The phrase "a confident knowledge of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a strong and assured understanding of a particular subject or topic.
Example: "Her confident knowledge of the subject made her the ideal candidate for the teaching position."
Alternatives: "a strong understanding of" or "a firm grasp of".
But the comfort of Karl May fans with May's historical inaccuracies surely comes in part from their confident knowledge of the actual history.
I wonder now if the test didn't offer a kind of pleasant middle ground for him to inhabit, a place free of confident knowledge, a place in which neither memory nor action was necessary; neither sanity nor senility, but simple, liberating play.
In order to stand out, any one of them must bring a little something extra to the table: a confident working knowledge, say, of relativity theory and atomic bomb research circa 1941 (as in Michael Frayn's play "Copenhagen") or a mastery of domestic life in late-18th-century Saxony (as in Penelope Fitzgerald's novel "The Blue Flower").
In addition, studies have indicated that the extent to which health care providers communicate with patients about supplement use is low with lack of confident knowledge on the subject a major contributing factor [ 16, 17].
If a TNM has high frequency, then it can infer confident knowledge.
So if you feel like you want to try a different distribution (so long as you are confident and have a decent knowledge of how to operate it), downloading and burning a LiveCD is always worth a try.
With the Detroit Pistons looking quicker, hungrier, tougher, better coached and more confident, an observer without knowledge of the clubs' records and reputations would have thought Los Angeles was overmatched.
For example, upon seeing an animal one has never seen before, a person with a limited knowledge of dogs may be confident that what he is seeing is a dog but less certain about the specific species.
Some parents were confident about their knowledge of a healthy diet and were therefore less eager to participate.
Or did the killer or killers have such a detailed knowledge of the area that they were confident of getting away with it?
