Or has democracy itself been adapted to accommodate earlier suspicions and hostility?

We in the council wish to make amends for our earlier suspicions of you.

She had a strong conviction that her earlier suspicions had been the right ones.

I just now spotted this article at News.com, which confirms my earlier suspicions.

Even if Chet had been unable to remember the shooting, he could have filled her in on his earlier suspicions.

He felt a quiet satisfaction, almost certain that his earlier suspicions had been right.

No one told him that he was echoing Indiana's earlier suspicions.

Close up, the doctor could confirm his earlier suspicion: he would have to saw through bone.

Last time we met, you heard me talk about my earliest suspicions.

Over the years, much of this early suspicion fell away.