Carlton Communications firmed 1p to 735p on a 16pc profits boost and a confident statement about current trading.

These are confident statements of modern urban existence, and for that reason they speak to us across time more than his many bucolic backyard scenes.

It was a simple, confident statement of precisely what the future would hold.

The mobleaders stared as they heard Tyrell's confident statement.

Although the earnings announcement included confident statements about the company's future, Primedia seems destined to be a much smaller company.

His officers, recognizing the weight of Aide's opinion which nestled inside that confident statement, nodded their acceptance.

It was Mutombo and Martin who made the most confident statements.

Crane's confident statement that "there was not a trace of anything fraudulent" in Scott's nature is left looking on rather thin ice as a result.

"It consists of confident statement followed by immediate refutation by the same voice."

A confident statement, but empty talk for the moment.