"prove" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Krilov gives his story the moral that rank proves injurious to rogues by calling attention to them.
- This military occupation alarmed the town of Hamburg, to which, indeed, it proved very injurious.
- She seemed to fear that her revelation might, after all, prove injurious rather than helpful to the girl.
- Such requirements merely prohibit the maintenance or continuance of conditions that would prove injurious to a member of the public or the broader public interest.
- The next Vice President, Charles G. Dawes, did not seek to attend Cabinet meetings under President Coolidge, declaring that "the precedent might prove injurious to the country."
- The authorities reportedly expressed concern that some methods used by religious organizations (brainwashing or physical abuse, for example) might prove injurious to public health, safety, morals, or order.
- For the Achaeans will not maintain the battle, when the ships are drawn into the sea, but they will look behind and will cease from strife; in that the counsel which you give will prove injurious.
- The abolition of the external slave trade proved very injurious to the trade of the seaports.
- I'm afraid I can't be here with you, on the grounds it might prove injurious to my health.
- And before you plead that it could prove injurious, I have often heard the greatest physicians recommend a sea voyage for the restoration of health.
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