Example sentences of "confidence in [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecil Parkinson , regarded as a potential successor to Mr Lawson at the Exchequer , said in a BBC television interview : ‘ You heard the Prime Minister last night say very clearly and openly that she and the Chancellor are in total agreement and that she has every confidence in him . |
| 2 | He cites the example shown by Viscount Montgomery in World War N. Laing , who fought under the famous military leader , recalls that the troops always had great confidence in him because he was very visible . |
| 3 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 4 | He is well respected and popular , as was shown when Mr Major and the Commons voiced their confidence in him earlier this year when he apologised for singing on Irish TV hours after an IRA atrocity . |
| 5 | He 'd shaken up Evans , first bawling him out then ending up with a show of confidence in him with the Havana . |
| 6 | It just fell apart once they had lost confidence in him . |
| 7 | The men spoke of him in genuinely affectionate terms , in spite of his nickname , and seemed to have great confidence in him . |
| 8 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 9 | The team needs to be in relationship with the leader , and to have confidence in him and so plant from strength . |
| 10 | M was informed that his fellow directors had lost confidence in him , that they were not satisfied with his performance and that he must improve . |
| 11 | But Peter Chegwyn , leader of the ruling Liberal Democrats , said : ‘ We have total confidence in him . ’ |
| 12 | He will declare that the economy has reached a ‘ turning point ’ , but latest polls show confidence in him and his Chancellor at an all-time low . |
| 13 | But Venables countered : ‘ Gary Mabbutt was given a new three-year contract last January which illustrates my confidence in him . ’ |
| 14 | I felt an instinctive confidence in him . |
| 15 | Mr Grist tells my colleague Bryan Rostron : ‘ A number of factors gave rise to the suspension , but the very fact that the authority itself lost confidence in him shows it was n't one particular thing . |
| 16 | Sutton pleaded with them to have confidence in him . |
| 17 | Phillips , believing that some players had lost confidence in him , quit after 2½ years in the post . |
| 18 | She thought : Well , for all that , he 's the real thing , and she allowed herself to feel confidence in him . |
| 19 | Boswell hit back : ‘ I am diverted with you , sir , ’ and Johnson laid him low : ‘ Doing such a thing makes one lose confidence in him who has done it , as one can not tell what he may do next . ’ |
| 20 | He was in Paris from June 1720 until November 1721 , but the ministry had little confidence in him and appointed first John , second Baron Carteret ( later Earl Granville , q.v. ) , as ambassador extraordinary in January 1721 , a post he did not take up , and secondly Sir Luke Schaub [ q.v. ] as ambassador the following month . |
| 21 | Doshi added : ‘ You could see the confidence in him in his first Test match . |
| 22 | ‘ You at least have confidence in him , ’ Owen said , thoughtfully frowning down at Hotspur 's vehement hand . |
| 23 | He was aware that their confidence in him was in part based on the myth that he was devoid of any of the normal human weaknesses such as fear or self-doubt . |
| 24 | The assembled kids would have more confidence in him if they continued to believe him a cop , rather that just the old man of one of their number chancing his arm . |
| 25 | After speaking for some 40 minutes , Shamir set aside his prepared text and proposed a motion that the central committee approve the political contents of his speech and express confidence in him as Likud chairman and Prime Minister . |
| 26 | An extraordinary session of the Russian Federation Congress of People 's Deputies , called in February on the initiative of Yeltsin 's conservative opponents with the intention of holding a vote of no confidence in him , ended on April 5 as a triumph for Yeltsin . |
| 27 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 28 | This explains the curious fact that so few people expected de Gaulle to return before May , but , once he had returned , so many placed their confidence in him . |
| 29 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 30 | Do you have confidence in him to conduct this operation ? |