(v. i.) To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
(v. t.) To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.
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.
Entrust
Definition:
(v. t.) See Intrust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton has entrusted the job of handling her transition into the world’s most powerful job to Obama’s former interior secretary Ken Salazar , while Trump’s team is led by New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
(2) Similarly, "singularly foreign" appear mitochondria, namely the forges specifically entrusted with the respiratory metabolism.
(3) Medicine as a profession is entrusted with the responsibility to prevent disease and treat the sick--a responsibility that has both personal and social dimensions.
(4) Edwards, like most of Brown's victims, did not realise he was entrusting his money to someone who had not even passed his maths O-level.
(5) Entrusted to Moore, it would have been all over in a quick flurry of one-liners and raised eyebrows.
(6) The artist is not allowed to leave Beijing, and had to entrust the installation to collaborators.
(7) Among them was Amor Masovic, the chairman of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, the man entrusted by the state with the endless task of accounting for the dead.
(8) And I think also something like the recent Star Gazing Live on BBC2, the astronomy show stretched nightly across a single week, was an example of great, creative commissioning, where time and space, literally, was entrusted to a group of individuals and experts, at a risk it could all fall flat, but given encouragement and profile – and in the garnering, great viewing figures and rewards.
(9) Such reports were relatively prevalent among poor women, those without relatives nearby, and those willing to entrust the care of their children to nonfamily members.
(10) Referring to the armies of overseas contractors tech companies use to police social media he said, “are you going to entrust that decision to someone getting paid $2 an hour in the Philippines?” After the meeting wrapped up, the nation’s top spies demonstrated their skills of evasion.
(11) And if you must entrust data to them, make sure it's encrypted.
(12) The statement, issued by lawyers from two Chinese firms late on Saturday night and obtained by Hong Kong television, the South China Morning Post and Sing Tao newspaper, said they had been "entrusted by the family members of Wen Jiabao" but did not specify which relatives they represent.
(13) They are a party that people can easily associate with compassion for the poor and underdogs but they have never been a party that has persuaded people they are serious about wealth creation and the economy and managing public finances in a credible way ... Labour are people who care a lot but aren’t always the people you’d want to entrust with your money.
(14) Aung San Suu Kyi will entrust the party in parliament in the hands of other NLD elders, as expected, and assume a role within the cabinet,” said Nyantha Maw Lin, the managing director at political consultancy Vriens & Partners in Yangon.
(15) Together with J. Gruber, he was entrusted with the direction of the newly-founded Ohrenklinik of the University of Vienna, the first of its kind in the world.
(16) Deciding whether to entrust the internet to government control or the control of the telecommunications companies or internet service providers (ISPs) will continue to be a difficult call.
(17) Soon he'd be entrusted with an annual pay cheque of $3m for personal or professional use, even as he formulated an escape plan.
(18) Psychiatry is, among other things, the institutionalised denial of the tragic nature of life: individuals who want to reject the reality of free will and responsibility can medicalise life, and entrust its management to health professionals.
(19) Entrusting a 21-year-old who had never worked anywhere but restaurant kitchens with the administration of what, even by Treasury standards, is not an insignificant amount of money seemed a little odd to me – until it was explained that the fund, and by extension national insurance as a whole, was in the Treasury's view mostly an accounting fiction with very little relevance to the modern tax and benefit system.
(20) And it is not right for the investor according to the law, to hand over the production to those who have no right to it and they [those who have the right to it] are the ones determined in an agreement by the administration that is entrusted over the project and overseeing its organisation by the province in which the project is established.