Dean Heller, Nevada's secretary of state, wants to instill that same degree of confidence in the state's electronic voting machines.
"What we're going to give you is a solid tabulation when we give it to you ... if it takes two hours, two days, or two weeks, the result we give you will be a good result that the voters of the state of Ohio can have confidence in, " he said.
Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger.
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"Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger, " he said.
But in America, where some 60% of state appellate judges and more than 80% of state trial judges face contested elections, noisy political contests certainly contribute to an endemic lack of confidence in the judiciary, at least at state level. (Federal judges are not elected.) Most states allow candidates to raise funds, often running to millions of dollars.
Grim news on the state of the world's economies sent a crisis of confidence rippling through markets around the globe Friday.
The sorry condition of municipal and state finances could yet be the trigger for a loss of confidence.
In their letter to President Sarkozy, laying down the priorities for the Cannes G20 Summit, David Cameron and five other heads of state put their finger on the problem: they said that confidence of citizens, businesses and markets had been damaged by a "lack of visible political will".
In fact, many experts express little confidence in the current state of airport security.
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If the prime minister refuses to budge, he could be removed by President Giorgio Napolitano (although the head of state has said he will do this only if the government loses the confidence of parliament).
But the dysfunctional state of American politics does not give me great confidence in the short run.
Stocks lost 2.2% of their value and despite the inconclusive state of our national debt and inability to create enough new jobs, investors reflected their confidence in the soundness of the U.S. government by driving down the 10 year bond yield from 3.06% to 2.95%.
On Jan. 27, 2010, American confidence is in the pits and President Barack Obama gave his own crisis of confidence speech, otherwise known as the State of the Union address.
Even if the state redeems the mistaken gambles of the past, keeps depositors' confidence alive, and does so without printing huge amounts of money, the future of the Russian banking system remains bleak.
Though tainted by a local scandal, Roland Koch, the young state premier of Hesse, has just been boosted by a remarkable vote of confidence from 98% of his local party people.
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey said the development would "give confidence to our domestic manufacturing supply chain".
In December of that year, the National Intelligence Council - then under the leadership of another product of the State Department, Thomas Fingar - produced an NIE that declared "with high confidence" that the Iranian mullahs had halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003.
This is partly due to the state of fragmentation in the opposition ranks, especially among the exile groups, which do not inspire confidence among fence-sitters.
Indeed, according to Hilary Benn, Britain's secretary of state for international development, the open and transparent way in which it behaves has increased donor confidence.
"The impact of such operations undermines the trust and confidence of the Afghan people in efforts to build a just, peaceful and law-abiding state, " Eide added.
Its capital position must remain strong: capable of at least maintaining its lending book, absorbing shocks, and commanding enough confidence to allow borrowing without state guarantees.
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