It was a treat to see so much organic meat at Healthy Pleasures, but it did nothing for my confidence when I asked the butcher how I could be sure the meat was organic.
"The retailers have committed to conduct more tests and in the interests of public confidence I've asked them to publish them on a quarterly basis," said Paterson.
Whatever else it may have done, the affair doesn't seem to have dented the dancer's self-confidence: when I ask him to describe his relationship with the company he joined in 1992, he says, quite naturally, "The Bolshoi is the best in classical dancing.
To build their confidence, I often ask one of the class to join me at the board to discuss a projected figure or table from the paper while we stand together, at the same level.
When discussing confidence, for instance, I ask first what this confidence thing is that people want more of.
With as much confidence as I could muster, I asked him for a portrait.
Miranda rightly asked the question that many were asking at the conference, and she also had the confidence to come forward when I asked her to join the panel -- and I am so glad she did.
So if the ER physician had told me that the patient had returned from Liberia 23 days or 30 days earlier, with confidence, I would have asked the patient to be placed under isolation and evaluated him for Ebola, overriding the guidelines.
Please.' 'And may I ask who's calling, sir?' 'Is she, uh, in the office, then?' 'May I ask who's calling, sir?' 'This is a - disaster - 'confidential call.' 'You can count on the utmost confidence, sir, but I must ask who is calling.' 'My name, uh, is Taro Tanaka.' The duddest of dud names.
