#confirm

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. ↗

— Ma Jian

#china #confirmation #entrance #grand #new

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#balance #confirmation #face #friends #i

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#only #opinions #own #people #their

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. ↗

— William Herschel

#confirming #contained #discoveries #high #human

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached. ↗

— John Strachan

#belief #christian #confirm #converts #earnestness

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

#authority #been #bred #confirmed #custom