Sentence examples for first official confirmation from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Lynn's article was the first official confirmation.

Mr. Hollande gave the first official confirmation that French citizens were among the captives.

It was the first official confirmation of the location of the two fugitive Gaddafi sons.

It was the first official confirmation of the location of the two fugitive Gaddafi brothers.

The announcement on Tuesday was the first official confirmation of the arrest.

The first official confirmation came from Mitch Kupchak, the Lakers' general manager, in a statement posted online Friday night.

"This is the first official government confirmation that commercialism in schools is a problematic issue," said Andrew Hagelshaw, director of the Center for Commercial-Free Publin EducatiOaklandakland, Calif., which has waged many grass-roots battles against soft-drink contracts and Channel One.

The police announcement, issued through Xinhua, the state-run news agency, late on Monday, was the first official Chinese confirmation that the woman, Yu Yingzeng, and the man, Peter Humphrey, were arrested in connection with their work at ChinaWhys, an investigation and advisory company that they founded in Shanghai in 2003.

But this is the first official on the record confirmation from either company.

Thus a FOI request filed by the Justice Initiative with the Macedonian civil aviation authority triggered an official confirmation - the first public one in Macedonia - of the Skopje landing and departure of the rendition flight, and the fact that it arrived with no "passengers' and left with one.

Over a crackling field radio came reports of injuries and then, sometime later, official confirmation of the first fatality inflicted by a roadside bomb on an MRAP, the new Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected armored vehicle that the American military is counting on to reduce casualties from roadside bombs in Iraq.