Sentence examples for rather proved from inspiring English sources

Which rather proved her point, didn't it?

In short, many programs of the so-called welfare state, often derogated by conservatives as undermining family life, have rather proved a substantial – if not always successful – source of support for child-rearing.

As Hayatou dozed through it all, he rather proved that until the personnel and the culture change, all the Powerpoint presentations and governance buzzwords in the world will not heal Fifa's rotten heart.

His short-temper is famous, once angrily telephoning a journalist to demand why he had been described in a profile as irascible - as the reporter said, the call rather proved the point - and he can be exceptionally rude.

It was adding the letters in the first place that proved rather costly.

Three yearling colts fetched more than £1m each at Tattersalls' auction ring in Newmarket on Wednesday as the market for top-quality horseflesh once more proved rather more robust than the wider economy.

But the historians of the era date the beginning of the dynasty's decline from the accession of the first Circassian sultan (Barqūq) in 1382, claiming that thereafter, advancement in the state and the army was dependent on race (i.e., Circassian descent) rather than on proved skill in the art of war, which had served as the chief criterion for promotion during the Turkish period.

Page 2, in particular, proved rather challenging as participants struggled with whether or not http alone represented a phishing attack.

In the case of chest pain, gut feelings proved to be rather accurate (Buntinx et al. 1991) and in the case of diagnosing serious infections in children, the family physician's gut feeling 'that something is wrong' proved to be the best predictor among all signs and symptoms (Van den Bruel et al. 2007, 2010).

Because of budget cuts, plans for filming were constantly revised and reduced, but sometimes this proved to be an asset rather than a hindrance.

(This later proved untrue).