But at Avoriaz there's a "baby" park alongside the bigger jumps, allowing the lily-livered among us to build up confidence without committing to the really scary stuff.
Ronald Reagan (1981 89), known as the "Great Communicator," employed televised addresses and other appearances to restore the nation's self-confidence and commit it to struggling against the Soviet Union, which he referred to as an "evil empire".
At the time that he was restoring her confidence, Mr. Evans committed his first murder.
The I.M.F. has lent its vote of confidence and committed to helping create new mechanisms for accountable government spending.
Zuckerman is, depending on whom you ask, too scrupulous or too fainthearted to countenance such playful malice; he'd prefer to be taken seriously, and yet he lacks the confidence to commit his paper wholeheartedly to this course.
That's what will send the message to give local government the confidence to commit and start to build things that they can maintain in two or three years' time.
Tuesday, in an act of confidence, Yahoo! committed $3 billion to buy back its own stock over the next five years.
Ideally, the results of these small, early studies will either give us the confidence to commit to accelerated development, or we "fail fast," ensuring resources are allocated quickly to the next wave of promising potential therapies.
However, an additional option, "confidence to commit an offence", was added to the reasons for using a substance in order to explore this possibility among the prison inmates.
Among those who reported lifetime substance use the common reasons attributed to the habit were the need to relax (26.5%), relieve stress (24.5%) and confidence to commit a crime (4.5%).
