How badly has confidence eroded and what will you do to restore it?

For one thing, the technological confidence of that time has eroded.

In the new economy of layoffs, limitation and job insecurity, their expansive confidence has eroded.

"If you don't accelerate such things, then confidence would surely have eroded," he said.

An hour before, he would have said no, but he could see now what the shells did to the ground, and his confidence had eroded quickly.

It is a sign of how quickly confidence in the economy has eroded.

"What we've learned is that when confidence erodes, it erodes very quickly."

But he said if that confidence eroded, the treaty was "an impossibility."

Meulens concedes his confidence has eroded, and it is time to build it up.

"Your sense of yourself and your confidence in being able to re-enter erodes over time," she said.