Sentence examples for instance to confirm from inspiring English sources

The authorities had been unwilling, for instance, to confirm the existence of a survivor of the shooting.

"While the Web enables all sorts of other biases – it lets us filter news, for instance, to confirm what we already believe – the use of the Web as a vessel of transactive memory is mostly virtuous.

Two online surveys were administered to the named chief investigators of grants; in the first instance to confirm eligibility and, in the second instance, to elicit further information about their study and its impacts.

Rams from flocks showing positive results to I-ELISA should not be exported and should be subjected to further investigations (clinical examination, CFT, semen culture or PCR for instance) to confirm or rule out the infection.

MR imaging is the modality of choice for follow-up of the surgical field, however, a number of other modalities can be useful in specific instances to confirm or exclude tumour recurrence.

Each of the imprinted genes described in this report have been mapped by fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) of BAC clones to metaphase chromosomes of platypus and wallaby cells in culture to determine their regional position and in some instances, to confirm retention of clustering across the cluster.

Having never been to the Met, I can't comment on how individual singers sound in its acoustic, but the sound, in this instance, seemed engineered to confirm equal weight on the voices, irrespective of their power.

Each analyst then compared each successive instance of the code to previous instances in order to confirm or alter the code and its definition (i.e., the constant comparative method) (Glaser and Strauss [1967]).

In some instances, re-analysis to confirm laboratory results may be a sensible first step.

The publisher's announcement for Mozart's quartets to Haydn, for instance, used the dedication to confirm the quality of the music: "Mozart's works call for no special praise, so that it should be quite superfluous to go into details; it need only be affirmed that here is a masterpiece.

For instance, I recently had to confirm my university enrollment to prevent my student loans from losing their interest-free status and going into repayment.