Safalta Bhandari, a slight but confident 17-year-old from Sindhupalchowk, is taking matters into her own hands.
He hopes to mediate a ceasefire coupled with agreement to form a unity government, but prospects for a deal appear slight with both sides confident they can win the war.
The Somerset spinner Jack Leach revealed he was "as shocked as anyone" when the legality of his bowling action was called into question but is confident a slight modification will prove to be a benefit as his career progresses.
"He's a fairly slight, very serious, very confident-looking guy who moves with quiet authority," Mr. Fowler said in a telephone interview from Canada.
The truth of the matter is that the Chinese leaders are sensitive to slight, but also tough and confident characters.
(The logistics around hand-cracking ice — from the timing to the possibility that women in silk tops could be sprayed with shards — has Ms. Lambert's team in a slight funk, but she's confident that a solution will arise in the next few weeks).
That would have been true even for someone of George Osborne's elevated stock, but these days we are far too liberal about such slights – meaning the chancellor feels confident he can safely blame the country's economic woes on the House of Windsor (when he can't pin it on Ed Balls or the Greeks).
But even as Governor Paterson found himself publicly explaining and practically apologizing for his decision to pass over Mr. Cuomo, people around the attorney general said that far from feeling slighted, he actually seemed upbeat, confident that his own standing had been enhanced by Mr. Paterson's ungainly selection process.
Jared was the gay man I wanted to be: quick with a quip, confident in his charms, slight enough to wear plaids and horizontal stripes.
Although the bookmakers have Juli Inkster's Americans as the slight favourites, Europe should be quietly confident of retaining the trophy.
