give confidence

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Nothing we have seen so far can give confidence that wading deeper now ends in a quick victory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Orlando Camacho, a lawmaker on the Energy and Petroleum commission, said during the debate that the reforms "can help increase all the legal guarantees that allow us to give confidence to national and international investment."

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

“Without a new permanent program to give confidence to restaurants to invest in the future, a lot of the outdoor dining fell apart.”

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2024

"Clearly the group remains a construction site in the near term, however we believe this set of results and announcements should give confidence in the mid-term bull case," said Deutsche Bank analysts in a note.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2023

The meeting took place under the American barricade on the Tartar Wall itself, apparently to give confidence to the men and to make them ashamed of themselves.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)