Sentence examples for confident place from inspiring English sources
Mr. Hu takes over a country experiencing dazzling economic and social change, one that is taking a more confident place in world affairs.
When Igor Stravinsky wrote "Threni," a musical setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for chorus, orchestra, and vocal soloists, in 1957-58, the United States was a confident place: abundantly prosperous at home while holding the line against Communism abroad.
That sense of cultural affinity has facilitated Turkey's entry into the region, as has the successful model of Mr. Davutoglu's Justice and Development Party, whose deeply pious leaders have won three consecutive elections, presided over a booming economy and inaugurated reform that has made Turkey a more liberal, modern and confident place.
It's still not the safest city in the world – I was warned to stay away from Copacabana and Santa Teresa at night – but, boosted by the booming economy and double feelgood factor of hosting the World Cup Finals and the Olympics – Rio feels a far happier, more confident place.
Paradoxically, this was also the America of Walt Disney and Fred Astaire; of Norman Rockwell covers for the Saturday Evening Post; of homespun decency, rock'n'roll and the music of Aaron Copeland; of the Beat poets and the Kennedy campaign for the presidency and a new Camelot in Washington; a happy, confident place – although you might not know it from reading Silent Spring.
This is undoubtedly a prosperous, efficient, confident place.
They are lively and confident places, with jobs and training for the young and leadership from respected and respectable man and women in their 40s, who have learned the punishing lessons of a lifetime's struggle against impossible odds, and are striving to give their children a taste of the "normality" they never had.
NATIONS, like people, occasionally get the blues; and right now the United States, normally the world's most self-confident place, is glum.
But it is a postindustrial relic, a doomed shadow of the muscular, self-confident place where Pat Barker was born, at a time when factories and steel mills ran round the clock, and the Luftwaffe guided their bombs by the glow of the blast furnaces.
More than Bondi Beach or even the Sydney Opera House, two other famous attractions, "the bridge", as everyone calls it, seems to symbolise Sydney's self-confident place in Australia and the wider world.As with the Empire State building in New York, which dates from the same period, construction of the Harbour Bridge provided thousands of jobs in the Great Depression.
In Guildford, a middle-class commuter town south of London, they add up to just £263.The fate of these once-confident places is sad.
