Sentence examples for asserts confidence from inspiring English sources

An upright posture asserts confidence, but it also can exude hostility or a sense of uprightness.[19].[19]

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday issued a statement asserting confidence in the commissioner.

"Many of the people asserting confidence in his guilt are much more expressing confidence in our legal system and our jury system," he said.

It's hardly the rousing rhetoric of a Kwame Nkrumah calling for African integration or a Thabo Mbeki asserting confidence and hope about the continent.

Less than half (48.3%) believed that addressing smoking was part of their responsibility, and half (50%) asserted confidence in supporting patients in a cessation attempt.

That wasn't about nationalism, but about asserting the confidence of its own culture.

At a news conference later, representatives of several Portland mosques asserted their confidence in law enforcement officials' actions so far.

In October 2006 Gordon Brown, then chancellor of the exchequer, asserted with confidence that "many charities and donors have been and are being exploited by terrorists".

I think if you had told people back in, say, 2007 that this would happen, they would have asserted with confidence that generating a faster recovery would be at the top of the political agenda.

"In the light of ensuing public concern," Price writes, "while I can hardly claim that all the memories recorded here are unerring, I can assert my confidence that they bear a high resemblance to actual happenings in my life".

In the face of all the unknowns, it would have been irrational and unconvincing to assert full confidence about the eventual outcome.One thing that would have helped in this crisis, and what might help in future crises, is a more public recognition that uncertainty is intrinsic.