Sentence examples for regional confidence from inspiring English sources

The sea change, Mr. Callaghan believes, came from overcoming a lack of regional confidence and embracing Southern culture, in which agriculture has always been important.

Like Ayckbourn, Godber and Thornton have the supreme importance for English regional confidence and success in that they have turned down opportunities to move to London or overseas and prefer to stay here.

If China, which has kept growing through the downturn, were to have a crisis of its own, accompanied by a sharp devaluation of its currency, the yuan, regional confidence would, at the least, take a knock.

In recent months, American officials have worked visibly to bolster regional confidence through NATO contingency planning, Patriot missiles in Poland, military exercises in the Baltic and Black Seas, the creation of strategic consultative mechanisms and forward movement on the new missile defense architecture.

At every annual Manama Dialogue of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, smaller Gulf nations speak out for the creation of a Gulf Security Conference in which both Iran and Israel would be included — a step that could greatly enhance regional confidence by bringing more transparency to these countries' activities.

Finally, the confidence image is cast into the different regions in the segmented image, and groups of fat pixels are distinguished according to their regional confidence scores.

And as a first step towards a more secure Middle East, free of all weapons of mass destruction, there needs to be serious discussion of regional confidence-building measures.

Update: Just got a riposte from EU officials that the event was more productive than this blog made it sound, and that delegations from Iran, Israel and Arab states did go beyond their talking points to exchange views particularly in sessions on regional confidence-building and on regional implementation of non-proliferation measures.

His sensitivity to religious and cultural currents in the Middle East was reflected in his second book, "Islam in Modern History" (Princeton, 1957), in which he said Muslims would regain a sense of regional self-confidence when they felt there was a revival of their faith.

"As China seeks to make sovereign land out of sandcastles and redraw maritime boundaries, it is eroding regional trust, undermining investor confidence and challenging the energy security upon which all of us depend," Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a speech Wednesday in Jakarta, Indonesia.

"As China seeks to make sovereign land out of sandcastles and redraw maritime boundaries, it is eroding regional trust and undermining investor confidence," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday.