Sentence examples for weakening confidence from inspiring English sources

"The financial crisis is endangering all of the achievements of the Salam Fayyad government and weakening confidence in him.

Luke Baker writes: "Bailing-in" bank depositors would be legally difficult and carry the risk of weakening confidence in banks across the eruozone, the officials said.

In Japan, overseas acquisitions are a sign of weakening confidence in the outlook for the domestic economy, as the country deals with more than two decades of stagnation and faces long-term population decline.

Austan Goolsbee, the departing chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, pointed to weakening confidence by consumers and businesses as evidence that months of battles over government borrowing and finances had taken a toll.

Weakening confidence in the Indian economy has been compounded by some policy confusion in recent months, which has further encouraged domestic residents to move funds out of the country.

"By weakening confidence in existing U.S. weapons designs, and by inhibiting the development of new designs to respond to a changing world, the C.T.B.T., in my view, would have begun a slow erosion of U.S. and allied confidence in our stockpile," Mr. Rumsfeld has said, using the abbreviation for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, as the agreement is formally known.

If the sales go poorly, it could further weaken confidence in Europe's financial system.

"Importantly, the debt ceiling debate is still upcoming and could further weaken confidence," he said.

By itself, the 1929 crash did not so weaken confidence and consumer buying that it caused the Depression.

It believes Saunders's tenure as director of public prosecutions has weakened confidence in the judicial process.

It could also lead to trade barriers between the close neighbours, and weaken confidence in the Northern Ireland peace process.