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
He therefore earnestly besought them to place confidence in, and faithfully serve and obey, his brother, the Duke of Lancaster, as they had hitherto served and obeyed him.
From Richard II Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
While Rector of the College of Fermo, he was chosen by Cardinal Ferretti, its founder, his theologian, and never did this Cardinal, even when in Rome, cease to place confidence in his advice.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Trelawney is suspected of mingling some fiction with his truth, but the general tendency nowadays is to place confidence in these Recollections.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts
