confirmation

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Holder's chief supporter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the confirmation was a fulfillment of Martin Luther King's dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character.

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  1. noun The act of confirming.
  2. noun Something that confirms; verification.
  3. noun A Christian rite admitting a baptized person to full membership in a church.
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  • The Ukrainian side is ready to resume the talks and awaits a relevant confirmation from the Russian side, he said. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • Sen. Patrick Leahy, said the confirmation was a fulfillment of —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • Holder's chief supporter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, said the confirmation was a fulfillment of civil rights leader Martin Luther King's dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • There was something else in the AP article which said a lot about how both leading Democrats and the media few politics: "Holder's chief supporter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, said the confirmation was a fulfillment of civil rights leader Martin Luther King's dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character." —  World and Global Politics Blog
  • Holder's chief supporter, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), said the confirmation was a fulfillment of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 's dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
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  1. from Middle English confirmacion, from Old French confirmacion, French confirmation = Provencal confirmation = Spanish confirmacion = Portuguese confirmação = Italian confirmazione (also, in def. 1 (e) (1), = Dutch confirmatie = G. confirmation = Danish Swedish konfirmation), from Latin confirmatio(n-). from confirmare, past participle confirmatus, confirm: see confirm.
 

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