Styria's governor, Waltraud Klasnic, a member of the People's Party, said her party's victory was a vote of confidence for the conservatives' policies in the region.

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The 20-year-old Australian eased to a 6-3 7-5 victory to bolster his confidence ahead of this month's grand slam.

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Better to seek revenge and victory through quiet confidence and actions instead of arrogance and words.

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The victory gave Wales a timely confidence boost ahead of their qualifier against Group D leaders Germany in Cardiff on 8 September.

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Strauss, full of confidence after his century in the victory at Old Trafford, took his team calmly to 84-2 at lunch, but in the first over after the interval edged a very wide delivery high to first slip.

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Els added that victory on the testing Bay Hill course would give him plenty of confidence heading into the Masters, which starts on 8 April.

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And with Mr Odinga pledging to accept the ruling of the Supreme Court which will hear his case alleging that Mr Kenyatta's victory was rigged, he and the rest of Kenya was expressing confidence in the judiciary.

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Having started the season so positively, Sunderland's confidence has been steadily eroded by a run of 14 league matches without a victory, which has seen them slip dangerously close to the bottom three.

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But the victory - the most one-sided of the Premiership season - will send Leicester into the play-offs brimming with confidence.

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