Sentence examples for proved pride from inspiring English sources

When asked about doubts around the team, Fisher said the victory proved "pride, our character".

Afterwards John Coleman, Accrington Stanley's long-serving manager who believes he works to the Football League's smallest budget, proved pride personified.

Or that the entire thing went off without a hitch, that everyone had a great time, and that there were a bunch of really well-dressed dogs in attendance, again proving Pride to be one of London's best street parties.

Their pride has proved false pride: the threadbare efforts to delegitimise Ukip demonstrates only the desperation with which their overwrought labours are pursued.

This proto-Pride proved a bit too much for the neighbors, who arrested Morton, chopped down the pole, and scattered the residents.

Washington's prominence at Warsaw proved more than French pride could bear.

The UFC had planned to have Pride and UFC champions meet annually in a so-called Super Bowl of mixed martial arts, but the Pride purchase proved to be problematic.

Eventually, Bill's need for human connection proved stronger than blindsiding pride or debilitating fear; watching the 77-year-old seadog tell his estranged son for the first time, without looking at him, that he loved him, I felt humbled and agonised in equal measure.

Still, after decades in which many of his plays had been mutilated in the name of simplicity or happy endings, the rediscovery of the real Shakespeare in the mid-18th century brought a sense of excitement and even national pride that proved contagious among English painters.

America's Pride marches proved contagious, and similar events now happen across the world.

Kohlberg Kravis views its reluctance to sell quickly as a point of pride, proving that it is a supportive partner to the management of its investments.