place confidence in
Example Sentences
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Sutton’s legal problems were known to some at Huntington, but colleagues continued to place confidence in him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2018
"Codeo advises all the presidential election contestants and their supporters as well as the general public to place confidence in the electoral commission's official presidential election results," it said.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2012
They were not willing to place confidence in the sense of equity and fair dealing of the people of the United States.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
The people, therefore, had good reason to place confidence in Cleisthenes.
From The Athenian Constitution by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
The crews, though no faint-hearted fellows, had not as yet learned to place confidence in him.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston
