Though the first was in some way successful, the latter proved failure.

I was already in debt a proved acre and a half, nearly, before the house ever went up.

Not the ties of the dead, nor yet their proved character, affect the issue.

"They're not the only company that got optimistic on proved reserves."

To the contrary, it removed two people of proved effectiveness.

The writers whom we agree are the great ones deal only in matters of proved importance.

We'll help pay operating costs for community groups with proved track records, providing the support they'll need to grow.

Second, the entry-level person has no proved track record in the workplace.

Apple said it was applying a proved business model to developing the Mexican market.

Always, night and day, on duty or off, these storm-strangers will have one of our proved men watching them.

This argument belongs outside the universal set of proved scientific ideas.

To this day, there is no proved way of stopping hailstorms.

Officials, however, said that the plant would use proved technology to insure safe and clean emissions.

The area of land released was sufficient to proved housing and amenities for up to 5,000 people.

So many enemies, and every one a proved killer.

Getting out of the city is a proved curative.

Would I buy a case of proved Bordeaux at the same price?

He called the guards, saying "My brother is a proved traitor.

There is no proved correlation between the different worlds.

What might produce the symptoms she had witnessed in a man of proved courage and determination?

He changed his horse for a proved and fresh one of great strength and spirit.

If we head back east we are bound to come to proved ground."

In this series a proved cause for small bowel blood loss was an infrequent finding.

Technological advances, new discoveries, and political changes will likely lead to additional proved oil reserves in the future.

That some proved masterworks, film historians say, is little short of miraculous.

She was a person who could prove things can be done.

But he would never get to prove himself in the job.

You just have to go out and prove them wrong.

Even at age 66, he still has something to prove.

I am not out here to prove other people wrong.

And the next few days could prove difficult for the president.

But within six months, I was able to prove myself.

We understand you've got to prove things on the court.

Over time, some say, the new money will not prove much different.

Some came just to prove to themselves they still could.

We all feel each of us has something to prove.

The Government has a long way to go to prove its case.

"Because maybe I want to prove something to myself instead of you."

She had to go off on her own, prove something.

I have no evidence to prove who was in the office.

But war came, and he left her to prove himself a man.

So deal with him as I prove true to you.

They'll find enough to prove he was in the house.

Think of what he did to prove himself to his father.

Three days was more than long enough to prove his point.

But they will prove nothing because we'll be in control.

In other words, they would have to prove his state of mind.

Let him go out of his way to prove a point.

She did not have to know him to prove her case.

He began to try and figure out how to prove his idea.