Mr Xi certainly gives the self-confident impression of a man born to rule, and to safeguard the political order his father and his comrades helped to build.Merit pointsThis, like the party's near-miss with Mr Zhou, undermines claims that China is a functioning meritocracy, in which ability and experience alone dictate career paths.
Architecture is far from being the most important thing about any school, but it creates a confident first impression.
Make a confident first impression.
15 17 Because the ratios of our estimates of excess P&I between adjacent seasons, and between age groups, are consistent with previous work using different models, we are confident that our impression of the relative magnitude of P&I mortality between age groups and from one influenza year to the next year are a true reflection of patterns in influenza mortality during the study period.
Anyone who pledges to freeze the salaries of 4m workers and oblige millions to retire later than they expected can be confident of making an impression.
At Saturday's demonstration, he said, the opposition crowds were "very, very confident," and left the impression that they would take to the streets if they were unhappy with the results.
If you make sure you have some answers ready, it's harder for the judges to catch you out; it will also help to make you seem more confident, leaving a good impression with the panel.
Hazlitt's breezy, self-confident style gives the impression of a man secure enough to admit his own failings.
At Oneonta, McIntosh made an impression as a confident, serious player.
Side character lines and low "swage," a curved indentation across the bottom of the doors, give the Mazda 2 a sporty, confident air and lend an impression of movement to the wedge shape.
Your statement that John Kerry "often seemed to be more in command of his brief, more confident in demeanor" contradicts the impression made by the front-page photograph in which he sits round-shouldered and looking slightly forlorn, while President Bush takes command of the physical space as he strides out to meet the audience.
