Sentences with phrase «of little confidence»

The «Handbook» addresses a problem of little confidence in the climate science community.

You may recall me wearing another Macgraw dress earlier this year during fashion week, which I find myself consistently turning when in need of a little confidence boost.

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With these little - known ETPs as ticking time bombs and allegations of VIX manipulation, Chilton said he would not be surprised if investors lost some confidence in the system.

«The guidelines may give some a little bit of confidence, but I don't think it will give them enough to bank these folks,» Pishue said.

«A little bit of a delusional confidence helps when you can see something others can't.»

When asked if they could come up with $ 1,200 if the emergency arose, 47 percent of them demonstrated little confidence.

Whether they're little or large, these painful memories of what could have been can haunt you, making it harder to enjoy present pleasures and undermining your confidence in your decision making.

• 90 + % of current respondents have confidence in themselves entering 2018, while 79 % have no or little confidence in President Trump.

«New listings also perked up a little during the month, suggesting rising confidence on the part of sellers after recent B -20-related volatility,» they wrote.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

«Men sometimes are a little bit more vocal in their capabilities... or have a high level of confidence.

Next on the short list was the need to temper your confidence with a little humility and a fair amount of listening.

If a broker says something a little glib, and the evidence doesn't support it, that will further deteriorate and accelerate the crisis of confidence.

The GDP and retail sales data, pointing to more cautious expenditure by US households, contrasted with readings for consumer confidence, which generally showed little sign of dipping from the elevated levels seen since the US election.

Third, the Fed should make real the idea that its inflation target is symmetric by being clear that in the late stage of prolonged expansion with low unemployment it is comfortable with inflation rising a little bit above 2 percent with the confidence that it will decline when the next recession comes.

Readers will find that the Commodity Trader's Almanac provides the same type of important historical information and analysis on commodities as the classic Stock Trader's Almanac does for stocks, alerting them to little - known market patterns and tendencies to help them forecast trends with accuracy and confidence.

Collapses of large, unregulated bitcoin exchanges — such as Mt. Gox — have done little to instill confidence in the currency either.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

It appears that in the absence of annuitized wealth, retirees have little confidence in their ability to decumulate effectively.

We must, therefore, retain a little more confidence in American medicine than this book alone is likely to produce in us, but, so long as we keep that in mind, White Coat, Black Hat should force us to ask some hard questions about how best to structure the practice of medicine.

Hope, confidence, trust» in the midst of a world where there seems so little reason for hope» these are the marks of Fr.

If the life of a tailor working from home was chosen to facilitate his prayer life, it is also possible that his choice was a convenient one for an introvert with little self - confidence.

But modern man, perhaps a little intoxicated with his success in answering the hows of life, will frequently not commit himself until his whys are answered — in fact, until the Creator has taken him into his full confidence!

The confidence that they will not, it is to be feared, is based on little more than sentimental naivete and the unseemly hubris of our assumed moral superiority to «them.»

It all gets pretty confusing and tiring, and so I was thrilled to receive a copy of Dan Pedersen «s little book, Living With Confidence: From Fear To Love.

Little by little the notion grew on me that all of these slow - coming, painfully obvious insights of mine were, without exception, elaborations of the inarticulate confidence which had itself been growing in me all the Little by little the notion grew on me that all of these slow - coming, painfully obvious insights of mine were, without exception, elaborations of the inarticulate confidence which had itself been growing in me all the little the notion grew on me that all of these slow - coming, painfully obvious insights of mine were, without exception, elaborations of the inarticulate confidence which had itself been growing in me all the while.

From North Dakota Balmer travels to Camp Freedom in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he detects «precious little assurance beneath the fragile veneer of confidence.»

There is, accordingly, little trust in human social action, but great confidence that human ills can be corrected for the faithful by the bliss that will follow the cataclysmic, yet glorious, coming of the kingdom of God.

They have little confidence in the faith and solidity of the masses.

So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was in attributing too much significance to a particular political event, and so in having too little confidence in (or at least faith in) in the resilience of human nature.

The positive moral value that emerged from this conviction was a sense of joyous confidence, that transformed the little community from a mood of passive waiting to urgency in witness, fidelity in mutual service, and at least relative steadfastness in the Christian virtues.

Alt placed little confidence in the overall storyline of the Bible from Genesis through Joshua, including Abraham and family's emigration from Mesopotamia to Canaan, the sojourn in Egypt, the exodus from Egypt and the conquest of Canaan.

At the same time, there was so much to do, so much to rebuild, and the regnant American and Israeli zeitgeist allowed so little room for melancholy or lack of confidence.

We decided that making so much of the result of our measure dependent on decisions in which we had so little confidence reduced the value of the index as a whole.

Serious efforts should likewise be made to secure for foreign service in government and commerce men and women who are capable and dedicated, who will inspire confidence, respect, and affection in the people among whom they sojourn, and who will identify sympathetically with these people in attitudes and way of life rather than create little outposts of the home country in a foreign land.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

Until at last the little fellow's mistrust is melted away, she has won his confidence, and of his own free will he responds to her advances and crosses the floor to sit on her knee.

A little less confidence and a lot more nuance would be needed before some of us could be attracted by such episcopal advice.

This Gospel, then, has little confidence in the persuasive power of the miraculous.

Many are keenly aware of social stress and fragmentation; we know that our communities and personal lives are not what they were, and feel little confidence in regard to a quick return to quieter times.

After quite a few years of cooking and developing recipes, we have managed to build up a little bit of confidence and don't panic over kitchen...

I even gained some confidence to play around with the recipe a little and so today I'm sharing a whole wheat chocolate chip version of her best buttermilk pancakes.

All you need are some basic ingredients, our foolproof method, and a little dash of confidence.

The less - than - good news is that I can't tell you, with any level of confidence, how to make that pretty little Paleo glaze you see on the donuts in the photos.

After quite a few years of cooking and developing recipes, we have managed to build up a little bit of confidence and don't panic over kitchen fails or people's opinions as easily anymore.

This match is a must - win, but confidence is a little low due to our lousy results of late.

Holding is like Josh Stones, young and full of confidence, maybe a little too much confidence.

The boss said, «We conceded three last week so I changed a bit because Mustafi came back and Holding had lost a little bit of confidence.»

Our front three now have confidence in front of goal, ozil included, that's why if sanchez comes deep, either ox, ozil or theo is upfront ready to make a run unlike before when they were a little shaky in the final third.

Up until this season, however, there has been very little in the way of confidence from the football media, no matter how well the Gunners had been playing or what position in the table we were occupying.