An increase of a quarter or half point would essentially confirm the recent rise in market interest rates but would not necessarily send them any higher.

For the next 15 minutes, he conducted a physical exam that essentially confirmed what he already knew.

The report said information obtained since July essentially confirmed findings that low levels of irritants were present in irradiated mail.

Rajoub essentially confirmed this assessment during my first meeting with him.

But Dr. Feldman said the finding essentially confirmed the popular conception of race.

These notes essentially confirm everything Petrenko told me before he died.

The exchange records essentially confirm and complement her copies of the brokers' records, although there are some gaps in each.

The large study essentially confirmed the results of the smaller one.

This report essentially confirms the practice we have built up, but it brings in three small innovations.

Kohl pushed through the common currency against all resistance; his experts essentially confirmed the assessment of Schröder.