Confirmatory

Of course, rituals can be contrived both to reduce contingency [so-called confirmatory rites] and to create it [rites of resistance]; the connections here are multiple and complex. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The deal is also subject to "confirmatory" due diligence by ❋ Unknown (2010)

As Dermot has speculated, the government could introduce the mayors first, given them a trial run, then hold 'confirmatory' referendums to see if people in places like Manchester want to keep them or not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"confirmatory" testing - these are tests that the team make to confirm that they've developed a feature correctly, to confirm that they haven't broken an existing feature, or to confirm that a previously-discovered bug has not been reintroduced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Center for Science in the Public Interest published a statement this week saying further testing is necessary: “Because the new analyses seem so improbable, confirmatory studies using the best analytical method need to be done before the alarm bells ring too loudly.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

We regard it as confirmatory of a fundamental principle ... ❋ Ronald Dworkin (2011)

The glaringly “obvious” profusion of this confirmatory evidence testifies, in the mind of the ideologue, not to her selective perception and retention of information, but to the accuracy of the theory (however inarticulate) that makes the evidence for it so “visible” to begin with. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Add to those propensities the confirmation bias (which seeks and finds confirmatory evidence for what we already believe) and the hindsight bias (which tailors after-the-fact explanations to what we already know happened), and we have the foundation for conspiratorial cognition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dick gave a confirmatory nod to Oh Joy, and said to ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every word that is uttered, entirely confirmatory of an understanding. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And he was dead right that a plan is a plan and doesn't need a confirmatory phone call. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A second, confirmatory trial is needed to approve a gel for general use. ❋ Mark Schoofs (2011)

When your fingers touch it, confirmatory signals flow up the nerves. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

If the result is abnormally high, then a confirmatory test is done called an ACTH stimulation test. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2009)

To begin with, there is more than one type of test, a very sensitive (read: many false positives) “screening test” and a somewhat less sensitive (but still prone to false positives due to the nature of the manufacture of the HIV tests in general, see below for more detail) “confirmatory test”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Westinghouse said it "will continue to work with the NRC as part of the normal licensing process to address the few remaining confirmatory items, none of which are safety significant and several of which are self-identified by Westinghouse," according to a statement. ❋ Cassandra Sweet (2011)

Such tests are best used for confirmatory purposes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Alistair Darling has not done his party any favours by publishing a memoir that adds further confirmatory detail about the profound policy disputes and poisonous relationships which consumed the last government. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Unfortunately, the confirmatory data didn't fully support the original studies, said Ellen Sigal , the group's chairwoman. ❋ Alicia Mundy (2011)