Feeling self-assured

Usage examples of confident.

When Pearson asked him to comment on the Accra reports, the Prime Minister replied he was confident that the stories did not represent what was said.

Indeed, for all he had been through, Marshall was confident, he told Adams, that the French did not want a war with the United States.

He had believed everything was lost, but now that the Mage-Imperator had recaptured the minds and hearts of all the corrupted soldiers, he was confident the Adar could unify them into a single crew again.

Others, confident of their ability to move through the night, but not really knowing how the Rebels secured their camps, walked into Claymore-mined areas and were mangled by the deadly antipersonnel mines.

How ever, you may well enough discerne in these examples how confident many of these great Schollars were in so grosse an errour, how unlikely, what an incredible thing it seemed to them, that there should be any Antipodes, and yet now this truth is as certaine and plaine, as sense or demonstration can make it.

Mark knew perfectly well that she felt much more confident now that their first night at Appleton had passed without incident.

Confident in the strength of their mountains, they were the last who submitted to the arms of Rome, and the first who threw off the yoke of the Arabs.

When the Amazons relaxed, confident in their victory, the Atlantians concluded a secret alliance with the orgons and overthrew the women warriors.

Except for occasional spells of depression he remained confident that he would achieve his goal - not by force and scarcely by winning a parliamentary majority, but by the means which had carried Schleicher and Papen to the top: by backstairs intrigue, a game that two could play.

CIA was confident about the intelligence--it had a strong humint source inside the community of Bahraini Islamic radicals.

Yes, it was her, one of the women from her year at the Botswana Secretarial College, one of those fun-loving glamorous girls who ended up getting barely fifty per cent, and there she was, dancing with a confident and attractive man.

Finally Mary arrives in exotic Bucharest to take up her duties, confident, refreshingly candid-and dangerously innocent.

His bushcraft was nil, so rather than try to follow the trail of those who had dug the trap, he remained in the vicinity of the pit, confident that somebody would soon be by to check on it.

Pemulis is looking oddly sanguine and confident after a couple minutes futzing with the cans of water, rinsing out the oral cavity and so on.

Le Chiffre will, we are confident, endeavour on or after 15 June to make a profit at baccarat of fifty million francs on a working capital of twenty-five million.