Sentence examples for friendly but confirmed from inspiring English sources
A spokesman for Mr Blair described the 45-minute meeting as "very warm and friendly", but confirmed that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero insisted that he intended to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq unless the UN took over.
Friendly lawyers confirmed I should not leave the country.
But, awkwardnesses aside, the unusually camera-friendly performances confirmed what theatre-goers already knew: that this Broadway season was a particularly rich and diverse one.
Wales have been drawn against Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Israel, Cyprus and Andorra in Group B. Coleman's side also have a friendly confirmed against the Netherlands in Amsterdam on 4 June, and begin the Euro 2016 campaign at home to Andorra on 9 September.
A quick call to my friendly local D&B confirmed that this was, in fact, true.
In many respects it was one of those international friendlies that confirmed what most people already knew before a ball had been kicked.
Expect mutual backslapping and friendly bows to confirm that fact.
"This win gives us confidence and we can look forward to Sweden [a friendly yet to be confirmed] next season.
Steven Spielberg's The BFG, which stars Mark Rylance as Roald Dahl's Big Friendly Giant, is already confirmed to be screening out of competition.
Servers are friendly but clueless.
