Sentence examples for confirmation remarks from inspiring English sources

In his confirmation remarks, Mr. Zangeneh said that his position would become almost as important as that of the foreign minister, because of the international sanctions that have sharply curtailed Iran's sales of oil, its most important export.

British U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce welcomed Haley's remarks as confirmation that a U.S. peace plan is ready.

http://t.co/RF2MScFwrt He told The Times: "This phrase is the final confirmation that Tim Hunt's remark was light-hearted banter against himself.

He did not elaborate on that last point, but there has often been an undercurrent of bitterness in Justice Thomas's public remarks since his confirmation hearings in 1991, when he faced accusations of sexual harassment.

In remarks concerning the confirmation of scientific hypotheses (in physics, which he contrasted with chemistry and physiology), Duhem noted that a hypothesis cannot be used to derive testable predictions in isolation; to derive predictions one also requires "auxiliary" assumptions, such as background theories, hypotheses about instruments and measurements, etc.

Haspel's letter went further than her remarks in her confirmation hearing last week, in which she refused to say whether the torture program was immoral.

They also see Washington as responsible for the bad relations between the U.S. and Venezuela (as well as the hemisphere generally), and these unfortunate remarks are additional confirmation.

"Judges are like umpires," Judge Roberts declared in the opening remarks to his own confirmation hearings.

However, he then slightly walked back those remarks when asked for confirmation by saying he was not committing either way.

His remarks were taken as confirmation that the films — doing away with nosebleed seats, eliminating sightline problems and offering vivid close-ups of performers — undermine actual operagoing.

Mr Bush recommends Natan Sharansky's "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror" (Public Affairs) to almost everyone he meets (including Condoleezza Rice, who mentioned the book during her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing).