It's a social awkwardness.

You gotta push through shyness and self doubt.

Overconfidence tends to be as destabilizing as a lack of it.

1. massive uncertainty about the size of the losses.

Insecurity about jobs is a defining characteristic of our age.

His strength today foreshadows greater uncertainty in Iran s future.

The main uncertainty in life the destination of one s immortal soul nudges one toward morality.

But its very dynamism its creative destruction tends to produce great uncertainties.

These insecurities are in addition to those that have long confronted Americans.

Despite uncertainty about Putin s intentions, that prize is not out of reach.

At the same time, lack of confidence on the part of a country, a culture, or a civilization can be just as dangerous.

Eventually, however, the uncertainty created by these CDOs nearly brought down the entire US banking system.

The resulting economic uncertainties are compounding years of inadequate growth and deteriorating public debt dynamics.

This same lack of confidence is behind the potentially explosive situations in Algeria, Tunisia, and even Morocco.

Dwelling on performance anxiety may cause hesitation or a loss of inspiration.

In Ecuador, judicial uncertainty and delays in contract enforcement deter investment.

In both cases, insecurity resulted not from an external threat, but from top policymakers own actions.

For companies, renegotiations mean uncertainty and possible interruptions of production and revenue.

Above all, uncertainty has become the norm, in contrast to the gray but predictable future offered by the old communist regimes.

The announcements to date simply increase uncertainty without telling the public anything useful.

Nobody likes uncertainty we all wish the experts knew exactly what will happen.

Some of the comparatively milder reactions on social media express confusion and hesitation toward the announcement.

Globalization and technological transformation have deepened interdependence, and yet insecurity, inequality, injustice, and intolerance remain undiminished worldwide.

It is unlikely that cajoling Western elites will mitigate the deep seated uncertainty in the US and Europe about China s rise.

This uncertainty has been at the root of demands for the state to intervene and protect the individual against the market's mercilessness.

By contrast, grand coalitions are, in the long term, likely to raise doubts about the system and encourage radical groups.

1. Don t feign confidence. Nobody likes uncertainty we all wish the experts knew exactly what will happen. But we cope better with candidly acknowledged uncertainty than with false confidence.

Even if the result would have been longer term stability, the immediate political consequences were too unpleasant. In adverse economic circumstances, governments felt vulnerable and unsure, and they could not afford to alienate public support.

There is always some monopoly power, insiders have more information than outsiders, ignorance and uncertainty are pervasive, and expectations are frequently disappointed.

There has always been uncertainty about the best design of a banking system, and there has always been competition between different sorts of banking regulation.

In adverse economic circumstances, governments felt vulnerable and unsure, and they could not afford to alienate public support.

Education policymakers, indeed, are hesitant about religious education being mandated from above.

This not only hampers restructuring, but also makes firms hesitant to hire and inhibits innovation.

These factors largely explain the Taliban s violent revival, and the uncertainty of many Afghans about whom to support.

The risk premium could rise, for example, if investors became uncertain about whether Kuroda would adhere to his commitment.

In our home in Hanover, Germany, my partner Esmeralda and I experienced the gamut of emotions anticipation, expectation, happiness, uncertainty, tears, euphoria.

Historically, the resilience of family firms was rooted in the fact that they were good at managing trust when other institutions the state or the market were shaky. The upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars produced great uncertainty, but they also produced business dynasties such as the Rothschilds.

The upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars produced great uncertainty, but they also produced business dynasties such as the Rothschilds.

While there is still some uncertainty as to the best assessment approach, we recommend that clinicians use a standardized, validated method.

European competition law in particular allows policymakers to intervene at will, increasing uncertainty, damaging wealth creation and consumer well being.

The blogger expressed concern about the way the members of the sect may have been treated while detained and wondered why they had chosen Trinidad as their in transit point.

But such uncertainty, common in times of transition, should not overshadow what the end of the Blair Bush era in Britain holds in store.

The combined effect of many different financial innovations will be to blunt the impact of capitalist risk on our individual lives, helping to reduce economic uncertainty and inequality.

In today s inter connected global economy, uncertainty about the US economic outlook increases one day, and Dutch consumer confidence, for example, takes a tumble the next.

So, even before the recent reports of North Korean leader Kim Jong il s health problems, North Korea was already a country marked by growing uncertainty.