While the film is patchy, Bullock's brand is confidently crisis-free.
The country's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared confidently that "Bush's crisis" in the United States would not affect Brazil.
At the outset of the financial crisis, Mrs. Merkel confidently called it an American problem, and resisted as much as possible calls from across the Atlantic for even more government spending to kick-start economic growth.
BERLIN -- Not long ago, German politicians and journalists confidently declared that the euro crisis was over; Germany and the European Union, they believed, had weathered the storm.
Data revealed that people favor leaders who lead by example and handle crises calmly and confidently -- all characteristics that the study also found to be more common in female leaders.
A wake-up call, perhaps, to those who confidently declare that the worst of the crisis is over.
One wonders, not very confidently, how later administrations would have handled the crisis.
In early 2011 Erskine Bowles confidently declared that we would face a fiscal crisis within around two years unless something like the Bowles-Simpson deficit plan was enacted, and Alan Simpson chimed in to say that it would be less than two years.
In 1842 43, Bauer confidently predicted the triumph of republican principles and institutions, though this confidence waned as the political crisis deepened.
Not long ago, Indian leaders confidently predicted this country would emerge largely unscathed from the global economic crisis.
In "Union Atlantic," swiftly and confidently, Haslett unwinds the ball of yarn that is the global financial crisis to reveal its core: a knot of ineluctable yearnings and individual needs.
