1.   Despite those confident words, business and political leaders openly say that their real goal is to persuade Behring to sell the team to a local owner.

2.   Mike Pritchard, a wide receiver who joined the Seahawks this season after stints in Denver and Atlanta, used the word confident to describe Friesz.

3.   The confident words flow from Rivera, but do not ooze with arrogance.

4.   Panis had confident words for Prost, the four-time Formula One champion who took over the ailing Ligier team this year.

5.   Confident words from a team which finally found the assurance it was lacking in its troubling opening match against England.

6.   These remarks contrasted sharply with the confident words of Arab energy ministers meeting in Cairo at the weekend, ruling out any hike in oil production.

7.   Other nations need to rise to the challenge if they are to make Li eat his confident words.