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
"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
While I could place confidence in the one, I never suspected deceit in the other.'
From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Moodie, Susanna
Nothing so much induces the men to place confidence in their officers as to show them that an interest is taken in their welfare.
From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Pearse, Alfred
