Such a retreat from reform would only damage confidence and cost the region much-needed foreign investment.
He said it had "the potential to once again damage confidence in the ombudsman's office".
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The worst case is not that the tests are merely irrelevant, but that they actively damage confidence.
"A-levels are a well known and well respected international brand and it would be foolish to damage confidence in them for no compelling reason, " said ASCL leader Brian Lightman.
But they are tiny (the Baltics have a population of barely 7m), so letting them adopt the euro ought not to set an unwelcome precedent for others nor should it damage confidence in the single currency.
There are fears that a Cornwall Council review into Newquay airport's future may damage business confidence.
She suggested that cuts to the policing budget would damage public confidence in the police.
But strong housing data from the U.S. softened the damage to confidence.
According to many of the organisations, the measure would be of "no benefit" to the public and would damage their confidence with regards to recycling.
Defaults and foreclosures damage consumer confidence in the housing recovery, and foreclosures hurt not only the people who lose their homes but also their neighbors.
Upholding the charges "would greatly damage the confidence and trust of the public in the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system, and rightly so, " the judge wrote.
The truth is that the real damage to confidence comes not from a one-day fall, as in October 1987, but from a multi-year bear market of the kind we could be entering today.
The damage to customer confidence may outweigh the actual security damage to Microsoft.
That would not force Peru to suspend debt payments, but it would damage investors' confidence, already battered by political uncertainty.
But economists argue that this would inflict such damage on investor confidence across the EU that it should only be considered as a last resort, a "nuclear option".
Our direct financial exposure to those governments and their financial institutions is quite small, but Europe is so large and so closely integrated with the U.S. and world economies that a severe crisis in Europe could cause significant damage by undermining confidence and weakening demand.
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Default would then be inevitable, and with it damage to both market confidence and the domestic financial system.
The bank also warned of the damage being done to confidence by the US budget battles in Washington.
But that period of careless talk and occasional over-confidence did lasting reputational damage.
But the crisis has done nothing to damage Tata's growing self-confidence.
It is a damage limitation exercise that will only erode public confidence in the exam system further.
That gives insufficient weight to the damage that Wall Street would have suffered anyway due to the crisis of investor confidence following the collapse of Enron, the accounting scandals and so forth.
But the testimony of government officials Thursday made clear that even a firm meeting regulatory standards for capital and liquidity can fall prey to a collapse in confidence, making it virtually impossible to raise capital to stop the damage fast enough to matter.
That the effect of all this is more to damage market valuations of Wall Street firms and throw analysts out of work than to restore investor confidence seems not in the least to have detracted from Spitzer's popularity.
In a separate statement also aimed at improving consumer confidence, the Commission said it was looking at ways of fighting computer crime following the damage caused by Thursday's Love Bug virus.
In a study on confidence and accuracy, Lewis Goldberg asked experienced neurologists and their administrative assistants to diagnose brain damage among patients as being organic or non-organic damage using a standard protocol in the field.
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