Sentence examples for confidence beginning from inspiring English sources

Retailers say they are hoping to cash in on that confidence, beginning last weekend with a deluge of discounts and specials meant to draw shoppers into their stores and onto their Web sites.

But Clark Clifford, who had recently replaced Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, found that this time, two months after the Tet Offensive, with public confidence beginning to break, most of the Wise Men, including Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy, both anti-Communist hawks, had changed their minds.

The job came with a host of big-league issues to test that tremendous confidence, beginning with the Sept. 11 attacks just five days after he signed on and including a mandate to shake up an established company that had already endured a rocky leadership transition.

"I see [Vogue creative director] Grace Coddington in her Prada flats at fashion shows, and she's so relaxed and confident, and here I am tottering around in heels, and my confidence begins to ebb," says Hughes.

His confidence began to soar.

As he felt better physically, his confidence began to grow.

His new confidence began to draw people to him.

But, as the Games were about to begin, confidence began to grow.

And the team's (and the fans') overriding confidence began to look increasingly like delusion.

And as the problems pile up, Paul's confidence begins to sag.

Last spring, as a freshman, his confidence began to blossom with his speed.