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establish as in:  establish a positive tone

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  • Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest college in the United States.
    established = started
  • The rule is so well-established, it is no longer open to reasonable legal dispute.
    established = existing firmly
  • As used in line 24, "rule" most nearly refers to an "established habit."
    established = existing
  • We want to establish our company as a leader in the industry.
    establish = set in reputation
  • "Old established firm," he volunteered.   (source)
    established = long-existing
  • "Tell me," he would say, "why have you placed this comma here? What relationship between these phrases are you hoping to establish?"   (source)
    establish = create
  • Salem had been established hardly forty years before.   (source)
    established = founded (started)
  • The slaveholders have been known to send in spies among their slaves, to ascertain their views and feelings in regard to their condition. The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head.   (source)
    establish = create
  • Our school is one of the finest ever established.   (source)
    established = created
  • Lori could take it to New York and use it to get established, so that by the time I arrived, everything would be set.   (source)
    established = settled (firmly in place)
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  • Stories of cannibalism among castaways were so common that British sailors considered the practice of choosing and sacrificing a victim to be an established "custom of the sea."   (source)
    established = existing, or set in place
  • Hortensia had given Esperanza her baths since she was a baby and they had an established routine.   (source)
    established = created and maintained
  • I can't move too quickly.... But I establish the slow hunter's tread I use when tracking game.   (source)
    establish = settle into
  • But while people were happy to talk to him, they preferred to send their children to established schools.   (source)
    established = long-successful
  • Perhaps the cancer has established a beachhead in his brain.   (source)
    established = created
  • Contrary to common belief, however, the bus doesn't lie beneath any established flight path, and very few planes fly over it.   (source)
    established = standard (set in place)
  • Though Jonas had only become a Five the year that they acquired Lily and learned her name, he remembered the excitement, the conversations at home, wondering about her: how she would look, who she would be, how she would fit into their established family unit.   (source)
    established = existing
  • As soon as he had learned to know his camel better, and to establish a relationship with him, he threw the book away.   (source)
    establish = create
  • Almost none of them knew how to establish a direct line to the target, and when they reached the far wall few of the new ones had any idea how to catch on or even control their rebounds.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • Challenging established authority.   (source)
  • They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months.   (source)
  • In the old and well-established code of dueling, it is understood that the number of paces the offender and offended take before shooting should be in inverse proportion to the magnitude of the insult.   (source)
    established = accepted
  • To the established middle class of white Ohioans, these hillbillies simply didn't belong.   (source)
    established = long-existing
  • They were strong supporters of a movement to establish a Jewish state in Israel.   (source)
    establish = create
  • Us—a family of long-established, well-regarded merchants.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • By establishing himself as the protagonist of his own story, he inspired me and countless other young people to see ourselves as capable of taking control of our own destinies, and to realize how each decision we make determines the course of our life stories.   (source)
    establishing = setting in place
  • Only one important topic was not addressed: the establishing of alpha-omega relationships with major lifeboat pests.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • "A revolutionary council of the armed forces has been established, and our watan will now be known as the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan," Abdul Qader said.   (source)
    established = created
  • I suggest you cite your differences of opinion with the Holy See and establish yourself as your own Christian organization.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • The older gentleman is established.   (source)
    established = long-successful
  • I'd like to establish the objection.   (source)
    establish = set in place (for the record to argue upon appeal)
  • The Triwizard Tournament was first established some seven hundred years ago as a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang.   (source)
    established = started
  • In the play, the invaders pose as hook-nosed department-store owners, crooked jewelers, dishonorable bankers; they sell glittering trash; they drive established village businessmen out of work.   (source)
    established = previously existing
  • If I establish a link with NASA, I can talk to them by holding a page of text up to the lander's camera.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • An air raid blackout signal system, details of which can be found elsewhere in this edition, was established.   (source)
    established = created
  • YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED A NEW RECORD.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • She still had to fight to establish herself as a fair justice-her history as a public defender preceded her into her courtroom, and prosecutors assumed she'd side with the defense.   (source)
    establish = set in reputation
  • Business was excellent when Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to promoting the newly created county's domestic tranquility, dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there establish its seat of government.   (source)
    establish = create
  • The need for deceit was a bitter taste in his mouth, but Ned knew he must tread softly here, must keep his counsel and play the game until he was firmly established as regent.   (source)
    established = settled
  • For this was the Summer Session, just established to keep up with the pace of the war.   (source)
    established = created
  • New churches were established in the surrounding villages and a few schools with them.   (source)
    established = started
  • Bhutan, which under the 1865 Treaty of Sinchulu ceded border land to Britain; and Britain, which in exchange for that land provided Bhutan an annual subsidy, and under whose influence Bhutan's monarchy was established in 1907.   (source)
    established = created
  • As you must know, it would be unusual for us to publish a complete novella by an unknown writer, or for that matter a well-established one.   (source)
    established = set with a good reputation
  • From the first, they had established a communication that went far beyond words.   (source)
    established = created and maintained
  • By August, Len wanted to establish some boundaries for his sake and for my father's.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • Stoneman and Black drew forth their rulebooks, which also contained brief histories of the Firemen of America, and laid them out where Montag, though long familiar with them, might read: "Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies."   (source)
    established = founded (started)
  • The LEP had established a surface Op's HQ at E1:Tara.   (source)
    established = created
  • In time, my grandfather and dad established relationships with coin dealers across the country, and my grandfather spent a fortune over the years trading up and improving the collection.   (source)
  • It had been stupid of me to write him a check —greediness on my part; I'd been thinking about establishing a lineage for the piece, though at this point even an envelope of cash placed under a napkin and slid across the table was no assurance he was going to let the matter drop.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • This is the best proof we've had so far that many officers and generals are fed up with the war and would like to see Hitler sink into a bottomless pit, so they can establish a military dictatorship, make peace with the Allies, rearm themselves and, after a few decades, start a new war.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • In the early nineteenth century, a group of reformers set out to establish a system of public education in the United States.   (source)
    establish = create
  • In 2004, fed up with rampant violence, more than 5,000 Tapachula residents marched in the streets demanding that Mexico establish a death penalty for gangsters.   (source)
  • We have a bit of a routine established in just two weeks.   (source)
    established = settled
  • To ensure that war would never break out again, they decided that it was necessary to establish the Riders.   (source)
    establish = create and maintain
  • They carried him out to a dry paddy, established security, and sat smoking the dead man's dope until the chopper came.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • "As soon as circumstances allow, a tribunal will be established to determine whether you behaved honorably during Redd's reign or whether you are, in fact, guilty of war crimes," Alyss said.   (source)
    established = created
  • As he tried to establish some inner mental balance, the anger that he thought had so recently died inside him began to emerge.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • In between that calamity and this, they had visited George III in London, published a newspaper, made baskets, led Oglethorpe through forests, helped Andrew Jackson fight Creek, cooked maize, drawn up a constitution, petitioned the King of Spain, been experimented on by Dartmouth, established asylums, wrote their language, resisted settlers, shot bear and translated scripture.   (source)
    established = created
  • A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.   (source)
    established = existing
  • The director of the company wouldn't build it, however, and so at the age of twenty-two, in 1912, shortly after marrying, the Chairman left to establish his own company.   (source)
    establish = create
  • They had not established their position skilfully enough, or perhaps they were too thrifty.   (source)
    established = settled
  • She depended heavily on the "king/queen system" which she established in our house long before I was born: the eldest sibling was the king or queen and you could not defy him or her, because you were a slave.   (source)
    established = started
  • No material possessions can make up for a missing parent, and they can actually do harm in establishing a kid's values.   (source)
    establishing = setting in place
  • If literature seems to be too comfortably patriarchal, a novelist like the late Angela Carter or a poet like the contemporary Eavan Boland will come along and upend things just to remind readers and writers of the falseness of our established assumptions.   (source)
    established = existing
  • Taking Perry's advice, he had founded hospitals, established orphanages and funded schools in his native Paris.   (source)
    established = created
  • "My trade was good," he said, "and for the first time in my life I was established in a business that was satisfactory to me."   (source)
    established = settled
  • Here in Kimvula District we're working with farmers on a soybean project, trying to establish a cooperative—a tiny outpost of reasonable sustenance in the belly of Mobutu's beast.   (source)
    establish = create
  • Soon a rhythm was established, and it was thereafter rare that more than a few waking hours would pass without contact between them, and they found themselves in those early days of their romance growing hungry, touching each other, but without bodily adjacency, without release.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • We would establish strongholds in various parts of the city, demonstrating that we were in control—and essentially daring the enemy to attack.   (source)
  • The "Old Covenant" between God and Israel had been replaced by the "New Covenant" which Jesus had established between God and mankind.   (source)
  • On March 9, 1973, the journal Nature published a letter from J. Douglas, a biologist at Brunel University: It is twenty-one years since George Gey established the famous HeLa cells in culture.   (source)
    established = created
  • A permanent trust fund for college scholarships had been established with a donation of one million dollars "from one of your former students."   (source)
  • North Carolina State was the first to offer Justin a football scholarship and, with direct private jet service established between Memphis and Raleigh, North Carolina State became, to Michael Oher, an appealing place to play football.   (source)
  • These Alfas and Victors appear to be racing for our coast, almost certainly with the intention of establishing an interdiction force—effectively a blockade of our Atlantic coast.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • Her arrival at Jackson Middle preceded the breakup of two well-established couples, as well as marking the beginnings of a reputation built more on speculation and wishful thinking than truth, which had followed her since.   (source)
    established = settled
  • Through Ben's Royal Ballet connections he had established a very special friendship with Margot Fonteyn.   (source)
    established = created
  • Y.T. establishes her space on the pavement by zagging mightily from lane to lane, establishing a precedent of scary randomness.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • He established a network of mysterious contacts that enabled him to buy antiques, particularly baroque French porcelain, for which he had a weakness.   (source)
    established = created
  • I stand ready to bring the full spectrum of combat power to bear in order to achieve my mission and the goals established by my country.   (source)
    established = set
  • He was on the field simply because by the standards she'd established for the Fugees, he deserved to be.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • Florentino Ariza had met her at a time when she would have received any man who wanted to be with her, even if he were hired by the hour, and they had established a relationship that was more serious and longer-lived than would have seemed possible.   (source)
    established = created
  • All four had established lives for themselves with a boyfriend or girlfriend; they all had jobs, places to live, and Co-op debit cards.   (source)
  • That only reinforced my long-time and well-established feelings for them.   (source)
    established = long-existing
  • They'd been arguing all morning, and had established a polite buffer of silence between them.   (source)
    established = created
  • He had been establishing his career then, of course, busy with his clinic—and his photography too—but really it was his guilt that had kept him distant.   (source)
    establishing = starting and putting on a firm footing
  • One of them, they explained, had been a fisherman on the coast; the other had been taken as a child to Sweden by his parents when the Soviets were established in Estonia.   (source)
    established = settled
  • The team regularly plays against high schools from Colorado Springs, which have well-established hockey programs.   (source)
    established = long-existing
  • Can I really have established a new connection so easily?   (source)
    established = created
  • Though dusk had established itself, Dick, doing a steady sixty miles an hour, was still driving without headlights, but then the road was straight, the country was as level as a lake, and other cars were seldom sighted.   (source)
    established = settled
  • You have established a most worthwhile dream and goal for your life.   (source)
    established = created
  • Just in the last few weeks, though, as his son gets ready to depart, he's made a play at establishing a relationship.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • The mills in which he was concerned were not earning as they should, so he was told; and there was discussion as to whether they be moved south, or a Southern mill be established which might be considered in the nature of a branch, and where the coarser grades of sheeting would be manufactured, as well as all the spinning done.   (source)
    established = created
  • The rebellious war …. is manifestly carried on for the purpose of establishing an independent empire.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • Then, after a long moment: "The essence of life is to be found in the frustrations of established order."   (source)
    established = already set in place
  • Some years before, I had established a code which never varied.   (source)
    established = created
  • About its health statistics, Alex said, "I think Comrade Fidel is very good at establishing discipline, so his public health must be very disciplined."   (source)
    establishing = creating, starting, or setting in a place
  • His reputation for candid thinking on race was already well established.   (source)
    established = set (firmly existing)
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establish as in:  establish that there is a need

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  • The sixth paragraph (lines 67-68) is primarily concerned with establishing the contrast between men and masculine traits.
  • Since we previously established that she was at work on Monday morning, we can eliminate her as a suspect.
    established = determined (figured out)
  • Can you establish her location on Monday morning?
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • I've asked my brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, but I have not been able to definitively establish a timeline, and have therefore relied on my own memories.   (source)
  • For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?   (source)
    establish = prove
  • And besides, testimony has already established that the red fibers could have been transferred from Miss Clark's clothing to those of Mr. Andrews prior to the night of October 29 to 30.   (source)
    established = proven
  • Unfortunately, she gave herself away. In the eyes. They were agitated. She knew the exact moment when Viktor Chemmel established that the book was a prize possession.
    "I'll tell you what," he said. "For fifty marks, you can have it back."   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • We've established that.   (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
  • Evidence unearthed by the forty-odd expeditions sent to search for them eventually established that all had perished, the victims of scurvy, starvation, and unspeakable suffering.   (source)
    established = showed
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  • This is one of the many examples of the men missing in action erroneously reported and later being established as a lie.   (source)
    established = shown or proven
  • At any rate, having firmly established that either approach might be the right one, the author proceeded to his second meditation: "Of Sadness."   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • When these townships were established, Afrikaners, or whites of Dutch ancestry, made up 9 percent of the population.   (source)
    established = created
  • There was no other evidence to establish Mr. McMillian's guilt for capital murder at trial other than Myers's testimony.   (source)
    establish = prove or demonstrate
  • Nonetheless, establishing Christ's divinity was critical to the further unification of the Roman empire and to the new Vatican power base.   (source)
    establishing = demonstrating
  • It's my understanding that the crime-scene technicians didn't find any fingerprints they could establish as belonging to a perpetrator.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • I've already established it's plenty to keep the rover warm.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • Harry, we need to establish whether Sirius really has left Headquarters.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • Three Scotches later, Aria and Ezra had established that they'd both met the same old sailor bartender at the Borg bar in Reykjavik, loved the way bathing in the mineral-rich blue lagoon hot springs made them feel sleepy, and actually liked the rotten-egg sulfur smell of the geothermal hot spring water.   (source)
    established = learned
  • And besides, she'd like to know what kind of studies had established that the youngest daughter and not the eldest is best suited to care for their mother.   (source)
    established = shown
  • You grown … we done established that.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • DANFORTH—(his first real outburst, in which his contempt for Parris is clear): Mr. Parris, I bid you be silent! (He stands in silence, looking out the window. Now, having established that he will set the gait.) Mr. Cheever, will you go into the court and bring the children here?   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • You have two hours to get footage showing the damage from the bombing, establish that Thirteen's military unit remains not only functional but dominant, and, most important, that the Mockingjay is still alive.   (source)
    establish = show
  • Your Honor, while no direct corroboration has yet been made, the minor has an established pattern of extreme dysfunctional behavior.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or known
  • I think we've established that I'm not very good at trigonometry.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • I established the fact that Nancy had been in the habit of selling her employer's cast-off garments to the servants, with or without her master's permission; so McDermott could have come by his Shirt of Nessus honestly enough.   (source)
  • There, lawyers could use the Nuremberg Code to establish whether a scientist was acting within the ethical boundaries of the profession.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • In a single play Michael Oher had established himself as too rich for the blood of Southern Miss.   (source)
    established = proven
  • Slowly, during the course of the day, we established there was a small American base two miles away.   (source)
    established = learned
  • He concluded: "It is something that only God can do, of course, but in any event it would be good to have it established in theoretical terms."   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • So Irene Nesser returned to the Matterhorn Hotel, where she spent an hour hanging around to establish her presence.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • No test had established the fact, nor had he sought one.   (source)
    established = proven
  • The exam of the ECFMG—Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates—established that I had the knowledge and credentials to pursue postgraduate training in America.   (source)
    established = determined
  • Having established premeditation of great degree, Green left the witness to the ministrations of the defense.   (source)
    established = proven
  • In examining the income gap between black and white adults—it is well established that blacks earn significantly less—scholars have found that the gap is virtually eradicated if the blacks' lower eighth-grade test scores are taken into account.   (source)
    established = known or proven
  • Men like Hungry Joe glowered at him with blameful hatred, and Appleby subjected him to vindictive discourtesy now that he had established himself as a hot pilot and a ping-pong player who never lost a point.   (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
  • Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.   (source)
    established = proven
  • That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of yours as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • Still, she got there, we've established that.   (source)
    established = proven or shown
  • It's proper to begin with the regular facts, but after a rule is established beyond all doubt, the facts in conformity with it become dull because they no longer teach us anything new.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • "But by this time hadn't you established the fact that he'd been with Medusa?" asked the Tennessean.   (source)
    established = determined or shown
  • Ellsworth went into extensive questioning of both Green and Fordham, trying to establish that they had come across the Amistad first.   (source)
    establish = show
  • Idle gossip had hardened into established fact.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • But so great a claim will need to be established and clear proofs will be required, should this Aragorn ever come to Minas Tirith.   (source)
    established = proved
  • It appears, as far as can be established at present, that the Comet was stalled just beyond the point where the tunnel makes a sharp curve.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • By his sophomore year, Oscar had established himself as a standout student leader.   (source)
    established = proven
  • It was established that we were neither of us outlaws.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • We had already established that our hometowns in Kentucky were separated by only two counties, and that we had both been to the exact same Bob Seger concert at the Kentucky State Fair my senior year.   (source)
    established = learned
  • I think we have established in so many ways that I am hot enough for the both of us.   (source)
    established = determined or seen
  • ...it is established ... that...   (source)
    established = known or proven
  • I had read quite a bit about sexual problems while studying at that noted athenaeum of psychology, Duke University, and had come away with some fairly well established facts: that male primates in captivity, for instance, when denied female companionship, will try to bugger each other, often with gleeful success, and that many prisoners after long periods of incarceration will turn so readily to homosexual activity that it will almost appear to be the norm.   (source)
    established = known to be true
  • Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.   (source)
    established = proven
  • Once you've established that a book—a man's book at that, a war book—is borrowing a situation from Lewis Carroll's Alice books, anything is possible.†   (source)
    established = proven or shown
  • So we have established that we cannot use reason as a yardstick for how we ought to act.†   (source)
  • First, he wanted to establish the fact that Seth was almost dead from lung cancer.†   (source)
    establish = show, determine, or understand
  • We've established that.†   (source)
    established = proven or shown
  • DRUMMOND Look, I've established that Mr. Sillers isn't working very hard at religion.†   (source)
  • We have now dealt with the second killing, and have established the fact that no one of us can be completely exonerated from suspicion.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused to come because he didn't like her.   (source)
    established = proven
  • After long and thoughtful consideration, my assessors and I have come to the conclusion that the guilt of the second and third accused is not established, and they will be accordingly discharged.   (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
  • The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are "Real" while the spiritual elements are "subjective"; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • Here what had to be established was whether I was qualified in pocket to mix with the sons of established fathers.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • The Mary Dalton kidnapping case was dramatically cracked wide open when a group of local newspaper reporters accidentally discovered several bones, later positively established as those of the missing heiress, in the furnace of the Dalton home late today.   (source)
    established = proven
  • When he had thus established himself as a person unemotional and interested only in business, he sauntered out.   (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
  • All those things you have established in regard to morality, you and your ailing compatriot—do you seriously suppose they surprise me?   (source)
    established = shown or proved
  • "We have established a most important fact by these questions, Watson," he continued in a low voice as we went upstairs together.   (source)
    established = learned or demonstrated
  • ...the strange enervating conviction that her seducer confronted her, which had been gaining ground in Tess ever since she had heard his words distinctly, was at last established as a fact indeed.   (source)
    established = shown
  • But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • But he must go to the consul's in person, so as to establish his identity.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • Without disputing a truth so momentous, we must be allowed to consider this version of Mr. Dimmesdale's story as only an instance of that stubborn fidelity with which a man's friends—and especially a clergyman's—will sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the mid-day sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust.   (source)
    establish = show
  • So convinced I was of that woman's being her mother, that I wanted no evidence to establish the fact in my own mind.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • The living organism has the power of rapidly adapting itself, growing accustomed and inured to any atmosphere whatever, otherwise man would be bound to feel at every moment what an irrational basis there often is underlying his rational activity, and how little of established truth and certainty there is even in work so responsible and so terrible in its effects as that of the teacher, of the lawyer, of the writer….   (source)
    established = firmly known
  • The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the police made their descent on it.   (source)
    established = showed
  • Now and then that sort of enthusiasm finds a far-echoing voice that comes from an experience springing out of the deepest need; and it was by being brought within the long lingering vibrations of such a voice that Maggie, with her girl's face and unnoted sorrows, found an effort and a hope that helped her through years of loneliness, making out a faith for herself without the aid of established authorities and appointed guides; for they were not at hand, and her need was pressing.   (source)
    established = proven
  • But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon testimony entirely independent of my own.   (source)
    established = proved
  • Even say we firmly established by medical evidence the presumption of a mind disordered by fever, ...   (source)
  • Marriage is a civil affair in France, and in order to marry in an orthodox manner you must have papers which undeniably establish your identity.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • The results of schools, founded for them by benevolent individuals in Cincinnati, fully establish this.   (source)
    establish = demonstrate
  • I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.   (source)
    establish = determine or understand
  • He sat bent in feebleness, and apparently unconscious of the presence he was in, during the whole of that opening scene, in which the skill of the scout had been so clearly established.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice.   (source)
  • The principle of equality may be established in civil society, without prevailing in the political world.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • But granted a prince who has established himself as above, who can command, and is a man of courage, undismayed in adversity, who does not fail in other qualifications, and who, by his resolution and energy, keeps the whole people encouraged—such a one will never find himself deceived in them, and it will be shown that he has laid his foundations well.   (source)
    established = proven
  • This time Eragon treated the question as he would a riddle, counting the number of words, whispering them out loud to establish whether they rhymed, and otherwise examining them for hidden meaning.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me," Fiedler continued after a slight pause, "that you could still help us to establish whether any of that money was ever drawn.†   (source)
  • It is established, I think, that there is a possibility of such a thing as I have outlined occurring.   (source)
    established = known or proven
  • When there were only two pieces left to draw, it was established to whom they belonged.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • Your knowledge, or lack thereof, has been established in the quizzes you've taken this semester.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • Once we'd been in each room and established we were alone, I felt as safe as I did at home.   (source)
    established = determined or seen
  • These two sentences establish fairly unequivocally what he was alluding to.   (source)
    establish = demonstrate
  • At no time did the State establish any conversation between Steve and anyone else about a robbery.   (source)
    establish = prove or demonstrate
  • I think the doubt was established when Lorelle Henry did not identify Steve as being in the store.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • This latter is an expression that establishes the sufficiency of Scripture among literal believers.   (source)
    establishes = proves
  • You haven't established Mr. Cruz as a hostile witness.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proven
  • Among other things, the major here established the fact that she did go to the Canadian consulate.   (source)
    established = proved
  • "Theft is not established," the lawyer interrupted.   (source)
    established = proven
  • The tabloids have firmly established that she is a substance abuser.   (source)
    established = shown
  • He quickly established himself as one of the top two students in his class of six hundred.   (source)
    established = proved
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