Sentence examples for confirmed himself to from inspiring English sources

Craven, authoritative but modest, confirmed himself to be, along with David Attenborough, one of the few veteran TV presenters not obviously to have become egomaniacal.

A fine second to One Knight in the Royal & SunAlliance Chase at Cheltenham followed and he confirmed himself a real threat to chasing's elite with his eight-length success over Best Mate in the Tote Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon.

Cameron himself hasn't confirmed himself as a fan.

Compton began with work still to do to confirm himself as the captain's partner for next summer's Ashes, but could consider himself considerably better established in that role by stumps.

Unfortunately for the 30-year-old Mancunian, his body let him down again, allowing John O'Shea to step in for most of last term, and the start of this to confirm himself as United's current first-choice left-back.

Whitehead set his world mark of 24.10sec in Tuesday's semi-final and reproduced the time in the final to confirm himself as a three-times world champion.

He seeks to confirm himself as boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter, and one of the champions of the ages.

And while the British raiders, Binocular and Menorah, may be better than they showed last time, Hurricane Fly can be expected to confirm himself the best hurdler since Istabraq.

But it gave 14-1 shot Quentin Collonges the chance to confirm himself one of the toughest long-distance handicappers; the little grey, ridden by Andrew Tinkler, rallied gamely after being outjumped by Same Difference at the last to take the prize by two lengths.

With his last album called Years of Refusal, Morrissey is nothing if not defiant, and I suspect that his unattractive response to being challenged over race in the past is to grow ever-more certain of his own righteousness and then court fresh controversy in order to confirm to himself that he is being persecuted.

Kleiman himself confirmed this to me in writing, adding: "Senator Bayh is committed to getting this GAO study commissioned".