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kon fuh duhns

  • n  freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
    after that failure he lost his confidence
  • n  a feeling of trust (in someone or something)
    I have confidence in our team
    confidence is always borrowed, never owned
  • n  a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable
    public confidence in the economy
  • n  a trustful relationship
    he took me into his confidence
  • n  a secret that is confided or entrusted to another
    everyone trusted him with their confidences
    the priest could not reveal her confidences
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  • Barack Obama in msnbc.com
    I say to the American people, this is a change in personnel, but it is not a change in policy,Obama said. "He has worked closely with the Afghan and Pakistan governments and with all our partners in the region. He has my full confidence...
  • David Villa in The Canadian Press
    We never lost our confidence,Villa said. "We know the potential we have and what we can give."
  • David Petraeus in Washington Post
    We're engaged in a contest of wills. Our enemies are doing all that they can to undermine the confidence of the Afghan people,he said.

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