Sentence examples for Confident expectation from inspiring English sources

Webster's dictionary defines hope as "to expect or wish... to be optimistic... to cherish a desire of good... with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable...to place confidence in, to trust with confident expectation of good".

Even more valuable, however, is a norm of generalized reciprocity: I'll do this for you without expecting anything specific back from you, in the confident expectation that someone else will do something for me down the road.

Leaders are still bringing bills to the floor in the confident expectation that they will pass.

Writer says the confident expectation that, come trouble, trained men will appear to fix it, marks our advanced age.

It is distinct from the latter two because it is directed exclusively toward the future, as fervent desire and confident expectation.

Apart from in high season, you can visit Midhowe and most of the other great Orkney sites with the confident expectation that you'll see scarcely another human being.

3 But, I think, the divinity of set purpose in the case of men who are arrogant in their calculations, changes the outcome of their confident expectations into its contrary.

Initially this step was supported by an outbreak of patriotic fervour and confident expectations of victory.

Most participants cited qualified hopes for potential benefits rather than confident expectations.

Joy Global said quarterly profits fell, but a rise in orders helped the maker of mining equipment beat expectations and issue a confident outlook for the rest of 2010.

According to social psychologists (Cacioppo et al 1997), positive-valent and negative-valent attitudes can coexist, and thus, trust which involves confident positive expectations and distrust which implies confident negative expectations regarding trusting partners, can operate simultaneously in the same individual, although from different viewpoints (Lewicki et al 1998).