Sentence examples for dangerous confidence from inspiring English sources

Its so-called "British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" is an incredibly dangerous confidence trick.

The good doctor's conversion to the Austrian school of economics turned him into a crusader who has come to see the operations of the Fed indeed the entire banking system, with its reliance on paper money no longer backed by gold as a dangerous confidence trick.

Every one of the millions who have read The Secret History has the delicious illusion of being admitted to the most dangerous of confidences.

Two lesser dignitaries are the subjects of master portraits: the military commander the Duke of Alba, whose iron-fisted rule of Flanders the prince in his starry-eyed delusions proposes to supplant with a tolerant regime of his own; and Lerma, captain of the royal bodyguard, who finds ways to reconcile his loyalty to the king with dangerous, unsolicited confidences to the prince.

And that's dangerous territory for confidence in the Court".

It would force European powers to pull their forces as well, risking a dangerous collapse in confidence among Afghans and giving a boost to the Taliban, which remain a potent threat.

It is precisely the kind of surreptitious commitment, made without Congressional advice or con sent, that has opened a dangerous gap of confidence between the executive and legislative branches over a wide range of foreign policy matters.

Is he building a compelling picture of what a Milibandist society might look like or is the party's perpetual cycle of policy reviews revealing a dangerous lack of confidence and absence of unity in what it truly believes?

As well as sexual politics, the book looks at race, friendship, body image, Orange Is The New Black and competitive Scrabble (Gay is a keen player and writes that she approaches this as she does her work, "with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem").

This result would imply about 60 Tories voting against their whip, and a dangerous loss of confidence in the PM among his troops.

13 The immediate threat of funding stagnation, or even contraction, belies an even more dangerous loss of confidence by the global public based on media emphasis of the know limitations of established control technologies that still "do what they say on the tin" but no more.