Their self confidence can be infectious.

Self confidence is the key to success.

There is also an uninhibited self confidence about them.

Self confidence is the principal element of any great endeavor.

Of course, confidence and self doubt are not mutually exclusive.

The damage Bush s self confidence and self delusion has inflicted was magnified by his gross overestimation of America s power.

Of course, confidence and self doubt are not mutually exclusive. A country like Israel booms with economic confidence, but is full of self doubt when it comes to strategic and political considerations.

Yet the buoyant self confidence of today s Spain is completely absent from Poland.

The new confidence in Edinburgh, which is experiencing an economic boom, is self evident.

Spain s influence is, to a large extent, a result of its national self confidence.

Africa s people must be allowed to gain confidence, dignity, and a sense of self worth.

A new president s first task will be to return America s economic competitiveness and self confidence. It will not be easy to rein in over spending and over borrowing, to restore the real family values of saving, thrift, responsibility, and fair reward.

Soviet era deference to paternalistic leaders gave way to self confidence and distrust of established authority.

Still, it is important to remember that there s a positive aspect to the Party s self confidence.

Women's associations of political parties organise training events and thereby provide an opportunity for self development and self fulfilment, help women politicians to find their identity, provide self confidence, offer new contacts.

One hopes that China will derive a new measure of respect and self confidence from these astounding Games.

Musa ( Moses ) said O my Lord ! Open for me my chest ( grant me self confidence , contentment , and boldness ) .

But, over the past generation, confidence in the Kuznets curve has faded.

Public confidence in the police has notably increased over the past months.

China s soft power versus Russia s hard power the two countries choices reflect their very different levels of self confidence.

Russia by contrast is a revisionist imperialist power, whose lack of self confidence is returning to haunt the world.

Confidence is a self fulfilling prophecy, and we can, and should, manage it by direct intervention in asset markets.

China and Russia tend to relate to their respective pasts and futures in very different ways with self confidence in China s case, with self diffidence in the case of Russia.

By modernizing and democratizing at home, Turkey s politicians gained self confidence in their ability to conduct a successful regional policy.

It expressed its self confidence in new technologies, such as the wire cables of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

Paulson s record does not inspire the confidence necessary to give him discretion over 700billion.

In Europe and elsewhere, regional integration is gradually changing the political environment, increasing self confidence in societies and bringing international trust.

WASHINGTON, DC When Ministers meet for the IMF s Spring Meeting this month they will find an institution with regained self confidence.

After three decades of sustained growth and a remarkably successful policy response to the recent global crisis, Chinese self confidence is soaring.

Like a happy and secure childhood, Confucian civilization bestowed upon its practitioners the self confidence to meet the challenge of the West.

A country like Israel booms with economic confidence, but is full of self doubt when it comes to strategic and political considerations.

Democracy has been restored after half century of dictatorial disruption. Yet the buoyant self confidence of today s Spain is completely absent from Poland.

China s renewed self confidence is based on its remarkable economic prowess, which is derived not from natural resources, but from productivity and creativity.

Over the years, that system had been captured by self interested rent seekers.

Israel should develop enough self confidence in its solidity as a nation to integrate into its schools curriculum the tragedy of the Palestinian Naqbah.

To allow disorderly self correction by markets would require confidence at all levels of governance, from the central government to village administrations, and among SOEs.

Behind the wall of military containment, the West ate away Soviet self confidence with broadcasts, student and cultural exchanges, and the success of capitalist economics.

It has been her passion to help young students gain not only literary skills, but also confidence, self determination and proof of their own potential.

Wage employment allows women to get out of the relative isolation of the home or their small rural communities and gain self esteem and confidence.

The days of a self contained extremism are over. The violence can spread anywhere.

Israel had been caught by surprise, because good intelligence was misinterpreted in a climate of arrogant over confidence.

Sooner or later, the healthiest societies face up to what they have been good and bad and grow in decency and self confidence as a result.

Indeed, the French themselves are among the first to lament their bleak situation, inventing a new concept la déclinologie to describe this loss of self confidence.

Having full control over the judiciary, the intelligence apparatus, and the military makes Khamenei seem invincible against all political factions or elected officials. This will lead the regime down an increasingly autocratic path, applying more aggression at home and defying the West with greater self confidence.

Partly in response to the Soviet collapse, India embraced capitalism without reservation, which has produced spectacular economic progress. And, like the economy, India s self confidence has boomed.