Sentence examples for that proved capable from inspiring English sources

The first field tactics that proved capable of countering the knight were built around the bow and the crossbow.

His political genius was for improvisation and compromise, coupled with a verbal felicity that proved capable of persuading people that he was doing one thing when actually doing another.

After Williams flirted with signing with the Dallas Mavericks, King persuaded him to re-sign with the Nets, completing an All-Star triumvirate that proved capable of competing in the Atlantic Division.

General Bobetko was something of a national hero in Croatia for building up -- with help from an American company hired by the government -- a force that proved capable in 1995 of recapturing the approximately one-third of the country held by the Serbs since 1991.

Recently, we described a vector defective for all immediate-early gene expression and deleted for the joint region between the two unique genome segments that proved capable of extended transgene expression in non-neuronal cells.

By 1067 the town was clearly a well-fortified burh that proved capable of resisting an invasion force sent from Ireland by Harold's sons.

"A first-class [intelligence] opinion would have said, 'We [the intelligence agencies] know Saddam once had weapons of mass destruction, we know that he proved capable of using them, and we have no evidence that he has destroyed them.

For a long time, not even the profoundly informed arguments that Dennett advanced proved capable of healing that wound.

The global recognition of vaccination is strongly related to the fact that it has proved capable of dramatically reducing the incidence of certain diseases [ 1- 5].

It is noteworthy, also, that levodopa has proved capable of attenuating peripheral sympathetic activity in experimental animals [ 94], and has been successfully used (without a decarboxylase inhibitor) to treat congestive heart failure [ 95].

Ms. Feinstein, arguing that law enforcement officials have proved capable of handling cases that arise on domestic soil, said the amendment was intended to "clarify" that the government may not put Americans arrested domestically in military detention.