It was at this moment that British design acquired the confidence and daring other nations still attempt to emulate.
Many of them had not acquired the confidence or learned the techniques to avoid leaving their subjects humiliated and angry.
Once nervously defiant, and often rather fey, Eisenman has acquired the confidence of an artist who is sure of our attention.
She has described her long hair as being "like a shawl, a protection", and says she has only recently acquired the confidence to disagree with colleagues at work (Oprah tip five: "Holding Your Own").
I was looking at Vijay and saying, 'Golly, if he can do that into his late 40s, why can't I?' " Somewhere, surely, a 7-year-old watched McIlroy's poise under pressure in the final round of the Honda Classic and acquired the confidence to dream big — just as McIlroy did as a child in Northern Ireland watching the telecast of Woods's 1997 runaway Masters win.
I only took up team sports later, after I had matured and acquired the confidence to compete.
By giving us encouragement and space, she helped an awful lot of women - myself, gratefully, among them - to acquire the confidence to say the things we wanted.
His father, who had lost a leg in the war, was a Great Eastern railway controller at King's Cross station who, determined that his son should acquire the confidence to go to Oxbridge, worked three shifts a day to pay public school fees and died of throat cancer days before Mansfield failed to get into any university at all.
Can we, like every nation in Europe that has been targeted by terrorists, acquire the confidence to walk beside our fears and not let fear consume any more of our defense dollars, our civil liberties, our ability to listen to one another and to world opinion?
I think initially, my biggest challenge was overcoming the "big-shoes-to-fill" mentality, and acquiring the confidence to forge my own path.
