"prove" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Examinations for certificates of competency were instituted for all masters and mates of foreign-going ships and were subject to withdrawal if they proved incompetent or unfit to perform their duties.
- Even though it would be great to go back, Marty McFly-style, to spend a weekend in 1957 New York, modern scientists have proved wholly incompetent in their efforts to build a time machine.
- The Bush administration has proved utterly incompetent in fighting terrorists, but it has skillfully exploited the terrorist threat for domestic political gain.
- Or he was connected to live humans who proved incompetent or indifferent; one woman all but invited him to take his money elsewhere.
- FEMA's response to Hurricane Andrew in 1992 perfectly foreshadowed Katrina: the agency took three days to arrive on the scene, and when it did, it proved utterly incompetent.
- But almost every time an Amyrlin proved so incompetent or otherwise problematic that she threatened the future of the Tower, sisters have risen up to remove her.
- A fair law would set reasonable time limits for filing death penalty petitions but also deal justly with prisoners whose lawyers have made minor mistakes or proved grossly incompetent.
- Lucille appoints Gob the new Bluth Company president, but since Gob proves utterly incompetent, the position's real duties revert to Michael.
- Nigeria's last experiment with civilian rule, which began in 1979, ended in 1983 because politicians proved altogether corrupt and incompetent.
- The young Emperor proved hopelessly incompetent.
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