Or maybe only 30 are true, in which case three should be confirmed overwhelmingly.

In that case, five should be confirmed overwhelmingly.

We took him at his word and overwhelmingly confirmed him to the Third Court of Appeals.

But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.

These results confirmed overwhelmingly that the machines which had read the punch cards had failed to count thousands of citizens' votes for presidential candidates.

So if all 78 hypotheses are true, then roughly 7.8 of them--call it eight-- should be confirmed overwhelmingly.

His successor, Robert M. Gates, has already been overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate.

The bishops' choice was overwhelmingly confirmed by a vote of the convention's House of Deputies, which represents lay people and priests.

Final abolition of the monarchy was confirmed overwhelmingly after constitutional legality was restored, by free referendum in 1974.

Mr. Greenspan - no surprise - was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate for a third term as Fed chairman.