Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay
Charles Caleb Colton
You have to do the research. If you don`t know about something, then you ask the right people who do. With She`s Gotta Have It (1986), I don`t think I got any revelation; it was just good to hear the women whom I interviewed confirm what I thought already...
Spike Lee
What you do today when you go into that jury room is going to echo throughout the history of Neshoba County from now on, ... You can either change the history that Edgar Ray Killen and the Klan wrote for us, or you can confirm it.
Ashok Pandey
We understand the general interest in Vladimir Guerrero. We confirm that we have made an offer to Guerrero, but we respectfully must reserve any further comment until the process is completed.
Andy Neary
We are confident the further review ... will confirm that DP World`s acquisition ... does not pose any threat to America`s safety and security.
Barbara Medlicott
There have been vague reports about him heading toward the Northwest area, like toward Oregon or Washington, ... We have not been able to confirm those, but we are not going to rule those out as a possibility.
James Lewis
The contracts at issue settled disputes with individual wholesale customers. Qwest does not believe that these agreements were required to be filed, but because this is a question that has not been previously clarified, we`ve asked the FCC to confirm our ...
Steve Davis
Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
Ron Lewis
Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
Allan Zaremberg
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.
Andrew Saunders
My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don`t go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.
Andre Johnson
It`s a very good tool to confirm that offenders are abiding by the system we have them in. This gives us a chance to monitor them on an ongoing basis.
Asad Rehman
It would be very difficult ... for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember ... what it was like when abortion was illegal in America ... As a college student at Stanford, I watched the passing of the plate ...
Angela Ming Bean
If units came upon a suspicious looking object, they could check it out with the MARCBOT. It would save time for the Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams, because they wouldn`t have to come out to confirm or deny the object. The MARCBOT could do that,
Arlen Spector
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
John Edward
I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story ...
Howard Fineman
I consider it the duty of scientific men who have learnt exact modes of working to examine phenomena which attract the attention of the public, in order to confirm their genuineness or to explain, if possible, the delusions of the dishonest and to expose ...
Ann Smith