Sentence examples for catastrophic confidence from inspiring English sources

Eichmann's stupidity was amplified by a catastrophic confidence of serving the right cause.

That didn't stop the attack having a catastrophic effect on confidence in the currency.

The present financial crisis springs from a catastrophic collapse in confidence.

Higher interest rates, more business failures, sharper rises in unemployment, and potentially even a catastrophic loss of confidence and the end of the recovery.

The credit crunch had been rumbling on for more than a year but Lehman Brothers' collapse in September was to have a catastrophic impact on confidence.

If they were not implemented, he warned, Britain would experience "higher interest rates, more business failures, sharper rises in unemployment and potentially even a catastrophic loss of confidence and the end of the recovery.

Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers chief executive The credit crunch had been rumbling on for more than a year but Lehman Brothers' collapse in September was to have a catastrophic impact on confidence.

A leading Catholic reform group has sent an open letter to the Pope warning of a "catastrophic loss of confidence" in the Church because of the "destructive" forces of clericalism.

Every attack which it fails to prevent is a blow to its standing". In Iraq, the insurgents have presided over a catastrophic collapse in confidence in the Americans and a concomitant fall in their power.

The player developed a reputation for catastrophic collapses in confidence ("if there were a sizeable crowd watching she might choke on a teaspoonful of cod liver oil", remarked one tennis writer) and for seven years the tennis press speculated over whether Mauresmo would be the most talented tennis player never to win a grand slam.

Osborne prefaced his announcements by telling MPs that unless the government took concrete measures to tackle debt, the consequences would be "higher interest rates, more business failures, sharper rises in unemployment and a potentially catastrophic loss of confidence and the end of the recovery".