Sentence examples for confidence tested from inspiring English sources

"This crass remark led to the reputation of the Metropolitan police service being tainted and public confidence tested.

They've got great comeback stories in Kerry Kittles and Van Horn, both of whom had their bodies and confidence tested severely the past three seasons.

Just six weeks ago, as he waited for another mayoral debate to begin in the same television studio where last night's was held, Mark Green, exuding confidence, tested his microphone with a little joke.

Bonilla will be one of 400-plus officers subjected to "confidence tests", including drug testing and polygraphs, and on Tuesday the security ministry announced a shuffle of top police posts.

But even then, the process of that confidence test is decidedly messy.

Because they have to learn to stand on their own two feet, they end up scoring higher in confidence tests.

He also promised to fire officers who could not pass polygraphs and other confidence tests.

In this study, uncertainty was quantified via a confidence test.

The result of a confidence test is classified by different indices and confidence standards, shown in Table 1.

A psychologist at Arsenal, Jacques Crevoisier, once told a story about ex-Gunners striker Nicklas Bendtner taking a confidence test and his score being off the chart.

Unfortunately many of us get tripped up in the hurdles, because we lack preparation, confidence, test-taking ability, motivation... not necessarily because we don't have potential as scientists.