(1) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
(2) Maybe, for all that this most cocksure of champions has the intangible aura only the sporting gods know, he also needs the love and reassurance of others.
(3) The relatively tough sentence was probably prompted by the cocksure defence he mounted in his five-day trial, said analysts; initially, they had predicted he would face 15 to 20 years in jail.
(4) And: "Forgive the cocksure swagger," I reply, "You did have one at the time.
(5) His two characters represent the yin and yang of the psyche: Simon nervy and jittery, James free and cocksure.
(6) After all the whole enterprise is based on more fans paying to watch a cocksure pantomime villain get his comeuppance than watch a slippery technician box his way to a points win.
(7) Thanks partly to the cocksure arrogance of Gray and Keys but, principally, to the bravery of pioneers such as Massey and Brady, there is a real chance the football industry might finally become a nicer, fairer, place for women to work.
(8) This individual was full of cocksure confidence, as if goading us to follow him along the line of posts then doubling back when we approached too closely.
(9) The cocksure young lecturer usually sat with one ankle resting on a knee and an arm casually thrown behind his chair, his smile occasionally slipping into condescension.
(10) Yet, sitting back on a delicate, gleaming-legged sofa, Italy's cocksure young prime minister could not seem more at home.
(11) Well prick away, cocksure Sharpington Sharp, because one day, you'll be so irrelevant you'll actually stop breathing.
(12) As different as they are from each other and Amstell's own sub-philosophical strand of standup, the running gag here seems to be that it's funnier to reveal a vulnerable inner monologue than it is to swagger on, cocksure, with a stockpile of one-liners.
(13) There's another article, even more embarrassing, in which I called Karadzic a "tin-pot tyrant" with a "cocksure swagger".
(14) Brash, cocksure and with a library of tabloid headlines to his name, he seemed to represent everything that the knighted Wogan was not.
(15) If she sounds like a cliche – another cocksure, ambition-driven engine who was "born to act" bravely battling the hazards of her youthful comeliness – Lawrence is enough of a surprise package to keep her interesting and likable.
Confident
Definition:
(n.) See Confidant.
Example Sentences:
(1) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
(2) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(3) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(5) But Howard added that it may take a while and he is not confident the political reality will change.
(6) Jaczko's appearance was the second show of confidence in the nuclear industry since Sunday.
(7) Subjects in the highest quartile of the insulin distribution had 6.6 times the risk of developing type II diabetes as subjects in the remaining three quartiles combined (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.14-13.7).
(8) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(9) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(10) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(11) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(12) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(13) The changes are necessary to produce confident, supportive community oriented nurses.
(14) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(15) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(16) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
(17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(18) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
(19) By 1988, nearly one-half of the public expressed confidence in the future of the Social Security program.
(20) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.