Example sentences of "prove themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 2 | But the Welsh , because they have n't won a Major professional event , keep proving themselves by winning Amateur Championships . |
| 3 | No more will they be called upon to prove themselves by engaging in certain prescribed activities and no longer need they safeguard their hard-won reputations . |
| 4 | There is , of course , no inventory of appropriate intuitive judgements given in advance : candidates have to prove themselves by their effectiveness in analysis . |
| 5 | They prove themselves by becoming elite performers who climb rapidly through the organization . |