Sentence examples for proved swift from inspiring English sources

Aided and abetted by Antonio Fazio, governor of Italy's central bank, Mr Profumo put together a group of banks to buy Generali shares.The battle proved swift, thanks to two factors.

Smaller businesses will prove swifter and more adept at adapting to better, cheaper business technology than their bigger brethren.

The move to crush Solidarity proved remarkably swift and effective, a textbook case of how an authoritarian regime can bring a rebellious society to heel.

But the Leafs, who won by the same score at the Garden home opener Oct. 27, proved too swift again — especially their top line, featuring Phil Kessel and Joffrey Lupul, the N.H.L.'s No. 1 and 3 scorers coming into the game.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's admission that he "probably" smoked crack cocaine during "one of my drunken stupors" proved a swift and sure gift to comedy and an inspiration for Canadians' trademark talent for self-deprecation.

Where Egypt and Tunisia's governments (just to take two examples) stood paralyzed, unable to stem the tide of rising popular discontent and its economic origins, Israeli's Prime Minister "Bibi" Netanyahu has proved remarkably swift in addressing the causes of the housing shortage and rising commodity prices in his country.

Progress proved much swifter, however, in the one area in which Libby's death had a positive effect.

Her speech proves as swift as it is friendly.

Few people thought the faltering would prove so swift and severe.

Not that he'd actually climbed into bed with Ransome, but he'd whispered sweet info into the detective's ear, hoping Chib's decline and fall would prove both swift and bloodless.

Again, justice has proved to be swift.