Sentence examples for proved their trustworthiness from inspiring English sources

In August 1895, after gauging burghers' views from across the country, the first volksraad rejected the opposition's bill to give all uitlanders the vote by 14 ballots to 10. Kruger said this did not extend to those who had "proved their trustworthiness", and conferred burgher rights on all uitlanders who had served in Transvaal commandos.

"Politicians once needed to prove their trustworthiness, efficiency, authority," the columnist Cristina Odone wrote in The Daily Telegraph.

North Koreans will face their own struggle to prove their trustworthiness, given a track record of violating deal after deal they have signed in the past.

All people deserve a chance to prove their trustworthiness; but no one should expect to keep it if their actions prove them unworthy of our trust.

In coaching other financial planners, I've come to the conclusion that too many of my peers are caught up in trying to make clients comfortable, too eager to prove their trustworthiness.

Just because a company is larger in size and scope (and already has the credentials to prove their trustworthiness), it doesn't mean they won't come across hurdles.

Although people who monitor and constrain other people's behavior and do not allow them to prove their own trustworthiness may rely on others, they do not trust them.

Slavery proved their undoing.

This incident proved their stupidity.

Doing otherwise "proved" their irrationality.

Nevertheless, it proved their breakthrough.