Sentence examples for proved less accurate from inspiring English sources

And we were astonished to find that computer-based versions of Franklin's bookkeeping method — a program that weighed 18 different cues — proved less accurate than going with the rule of thumb of "get one good reason and ignore the rest of the information".

Instead, the decision would fall to a board within the SEC, which would rotate assignments among agencies, with those whose ratings proved less accurate garnering less business.Sentiment is also swinging against the industry in Europe, where politicians are livid at recent downgrades of sovereign debt in Greece's case, to junk just as officials were about to unveil a support plan.

The computer simulations suggested that the use of the method for UKA would prove less accurate than for TKA's.

Other visitors proved less stalwart.

Other efforts proved less successful.

Alas, the riposte proved less than devastating.

His other statements proved less prescient.

But her questions proved less than penetrating.

But blue crabs have proved less stable.

Other ventures have proved less enduring.

The brisket proved less troubling.