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
Even Shakespeare, the friend, the wonderful man who had saved her from the Spaniard, she feared entirely to place confidence in.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
"How can I place confidence in what you say," said the doctor, "when the very day after your punishment had expired for your former act of folly, you commit a far more serious one?"
From Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark by Bruce, Charles
“Mr Harwood’s recommendation makes me place confidence in you, but I tell you frankly, I would rather know more about you than I do!”
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles
