Sentence examples for once confident from inspiring English sources

Burnside was, for once, confident in his efforts.

WHEN many were sceptical, David Kay was once confident that some dodgy trailers found in Iraq were mobile biological facilities.

Alfred, a once confident and able, if anal-retentive man, is succumbing rapidly to Parkinson's disease and dementia.

Once confident that his package would win quick approval, he now puts the odds of success at 50-50.

Once confident he was dead, she told Wang Lijun, the city's police chief and her husband's ally, what she had done.

NEWARK, Del .— An unexpected win by a Tea Party candidate here has given Democrats hope of winning a seat that Republicans were once confident they could count in their column.

Many, but not all, of those once-confident central bankers now say they were wrong.

When she finally spoke again, her once-confident voice sounded nearly childlike.

But the new poll may give him pause, along with the once-confident Republican strategists.

UBS, like H.P. and Yahoo, is a once-confident institution still in search of a coherent strategy.

The shock led to soul-searching by a once-confident Japan which, with its economy broken, seemed adrift.