Sentence examples for would have proven from inspiring English sources

The task would have proven contentious anywhere in Australia.

But their deficit still would have proven insurmountable were it not for a healthy dose of good fortune.

The whole affair would have proven detrimental to the well-being of anyone allergic to pomp and circumstance.

And given Ohio's standing in the US as a swing state, he said the idea of waging a legalization effort without a hefty bankroll would have proven futile.

"We are confident that we would have proven his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at a criminal trial," a department spokesman, Dean Boyd, said.

For Mr. Estrada, the end was inglorious, beginning with his impeachment trial on Tuesday, when senators serving as judges narrowly refused to open bank records that prosecutors say would have proven his guilt on corruption charges.

He believes they would have proved "collusion" to "trump up a story" against him.

Then again, judging from extant Mitford lore, that experience would have proved testing.

Hughes calmly carried out a manual neutralisation of the device; any error would have proved fatal.

Still, Paul Friedman, managing editor of ABC News, was not sure that pictures would have proved a panacea.

All this would have proved anarchic but for three consolidating features of the Arrau style.