Can you keep a secret?

Can we trust Tom to do that?

I had to trust the captain with my life.

Can we trust Tom to do that?

That he couldn t trust me with anything was written all over his face.

But there must also be enough continuity that people can trust their careers and futures to such organizations.

I can't be responsible for the future of my country if I can't trust these people.

Why not, for example, entrust an independent bureaucracy with some redistributive goals or control over the level of public investment or deficit management?

The new American operational commander in Iraq, Lt. General Raymond Odierno, says that the new efforts will be more evenhanded among Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, and American troops will stay alongside Iraqi troops in areas that have been cleared.

He hopes that with a few months, he can then withdraw American troops to the periphery of Baghdad and leave the policing of the capital to Iraqi forces.

Ho ho, you have always been the brightest amongst my grandchildren! But hearken now I have come from the nether realm to entrust thee with a task of utmost importance!

Thus, even in extreme situations like the peak of the dot com bubble in late 1999 and early 2000 it is very difficult even for those who believe that they know what fundamental values are to make large long run bets on them. It is even more difficult for those who claim to know this and who want to make large long run contrarian bets to convince others to trust them with their money.

It is even more difficult for those who claim to know this and who want to make large long run contrarian bets to convince others to trust them with their money.

Now, despite the recent revelations about briberies in the UN's oil for food program for Iraq, the world is clamoring to entrust Annan with the future of more than 20 million Iraqis who survived Saddam Hussein's depraved dictatorship.

The second argument for institutional independence is that central banks have a clear comparative advantage in dealing with monetary issues, and can therefore be trusted to pursue their targets independently.

Just as corporations have not held back from polluting the environment or employing young children on their own, she says, they can not be trusted to develop or preserve an internet that is sufficiently open and protective of free expression.

So how can Iraq create uniformed services that can be trusted to enforce the law effectively and impartially, without consideration of ethnicity, religion and gender?

The world can trust Mr. Rubin's long time deputy, the economist Larry Summers, to keep the ship afloat he knows better than anyone that timely and decisive tax cuts are the way to keep the economy from tumbling. But the most important role now lies clearly with the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mr Alan Greenspan he is essential if and when a confidence crises hit asset markets he is essential to keeping credit lines open and markets from freaking out.

The world can trust Mr. Rubin's long time deputy, the economist Larry Summers, to keep the ship afloat he knows better than anyone that timely and decisive tax cuts are the way to keep the economy from tumbling.

In remarks to Mr Putin, quoted on the Kremlin website, Mr Ivanov said it's true that in early 2012 I asked you, in a conversation, to entrust me with this very complicated post, even you could say troublesome post, for four years.