But it is an entirely respectable technique and in confident hands it can set the tone perfectly.
While the SCC survey found declining confidence among businesses, another survey reported Scottish businesses were in confident mood.
British duo Malcolm (20.58) and Devonish (20.55) will hope to be among the medals and are in confident mood.
With the economy starting to grow faster, the country is in confident mood.
But it did not matter - and Flintoff's side will head to the World Cup next month in confident mood.
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Wie was in confident mood after sending a seven-iron to within two feet for a birdie at the ninth, her closing hole.
And although Exeter beat Nottingham in the league fixture at Sandy Park earlier in the season Hammond says they are in confident mood.
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Laporta's major task in the coming days is to convince the England captain to agree to the move, but Rosell is in confident mood.
But Mattek was in confident mood when play resumed on Friday and, with Sharapova clearly out of sorts, hit back to take the second set.
Denly was out-thought by the seamer, poking an aerial drive to short extra-cover, but Strauss and Owais Shah (43no) took their stand to 80 off 21 overs in confident fashion.
Stricker started the day in confident mood, but his slip at the 13th proved decisive as he eventually finished 12 under following a bogey-free round of 69.
Midfielder Joe Ledley says he is in confident mood for the run-in and dismissed fears about his fitness after he came off in the second half against the Royals.
Given last weekend's Sunday Times survey suggesting Sinn Fein is now attracting 25% support in comparison to Fianna Fail's 16%, the party will head into this referendum in confident form.
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"I think Ceiron will come off the field in confident mood after the game he had and he and the rest of the boys should take confidence from this, " said Key.
The calm, confident Djokovic now gave way to the more petulant side of his character and he slammed his racquet into the floor as Davydenko began the second set in confident fashion.
On paper at least, it appeared they would provide a stern test to City but the manner of this win means Mark Hughes' men will approach the second leg on 19 March in confident mood.
The USA went into the game in confident mood, having won the Six Nations Challenge event earlier this year to earn a place in the Champions Trophy, which will see them take on Australia and New Zealand.
They will go into the final in confident mood after a superb sequence of results which has seen them beat Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand in the second group stage and now Sri Lanka in the last four.
But stand-off Brown, signed by the Giants initially on loan in 2006, remains confident in Huddersfield's future without their Aussie coach.
There is certain black humor in how confident the investor mood swung just before Friday.
Wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt, he has an easy charm about him in his confident English.
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We feel confident in our ability to win in November, and I feel confident that we'll do just fine tomorrow.
Make them succinct and snappy and rehearse them so you can be sure to weave them into the conversation in a confident way.
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Like John McPhee's books on American geology, it's an extraordinarily comprehensive volume of natural science, written in a confident, dare we say, fluid style.
Openers Shane Watson and Tim Paine each passed 30 in a confident start to the Aussie chase, and Ponting picked up the baton smoothly.
In claiming he is 100% confident in his ability to control inflation, Mr. Bernanke ignores the record that during his tenure he has misdiagnosed the economy.
They also happen to have their own seafood safety lab in Boston, which I have seen, and they rigorously test every batch of stuff they get in, and I am more confident in the health standards of seafood from Legal than anywhere else.
Once William Shatner returns to commercials, consumers may begin to remember why Priceline was the leader in online travel bookings and feel confident in using the service once again, rather than traveling through competitors like Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), Orbitz (NYSE: OWW), Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO) and Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP), all of which have been trending upward recently (with the exception of Orbitz, which traded down seven percent during Wednesday trading).
Fortunately, we know enough about risks and protective factors for psychiatric conditions in general that we can be fairly confident in making some suggestions.
Executives in companies involved in innovation are more likely to be confident in their ability to innovate and improve, have an aggressive management team, and sense that customers want something new and different.
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