No matter: he taps confidently back up the green for his birdie, and suddenly he's got a share of the lead at -4! Up on 15, Jimenez is unlucky to see his approach fly across the green and roll off the back.
I don't know how my dad will vote come November--maybe he doesn't either, at this point--but I do recognize, from knowing him so long and so well, that there is not a candidate he can easily and confidently back in this election.
While American businesses have been much better at building global platforms and scaling them (Uber, AirBnb), the European venture industry is confidently backing more recent entrants like BlaBlaCar (intercity transportation), WorldRemit (remittances) and Funding Circle (SME lending).
A spokesperson for Delta Groove Records was moved to say of their new signing: "As the world continues to experience the loss of so many originators of the art form, you can rest assured that the future of the blues is in capable hands". Costello had many admirers who would have confidently backed the publicist's words, hardly expecting the testimonial to turn so abruptly into a memorial.
From Emile Henry Corp. in the province of Burgundy in France, the Verone line of oven-to-table clay cookware comes to the American kitchen, confidently backed by a name trusted by gourmet French cooks since 1850.
My partner at the time whispered in my ear "don't you dare" but as the auctioneer began the final countdown of passing on this piece of art, I threw up my hand right between "going twice... going three times!" Confidently sinking back into my chair there were a few pats on the back from other attendees and one of those gasps from my partner that said "Damn you but that's also why I love you".
"We'll be fine," Neal said, confidently, striding back into the room.
"We want to make 50 points this season," Eintracht Frankfurt's coach Michael Skibbe confidently proclaimed back in August.
"I'm telling you," he said confidently, leaning back in his chair, "I will run a Fortune 100 company before my journey is over".
But we'd do well to remember that these are the same people who confidently predicted back in 2010 that Greece would rapidly return to growth after taking an invigorating dose of their carefully distilled austerity medicine.
All these programs, like recruiting Wall Street women who had left the work force for a few years, or bringing banking women up to speed on what they had missed when they were out so they could confidently pop back in — would these things evaporate at the first hints of economic trouble?
