Sentence examples for much as confirmed from inspiring English sources

It is not broken so much as confirmed by the father's great and prophetic rant.

Before the dance, rock journalist Green Phillips called Don to see if Bobby would eat the chicken this time, which as much as confirmed that it would be done.

We have collectively been indignant about the outrages of that era for a long time, so when the Klansman (Steve Aronson) spews out his invective, it doesn't jolt us so much as confirm the odiousness we have long recognized.

The white supremacist spouts the usual vitriol, not really illuminating anything so much as confirming a stereotype: If it speaks with a Southern accent, it must be a racist.

Natorp and Cassirer were greatly concerned to show that Einstein's theories of relativity did not undermine the postulate of scientific continuity so much as confirm it.

These were emphatically not the songs of a swain disappointed in love, but those of a man disappointed by life -- or not so much disappointed as confirmed in his low expectations.

Hence, effective pollen dispersal in such a context is expected to occur over much longer distances, as confirmed by this study.

Katrina didn't usher in a new narrative about race in America as much as it confirmed an old one.

Minigene splicing reporter assays can confirm the splicing effects of the predicted causal SNPs in vitro, much as luciferase reporter assays can confirm the effects of predicted causal SNPs in enhancer regions.

The most salient feature of vimentin and other IFs is that the filament is rather compliant at low strain, whereas it becomes much stiffer at high strain, as confirmed in the analysis shown in Fig. 4. We find that there is no sliding at small strain, suggesting that IFs should be considered as a continuous body at small strains.

That's why I don't think Mr Romney's victory in this week's debate, if it should turn out to improve his standing in the polls, would demonstrate that "debates matter" so much as to confirm that Messrs Romney and Obama are indeed quite equally matched, and that over the course of the campaign, we can expect each camp to more or less neutralise the other.