Sentence examples for mostly to confirm from inspiring English sources

It has been wielded more or less cautiously over the years, mostly to confirm widespread rumors of accomplishment.

This may have had something to do with his flirtation with Catholicism, but seems mostly to confirm him as a prickly, difficult man, not much given to diplomacy or ingratiating himself.

The inquest into Mr. Rigby's death, which opened for a few minutes at the Southwark Coroner's Court on Friday and was rapidly adjourned, served mostly to confirm what was already known: that the assailants swerved their car across several lanes of traffic, knocking Mr. Rigby down as they crashed into a traffic signpost on the sidewalk.

Steinbeck also drew upon the journal of Tony Berry, mostly to confirm dates and times.

Video consultation was used mostly to confirm diagnoses of the local general practitioners and to get advice about case management of the patients [ 11].

As neurophysiological investigations were performed mostly to confirm a suspected peripheral neuropathy, the true burden of subclinical disease remains to be determined, not only in DOA+, but also among patients with pure DOA.

The nocebo may also explain why people apparently develop sickness after an inert vaccine, and it may shed light on the oft-discussed side-effects of the contraceptive pill – such as depression, headache, and breast pain– which scientific trails have mostly failed to confirm.

But for all the delays GOP senators have imposed as retribution, they've mostly voted to confirm Obama's nominees anyway.

Radiographic imaging in children with wrist trauma is mostly performed routinely to confirm or rule out a fracture.

3) What happened?" Last January a writer at Vice assessed the available evidence – Twitter mentions and indistinct photographs, mostly – and felt able to confirm "he's definitely still alive".

Although the government has played down the scale of the prison abuses, some detainees' relatives have come forward recently to confirm them, mostly to opposition-linked Web sites that have provided credible information in the past, including roozonline.com and gooya.com.