Tom lost confidence in himself.

Their conscientiousness and integrity have restored people s self confidence.

Yet the buoyant self confidence of today s Spain is completely absent from Poland.

Let's see if you can get this one.

You are welcome if you have the self confidence and courage.

Confidence is half the battle in learning to speak another language.

So, where is the certainty about which gold is more ancient coming from?

Tom's self confidence was shattered after his boss dressed him down in front of his workmates.

And the subsequent decision by the European Central Bank to purchase more than 1 trillion ( 1.14 trillion) in eurozone governments bonds, though correct and necessary, has dimmed confidence further.

These guys are even cuter than women! ( ｪ )

A new president s first task will be to return America s economic competitiveness and self confidence. It will not be easy to rein in over spending and over borrowing, to restore the real family values of saving, thrift, responsibility, and fair reward.

A new president s first task will be to return America s economic competitiveness and self confidence.

So it goes both ways. When it comes to power, it also goes both ways. So when you feel powerful, you're more likely to do this, but it's also possible that when you pretend to be powerful, you are more likely to actually feel powerful.

India is feeling confident about itself, especially in view of its growing role in the world of high technology and a decade of successful reforms. The new government has an electoral mandate.

India is feeling confident about itself, especially in view of its growing role in the world of high technology and a decade of successful reforms.

One senses in China the birth pangs of civil society, making the introduction of the rule of law increasingly urgent.

Have Western democracies lost their self confidence and their ability to deliver a better life for their citizens?

Our confidence in ourselves, and hence in our futures, took a hit, discouraging economic risk taking.

Without political reforms, China s confidence in herself will quickly turn into disillusion, or even delusion.

WASHINGTON, DC When Ministers meet for the IMF s Spring Meeting this month they will find an institution with regained self confidence. The London G20 summit gave a strengthened mandate to the IMF, while tripling its resources.

WASHINGTON, DC When Ministers meet for the IMF s Spring Meeting this month they will find an institution with regained self confidence.

Confidence in local products boosts domestic consumption and makes exports more attractive in foreign markets.

The process can take up a large chunk of the last two years of school a mentally and physically draining time that eats into one s self confidence.

It is hard to imagine a more shameful deal.

Nothing could be more incorrect.

There is reason to feel reassured by Obama s reactions.

1. Don t feign confidence.

This confidence lay in two legal gifts he had bestowed upon himself an amnesty for his crimes and immunity as a senator for life.

Like a happy and secure childhood, Confucian civilization bestowed upon its practitioners the self confidence to meet the challenge of the West.

It is confidence that if trouble arises the government will support the banks that gives confidence in the banks and, when some governments are in a much stronger position than others, the implicit subsidy is larger for those countries.

Behind the wall of military containment, the West ate away Soviet self confidence with broadcasts, student and cultural exchanges, and the success of capitalist economics.

On the post A certeza da impunidade (The Certainty of Impunity), author Juliana Gonçalves reported

Their self confidence can be infectious.

The verdicts certainly reinforce a culture of impunity within the security services.

She has stated that although women in her province have limited opportunities, her presence as a local representative has given them hope and self confidence.

Business and consumer confidence are also likely to take a hit, further undermining demand.

She is more confident and now a leader on her own.

Absolute certainty is rarely an option.

Confidence is the ingredient of hope.

Children need stability and certainty.

Few concepts are as elastic as that of Conservatism.''

I imagined my first kiss would be more romantic.

Confidence in Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Greece is rapidly evaporating, while the stronger economies in northern Europe are doing better, although they are struggling, too.

Therefore, foreign banks, fearful of further intervention and or confiscation, refused to replenish their local subsidiaries' reserves (thus, the answer to the question, why didn't foreign banks act as a lender of last resort?).

Why should World War II have produced any confidence in the future?