Sentence examples for western confidence from inspiring English sources

First, he had to just coexist with the Ibatan, a task he approached with characteristic Western confidence.

The last decade has shown us that our western confidence in globalisation and the convergence of cultures and communities was vastly exaggerated.

But what it does is recall an almost forgotten time - when war in Iraq with international backing signalled the high-water mark of western confidence and a Pax Americana, just after the fall of the Berlin wall and the toppling of Ceausescu, a time when, with all seriousness, we were talking about the end of history.

To say we helped to create Isis is not to rationalise its savagery, or to indulge in the self-loathing that has crippled Western self-confidence since 9/11.

In the margins of international conferences such as the recent Davos forum, even American officials mutter despairingly about their own "dysfunctional" political system.A swing not a seesawTwo dangers arise from this loss of Western self-confidence.

£80 for two with wine Letter from the editor: Events in Mali have showed that Islamist terror is spreading its tentacles far and wide To say we helped to create Isis is not to rationalise its savagery, or to indulge in the self-loathing that has crippled Western self-confidence since 9/11.

They will move into any power vacuum left by the collapse of Western self-confidence.

On September 6th China issued a white paper on its "peaceful development" (ie, rise), its first on the topic since 2005, well before financial crisis crushed Western economic confidence and propelled China even more to the fore in international terms.

It underpinned western prosperity and confidence until recently.

The Ifo economic research institute's index of western German business confidence climbed to 91.5 from 90.5 in April.

The Ifo economic institute, which surveys 7,000 companies, said its index of western German business confidence declined to 87.1 from 87.3 in November.