31.   But their confidence was shaken by the way the three-week-old government of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon handled the affair.

32.   Cast as a mobster whose confidence is shaken, De Niro is hilarious simply by playing his role halfway straight, in classic goodfella style.

33.   Confidence was shaken by a volatile stock market and a rash of layoffs.

34.   David Welsh, a senior State Department official, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday the Sierra Leone disaster has shaken the confidence of such UN missions.

35.   Despite criticism from sources including this page, he continued his high-profile, politically tinged private law practice, thus shaking confidence in his dedication.

36.   Even a losing season, the worst of his long career, could not shake his confidence, at least not in public.

37.   Fears of an economic slowdown, he added, have shaken confidence in the future growth of outsourcing.

38.   Events have shaken their confidence.

39.   Financial markets warily awaited the fallout from the affair, which, analysts said, would severely shake confidence in the bond market.

40.   Gramm said he had approached the hearings this week expecting to hear from a number of malcontents, but the hearings have shaken his confidence in the entire agency.