When entering a room of people in whom we repose trust, Adam Smith seems to check the supply-and-demand framework at the door.
"Paul Burrell had sought Mr Clifford's assistance and reposed his trust in him at a time when he was at his most vulnerable".
Upon appointment, American diplomats receive a presidential commission that states that "reposing special trust and confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability, I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint you..."....
"The President of the United States has reposed special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of the following officers," says the order promoting Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert G. Young to the rank of full colonel.
True clout is what you get as others measure your actions and decide where they will repose their trust.
Referring to himself as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's "spiritual son", he asked the nation "to have faith in the trust reposed by Benazir Bhutto in him".
My son had reposed an unhesitating, childlike trust in the story, and I – the supposed adult – had reposed precisely the same childlike trust in a book about which I knew nothing.
The value of GitHub lies not in the open-source software it hosts, which anyone could copy, but in the trust reposed in it by users.
The 12 standards are fairly common-sense, led off by: "Each Senator shall conduct himself or herself so as to justify the high trust reposed in him or her by the people and to promote public confidence in the integrity of the Senate".
Diodorus here places him on the Macedonian side — and in view of the continued trust reposed by Alexander in his brother, this is a more reasonable account.
