and they have been proven dead wrong each and every time.

I thought perhaps I'd stumbled onto the exception and not the rule, but five interviews later my suspicion was proven dead wrong.