By the same token, he felt that the vote indicated non-confidence in the old political institutions and parties associated with an obsolete system.
The debate primarily focused on facilitating the use of the language and improving the confidence of non-fluent Welsh language speakers.
Confidence among non-manufacturers was unchanged in the final quarter of 2004, but it is forecast to drop one point in the March survey.
Although it can do nothing for Mr Lay, the fate of Bear Stearns illustrates how quickly a firm's prospects can go from promising to non-existent when counterparties lose confidence in it.
There was a time when I might have speculated on the cause but then I learned that rather than continuously update my priors I should instead consider every piece of evidence in isolation and adhere strictly to the absolutely non-arbitrary standard of a 95% confidence interval.
It is true that, unlike a censure motion against the cabinet or a minister in the lower house, a no-confidence vote in the upper house is non-binding.
Lorraine Barrett, a former Welsh assembly member who now works as a humanist celebrant, said it was interesting that people had the confidence to declare themselves of no religion or non-Christian.
These are not questions that economists or anyone else can give a sensible answer to - not least, because no-one can say with any confidence what the terms of Britain's NON-membership of the EU would be.
Factories saw a 6.3% rise in demand for non-defence capital goods, pointing to a rebound in business confidence.
The Ulster Unionist motion calls for the exclusion of Sinn Fein because "as a political party Sinn Fein does not enjoy the confidence of the assembly because it is not committed to non-violence and exclusively and democratic means".
Cuts in taxes and in non-wage labour costs, says the paper, are the key to regaining confidence in the economy.
For the moment, Mr Livingston has the confidence of both wings: he espouses fiscal conservatism but objects to attaching non-financial issues such as abortion to financial legislation.
Though forecasts are often wrong, the disappointing monthly ADP National Employment Report is not inspiring confidence for a positive surprise from the Labor Department, particularly as far as non-governmental hiring is concerned.
"In the face of falling consumer confidence, retailers' efforts to generate sales with Easter discounts were key to holding back prices on non-food goods, " said Stephen Robertson, director general of the BRC.
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