Its initial supporters, mostly European, have now been thoroughly vindicated.
It is safe to say Green has been thoroughly vindicated.
The opening of the franchise to 16- and 17-year-olds has also been thoroughly vindicated.
The coalition government, made up of the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, says this news thoroughly vindicates their deficit-reducing economic strategy.
Imagine the welcome the Special One would receive now that those who feared Chelsea could never replace him have been even more thoroughly vindicated.
The decision taken ahead of the 1998 World Cup to switch to the league format for qualifying, providing regular competitive fixtures and thus income, has been thoroughly vindicated.
Frank Rich has thoroughly vindicated my decision not to tune in for a single moment's TV coverage of the war ["The Spoils of War Coverage," April 13].
But his 71-year-old trainer, Henry Candy, had made positive noises about Limato all week, despite also having one of those Ascot winners, Twilight Son, in his stable, and the Lambourn man's judgment has now been thoroughly vindicated.
"We are delighted this important piece of public service journalism has been thoroughly vindicated by the independent regulator," said Daniel Pearl, Channel 4's deputy head of news and current affairs and Dispatches editor.
This isn't really comparable to the previous four games in the sense that they showed ambition and moral courage, thoroughly vindicating the apparently eccentric decision to omit Wayne Rooney, but the away goal will nag at them for the next 15 days.
Daniel Evans may have made a bold choice in programming this exuberant musical fantasia as part of his inaugural season at Chichester, but it's thoroughly vindicated by this pocket-sized staging from Michael Longhurst, which emphatically drives home the show's social currency 10 years after it premiered at the National.
