Sentence examples for very confidence from inspiring English sources

Why would you be confident when that very confidence could get you sacked?

"For Treasury to advance funds to these institutions without requiring more transparency further erodes the very confidence Treasury seeks to restore," it said.

Yet, because women have been silenced from an early age, they lack confidence - the very confidence that would highlight their competence.

It may not seem like it, but the way we currently do redistricting presents a challenge to our very confidence in democracy.

As opposition to the Afghanistan war grows, our very confidence that we can "win" dims, threatening our confidence in military might and a history of prosecuting wars that win territories and hearts and minds.

Indeed, in the case of pMTCT, the challenge of trust is perceived as threatening the very confidence and faith that clients or patients have customarily had in nurses.

"The situation is obviously not very confidence-inspiring," Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's foreign minister, said in an interview last week.

(And not very confidence-inspiring: whatever the technological shortfalls of the old machines, the ca-chunk of that heavy lever conveyed a gravitas and finality appropriate to the task. These machines, which look like a portable shredder perched atop an outdoor trash can, do not).

"Bringing the largest VC firm in history into the round is very confidence-inspiring for customers", co-founder Vlad Tenev tells me.

It's weird because I would never say, "Why did you choose me?" It's not a very confidence-inspiring thing to say!

Last quarter the company reported moving 1 million BB10 devices, so there's something very strange (and frankly not very confidence-inspiring) about the fact that BB10 hardware doesn't seem to get a nod this time around.