The chicken coop documents were very damaging to Iraq, showing a far larger biological program than the Iraqis had ever acknowledged, and profoundly shaking the confidence of inspectors in all Iraqi assurances not backed by evidence.
They gave me solace and joy, peace and disturbance, doubt and assurance; they shook my world.
Uncertainty around Brexit is shaking the confidence of EU citizens working in the NHS despite repeated assurances from ministers and leaders, while the care sector will find it even harder to recruit to low-paid jobs.
A banking union would also give savers more confidence that their insured deposits are truly guaranteed, an assurance that was deeply shaken by what happened in Cyprus.
For Mr. Lepage, reaching that point is a simple question of confidence: "The only thing that really shakes the basis of Quebec's assurance in its identity is the fact that it's a very, very young society.
Those assurances were shaken Sunday, however, by treatment of a group of about 40 members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
His self-assurance was shaken enough to where he solicited advice from countryman Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners.
"Books often feel like restorative, reliable old friends — and although Heti's book hadn't forfeited its material qualities, my assurance of its fixity had been shaken".
Every time I shook his hand, I felt something powerful — an almost electric assurance that this was a man of God.
This "trunk-shake" can be compared to a human handshake in that it may be associated with similar functions such as assurance and greeting or as a way of assessing strength.
Then, moments later, prosecutors said, he gave the electrician his personal assurance that no one else from the M.T.A. would ever try to shake him down again, telling the electrician, "If that ever happens, let me know".
