Sentence examples for were only confirmed from inspiring English sources

Doubts about his temperament were only confirmed by his concession speech.

Some venues were only confirmed in recent weeks, after months or even years of persuasion.

When in late 1998 I was jailed for participating in an antigovernment student protest, my political leanings were only confirmed.

Their names were only confirmed last year when it was discovered they had autographed an envelope (along with their five male colleagues) featuring a postage stamp commemorating their astronaut class.

Concerns that O'Brien would shun radical change in favour of maintaining the status quo were only confirmed by an interview with the humanitarian news site Irin a few months into the job, where he appeared to dismiss the need for UN reform.

The World Championships were only confirmed late last year and are the first chance for riders to earn qualification points for the Rio Paralympics on a track at high altitude.

That was only confirmed in January 2014, by which time the man had left the UK.

The first brown dwarf was only confirmed by astronomers just 20 years ago.

The fact that his wife was the successful bidder was only confirmed on Thursday night by her law firm, Carter Ruck.

It was produced only as a piano roll during Joplin's lifetime, and his authorship was only confirmed in the 70s.

The interception was only confirmed because "GCHQ fell foul of their own internal rules on handling communications once they had been intercepted", the letter adds.