All final doubts were finally dispelled in 1976 and 1977 when the energies of X-rays emitted from 258103 were measured.
But this suspicion is finally dispelled in favour of celebration: Godard broke with Truffaut after seeing Day for Night.
The loneliness of his childhood was finally dispelled when, in his early teens, he met another boy who shared his passion for science.
The long-held myth of a culture solely concerned with timeless icons of gods and kings in postures dictated by canon is finally dispelled, even if that is not the purpose of the show.
Success for MEMS in the optical communications market would finally dispel the aura of failed promise that settled over MEMS a decade ago after early missteps and a naivete about how fast the technology would take hold.
For several years, Dallas retained the stigma of the assassination – that was finally dispelled by the success of the city's NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys, which won its first Super Bowl in 1972, and by the TV soap, Dallas, which debuted in 1978.
Last year Younger told the Guardian that MI6 want to return to the old-school method of "tapping up" recruits as part of a concerted effort to draw in a new cadre of black and Asian officers and finally dispel the image of British spies as the preserve of a privileged elite.
MI6 is to return to the old-school method of "tapping up" recruits as part of a concerted effort to draw in a new cadre of black and Asian officers and finally dispel the image of British spies as the preserve of a posh, Oxbridge elite.
Instead we are reminded by the plot itself that this classification into different species was precisely how the human race was then regarded by those who had the power to order things; and the question is finally dispelled by the gradual gentle insistence that these characters might look like mice, or cats, or pigs, but what they are is people.
It was doubly potent for arriving at the end of a period in which a much cuddlier notion of the American teenager had reigned supreme – not least through the films of John Hughes, where the angst was always finally dispelled by a sunshiney worldview.
