Sentence examples for destruction confidence from inspiring English sources

However, as Cebes points out (88b), unless Socrates can establish that the soul is altogether exempt from destruction, confidence of survival in the face of death is misplaced.

Across town, along the crowded streets of the poor Shiite neighborhood devastated by Israeli bombs during the summer war, there is despair over the destruction, but confidence in the growing power of Lebanon's Shiites.

As John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out in The Great Crash: 1929, a key cause of the 1930s Depression was the severe contraction of consumption, due to a negative wealth effect, lost wages, and a destruction of confidence.

"The toughest part about being so different is the total destruction of your self-confidence.

Given the difficulty in finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, such confidence may be hard to come by.

Mr. Obama has it within him to stand up to the forces of governmental destruction and begin restoring confidence in his leadership.

While the apparent use of a work of fiction as a crib sheet for the delicate process of negotiating away weapons of mass destruction might not inspire confidence in Mr Reagan's grasp of geo-political detail, Mr Clancy was at least highly rated as an observer of Cold War technology.

09.13.01 The Twin Towers' destruction shook America's confidence in supertall office buildings.

It could also be argued that traders would be better able to sell absurdly complicated financial weapons of mass destruction after taking a confidence-boosting narcotic such as cocaine.

"The Israeli government has approved a confidence-destruction measure," Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee, said in a statement.

Not only do these senseless killings deprive families of loved ones, they have deep-seated implications as the effects ripple through families and communities, leading to further radicalization of younger black males and the destruction of any potential public confidence among black and brown people in policing.