Sentence examples for proved dear from inspiring English sources
The manual properly reflects American law by explicitly proscribing the gamut of torture measures — including waterboarding — that have proved dear to the heart of administration zealots.
But the price of holding it proved dear, while efforts to build a local Afghan government to replace them failed.
It's the show that became a national phenomenon, graced the covers of magazines, proved dearest to producer Norman Lear's heart and still leaves you flummoxed today as to how exactly you're supposed to react.
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Even for plug-in converts, that may prove too dear a tithe to extract – regardless of what gas stations may be extracting from us in a year's time.
It was not long before he received the older poet's invitation to come to the great city, expressed in words that proved prophetic: "Come, dear great soul.
Wartime and cold-war espionage proved winning formulas for "Dear Fatherland" (1965), set in Berlin shortly after the building of the wall, and "And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow" (1970), a 700-page best seller about an assassination in World War II and the current trade in biological weapons.
You cannot possibly prove it is, dear boy".
Since then, he says that he has been obsessed with pinpointing the origins of the mummies, intent on proving a theory dear to him: that the movement of peoples throughout history is far more common than previously thought.
And then there's Harry, dear Harry, who proved his spare credentials par excellence when he was photographed bare-ass naked playing "strip billiards" in Vegas.
