Example sentences of "[noun] of confidence in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He inspired , I think , a great deal of confidence in the country and indeed among his colleagues , and deservedly so . |
| 2 | I have a great deal of confidence in the management team on the clinical side at Basildon and Orsett . |
| 3 | But the public still had a good deal of confidence in the armed forces and the police , although both were held in less regard than they were ten years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 5 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
| 6 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 7 | The achievements of the past 10 years will be jeopardised not only by the present bout of inflation , but even more by a general loss of confidence in the Government 's ability to deal with it . |
| 8 | But in Britain , with its strong governmental impulse as created in the Victorian period in the aftermath of the 1855 Northcote-Trevelyan report , with the British faith in the educated , patrician ‘ expert ’ which kindled the support of American progressives and ‘ genteel reformers ’ in the previous century , the decline of planning and the loss of confidence in the effectiveness of social engineering had a deep cultural impact . |
| 9 | Their uniform ‘ acted like a red rag to a bull ’ on the population ; people had lost all respect for them held them to blame for their plight , and vented their anger o At the beginning of September , the SD agency in Kitzingen felt that the loss of confidence in the Party and the regime 's leadership was rapidly moving towards a dangerous level . |
| 10 | The result has been a loss of confidence in the purity of our tapwater . |
| 11 | In addition to doubts over the ability of the system to survive , there is a noticeable loss of confidence in the basic institutions of the system itself : corporations , trade unions and governments . |
| 12 | The loss of confidence in the basic economic institutions of Western societies is based on the view that the results of the system bear little relation to certain norms of justice . |
| 13 | This is not only because law and morality are related , but also because some costs ( eg. the loss of confidence in the markets ) are incapable of being quantified . |
| 14 | In the new global situation , there is a general loss of confidence in the ability of any agency to predict or control the future course of world events . |
| 15 | It was a risky game : played too often , it caused widespread loss of confidence in the currency , hoarding , and commercial bottlenecks . |
| 16 | On the American side the decisive development had been the loss of confidence in the radical regime of Mohammed Mussadeq as the best defence of Iran against communism . |
| 17 | Cureton 's entry opens with a detailed and well-referenced history of stylistics , but suggests that it may have been suffering from a loss of confidence in the recent past . |
| 18 | But the increase in crime became a subject of hot debate when the area 's MP Derek Foster said people were expressing a loss of confidence in the police . |
| 19 | The loss of confidence in the mid-1970s is usually put down solely to the oil crisis . |
| 20 | Insider trading may also lead to a significant loss of confidence in the Stock Exchange , particularly amongst small investors . |
| 21 | Tom King claimed that the proposal could generate two to three thousand jobs , especially in the construction industry , as well as having other beneficial effects in expanding the local economy : ‘ The injection of £400 to £500 million of private capital would be a major demonstration of confidence in the province and the largest private investment ever made ( sic ) ’ . |
| 22 | Will he also accept that his demonstration of confidence in the plant 's high quality power unit is most important for the company when it seeks orders abroad ? |
| 23 | ‘ A renewal of confidence in the UK will only take place through a change in Government policy , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The signing also indicates a renewal of confidence in the Port of Liverpool since ACL is still actually for sale . |
| 25 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 26 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 27 | Reuter adds : The Soviet parliament yesterday approved a government programme to rescue the country 's ailing economy in what was a virtual vote of confidence in the Prime Minister , Mr Nikolai Ryzhkov . |
| 28 | We go in search of the Editori del Grifo , a young team of publishers said to have moved from Rome back home to Montepulciano as a vote of confidence in the old place ; they have moved again , however , and we have run out of the steam needed to look for their new office . |
| 29 | We have asked him to lodge a formal vote of confidence in the government when the Congress resumes today , ’ one source said . |
| 30 | In one sense , this can be read as the Eastern District 's response to the Ashby Committee 's vote of confidence in the WEA little more than three years before . |