Sentence examples for earlier confidence from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hariri's earlier confidence that he would not be assassinated had slipped; the two men figured one or the other would be killed soon.

Even though both had posted better-than-expected results a day earlier, confidence ebbed in their stand-alone model, with its reliance on flighty wholesale funding.

In the past few years, agronomists have lost some of their earlier confidence that food production, even with genetically modified crops, will keep pace with rising global populations in a changing climate.

A major reason for the earlier confidence was that in the 15 years from the end of 1984 through the end of 1999, the total return of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was more than 740 percent, even after adjusting for inflation.

Alternatively, as noted earlier, confidence in No IDs could be collected in such a way as to allow one to project the ROC further to the right (i.e., by collecting a confidence rating in connection with the face that the witness believes is most likely to be the perpetrator).

Erasmus still thought that the best ancient authors pointed the way to the more complete truths of Christian faith; but his earlier confidence that careful indoctrination through study of the moral philosophers would help make a prince, or any pupil, into a truly righteous man was no longer tenable.

Slowly, frustration replaced the early confidence Davenport had.

For Reyes, early confidence boosts played a major role in why he kept writing.

A thumping header opened the scoring and gave England early confidence.

Beating the Nuggets, who are expected to contend in the Western Conference, provided an early confidence booster.

How Newcastle rued a close miss that might have given them, and not Arsenal, the early confidence boost.