Sentence examples for forfeit the confidence from inspiring English sources

"If we turn this war, which was heralded to the world as a war of humanity, in any sense into a war of conquest, we shall forever forfeit the confidence of mankind," Schurz wrote President McKinley in the spring of 1898.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

A century and a half ago, Abraham Lincoln wisely observed, "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

To Eurosceptics, the blame rests with the EU: the CFP has forfeited the confidence of fishermen and the public (who are disgusted that quotas force fishermen to chuck dead fish back into the sea).

(There is something delightfully Brechtian about the concept: The people have forfeited the confidence of the scientific establishment and must therefore be replaced).

The poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote:... the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts.

Others forfeit the royal treatment.

They may eventually forfeit the wriggle room.

He also agreed to forfeit the weapons".

The Giants will forfeit the game".

I decided to forfeit the football scholarship.