As the flight attendant handed me the sealed bag for customs, the last doubt was dispelled from my mind that I had managed the passage into adulthood.
In case there was any doubt of where the W3C stood on whether the future web needed protection from the giants of today, that doubt was dispelled last month.
Any lingering doubt was dispelled on Friday, when Pendleton produced a staggering burst of acceleration in the final of the women's keirin.
But Mr. Lombardo said his doubts were dispelled by Mr. Benioff and Mr. Weiss's pilot script.
But all doubts were dispelled when the image of Arne Duncan, the new education secretary, filled a large video screen from Washington.
(Any lingering doubts were dispelled when we were told that the hotel room reserved for us in Ashkelon faced north, which meant that it was less likely to incur a direct hit by errant missiles occasionally fired from Gaza, about a dozen miles to the south).
The result was that the potato-bound three-clam chowder was bland; perfectly fried, ricotta-stuffed zucchini blossoms were lackluster; a crisply fried striped bass fritter was just O.K. My doubts were dispelled, however, during my second meal, which was well-nigh perfect.
"If you stop and think 12 months ago virtually everybody - myself included - had doubts if he would make it, but those doubts were dispelled totally.
Fortunately, these doubts were dispelled to some extent, when he married Carol Choo in 2008.
These doubts were dispelled when he ended his first season at Arsenal with an impressive goal tally of 26.
But any doubts were dispelled in early 2017 when China's President Xi Jinping said that "the Paris agreement is a milestone in the history of climate governance.
