Sentences with phrase «more confidence at»

Partly to give myself more confidence at interviews, and partly to get rid of a distraction, I went over my portfolio to tune it up.

It helps provide enhanced directional stability when cornering, giving you more confidence at turns — even in the rain and snow.

It will give you more confidence at bedtime.

They are playing with much more confidence at present and are very much more organised, and will be tough to break down.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«The more you value yourself, especially at work, the more you build confidence,» she says.

Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.

With more information, accuracy didn't improve at all, but the experts» confidence in their predictions was much higher.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

«And although the law required no reason at all to fire an FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly the FBI, by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader,» he continued.

«The AIC experience has left a very bad taste with a lot of people, and I think it's even more of an uphill battle than it would be for a startup, to rebuild that confidence, if it can be done at all.

This discount (cash adjusted) becomes even more compelling given our confidence that Apple will grow earnings per share at a rate well in excess of the S&P 500 for the foreseeable future.

«What I think is more relevant for most people is that we've got to take a page from those confident players» playbooks and see that we've got to learn to kind of step up that level of confidence, particularly in those high intensity situations like interviewing, at networking events or conferences,» she says.

At times, I even practice my delivery out loud, so I can speak with more confidence.

Look, having self - confidence is important but as your business grows, you have to bring in people more talented than you at what they do.

Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

Until take - home pay picks up, higher consumer confidence is unlikely to translate into more dollars at the cash register.

The violent ups and downs, said Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale, may in turn undermine confidence in the economy, and the weakness in the economy can lead to more strident politics — all of which feeds the volatility loop.

Apple also gave better projections for the third quarter than expected, giving investors more confidence in the company's long - term health at a time when its top smartphone rival, Samsung, said it expects demand for its high - end phones to soften.

Jesse Edgerton, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, said the Fed's increased confidence was likely to translate eventually into more interest rate increases than the three Fed officials predicted.

Elsewhere, a leading quarterly survey of US chief financial officers showed confidence at its highest level for more than a decade.

Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said stronger growth in the second quarter «should give Fed officials more confidence that the recovery is gathering steam as the fiscal drag begins to fade.»

«For the Fed, the underlying momentum is more important in terms of policy decisions, and that looks to be strong, supported by a tightening labor market, rising incomes and high consumer confidence,» Gregory Daco, head of U.S. macroeconomics at Oxford Economics, told Reuters.

Specifically, the FOMC is opting to retain its easy monetary policies, but undertake no new initiatives at this time, Perhaps the Fed went this more conservative route in view of the somewhat better news out on the economic front over the past few weeks, notably the generally improving housing metrics, the pickup in June's personal income, and the surprising uptick in the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for July issued yesterday.

One of them is that deep into an expansion, higher economic confidence reduces the likelihood that many markets will panic at the same time, and means market - specific stories are often bigger drivers than the more binary question of «recession, or not?»

By shifting FX conversion to the point when the trade is executed and performing it at the Exchange level rather at the broker level, we believe you can trade with more certainty and confidence and receive better fills for your cross-border trades.

But at the end of the day, the BigCommerce cart is able to draw more traffic (SEO and gift cards), encourage consumer confidence (reviews and ratings), and visually appeal to onsite customers (product option customizability).

A single tool, or at least fewer tools, from which you draw data will give you more power so you can speak with confidence about what you're working on, how long it will take, and whether or not you can take on a new project.

It is great that you have confidence in the company you work for and want to buy more stock, but if you are holding too much stock and the company suffers financial problems, then the stock price inevitably falls thereby causing your retirement plan balance to be at risk.

At the same time, the recovery has become more broadly based over the recent period, with business investment now expanding, business confidence high and profits rebounding strongly.

It might take you a few hours per post when you're starting but by a few weeks in and beyond you'll start pushing them out at a much faster pace, with more confidence, and at a higher level of quality.

The Gallup research indicates that American confidence in all societal institutions in general are at all - time lows, although confidence in religion has declined more quickly than others.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

Although racism at Garrett and in Evanston was not as obvious as in Arkansas, I believe that it was much more vicious, especially in terms of the structural brutality inflicted upon black dignity and self - confidence.

But my time at St. Andrew has taught me that small congregations can more easily go through processes of spiritual transformation than larger ones and can be made «free for real missionary adventure and apostolic self - confidence,» in Rahner's words.

«At the beginning and end of all our ways is One in whose steadfast will and purpose there is indeed no shadow of turning and in whom all our confidences have their unshakable foundation... In his inmost actuality he is «pure unbounded love», pure personal relation to others, who has no other cause than the ever more abundant life of the creatures of his love.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

Faith is the world's worst way of making decisions, which is why it's the only one religions have to rely on, because if you used any of the more reliable methods (like looking at the evidence, or logic, or confidence in something based on its past track record), you'd laff your head off at such nonsense and even more so at the solemn, self - righteous credulity of its proponents.

If fundamentalist Christians look at the scriptural material as generally inerrant, many more liberal Christians have all too often thought that by proper analysis it is possible to acquire information about the so - called Jesus of history and then to speak with confidence about what he said and did and even about what he believed about himself and his vocation.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

I feel more than ever that I have only made a few steps on the long road of progress; but I look at its length without dismay, for I have confidence that the day will come when all my efforts shall be rewarded.

It might've been the long, cold winter or just gaining more confidence in the kitchen but I find myself cooking more and more and whereas we used to eat out most of the weekend, we are eating at home a lot more.

«Fonterra is coming out the other side of a major restructure to its business and that's given the board confidence to take on more capacity in what we're good at, and they are areas where MG has some overlapping assets,» he said.

Major retailers such as Woolworths and Wesfarmers may be trading at their best levels for a year and Coca - Cola Amatil is at a record high, but retail investors remain reluctant to sink more money into the market until consumer confidence improves.

Tesco may have waded in to rescue UK dairy farmers last week, but confidence in the sector is at its lowest point since 2004 and more producers intend to quit in the near future, a new survey says.

Major retailers may be trading at their best levels for a year and Coca - Cola Amatil is at a record high, but retail investors remain reluctant to sink more money into the market until consumer confidence improves.

Continued positive results, an alignment with management's new brand strategies and confidence in the future at Cicis has spurred an acceleration in newly executed franchise development agreements that will result in more than 70 new restaurants being added to the brand's nationwide network through the end of 2017.

Now that you know some gelatin basics, you can start using it at home with more confidence.

As a result of his poor form and lack of first - team opportunities, Calum has really struggled for confidence, so a stint back at St. Mary's can really help him out in that regard as he is likely to see a lot more first - team opportunities.