Sentence examples similar to confidence surviving from inspiring English sources

But he looked nervous in the opening exchanges as Selby, whose confidence survived the replacement of his cue tip, took control and enjoyed breaks of 120, 91 and 76.

Even those aids to sentiment have only lifted the confidence index by 14 points compared with the 86 point decline it previously suffered (according to Capital Economics).I would like to see consumer confidence survive the test of some really bad news (like a major corporate bankruptcy) before I was confident that the bottom had been reached.

Being placed in an unfamiliar environment forces you to use your initiative and develop self-confidence – surviving 10 days of camping in the wild is something that three years of university could never provide.

Those who might have been called "dreamers" in the rigidly scientific, left-brained world of a generation ago are possibly the creative innovators of today (if their self-confidence survived the school system).

Banks need confidence to survive, and confidence in the financial system was non-existent at the time.

At the Romney campaign headquarters in Boston, his advisers exuded a palpable sense of relief and a growing air of confidence after surviving the first phase of artillery from Mr. Obama's team in Chicago.

(Agence France-Presse) CINK HOLDS ON TO LEAD: Stewart Cink shot 69 and showed some new confidence yesterday, surviving an up-and-down third round to hold the lead at the MCI Heritage in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Cink, the 2000 champion at Harbour Town Golf Links, talked Friday about how fears of growing success and potential failure plagued his golf game the past two years.

Some other parts of the law, which made it an outlier compared with other states, Senator Taylor said he had little confidence would survive anyway.

Only after a week did awestruck people start communicating with each other, building mutual confidence to survive, and discussing response strategies.

The next fortnight will show whether the UN process still commands enough confidence to survive is heading for deadlock, like the Doha trade negotiations The global climate talks are a straightforward negotiation, which means all sides are out for the best deal.

Not so much for the results, for all thisSaturday could be the afternoon when Frankel confirms himself as one of the finest and fastest thoroughbreds ever foaled, but rather as a moment when a sport that was founded in the 18th century discovered the confidence to survive – and thrive – in the 21st.