collapse of confidence
plunge in confidence

"Everybody talks about volatile financial markets, but we were all surprised by the complete collapse of confidence."

Questions about those partnerships led to the collapse of confidence in Enron and to its eventual filing for bankruptcy.

We cannot export our way out of trouble and a collapse of confidence means that consumption and investment spending are both shrinking.

One of those dangers, a diplomat from Burundi said last week, is the collapse of confidence in a country's leaders and their ability to guarantee security.

A dangerous national collapse of confidence thwarted his ambition to become the first elected president to serve out a full term since Juan Peron.

What destroyed the ancien regime, along with the world of the Enlightenment portrayed in this book, was a collapse of confidence.

The World Bank noted that Asia's reliance on short-term debt "left the economies vulnerable to a sudden collapse of confidence."

The reason cited for the sacking was due to poor direction, "woeful" performance and governance and an overall collapse of confidence in the organisation.

The Bank of Canada was set up mainly to offset the near collapse of confidence in the Canadian financial system brought about by the Depression.

But whatever collapse of confidence and creativity occurred in the Nineties has been replaced with something worthy of Konstantin Stanislavsky himself.

It aimed to turn the white population against the government by creating a situation that would result in capital flight and collapse of confidence in the country and its economy.

Describing the Conservatives as the masters of this practice is worryingly narrow-minded and risks ignoring the wider collapse of confidence in UK politics.

The dramatic slump in Mr. Sarney's fortunes since last November has followed the no less rapid collapse of confidence in the Brazilian economy.

All that can sensibly be said is that, given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years, a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point.

"The failure to take on Saddam after what the president said would produce such a collapse of confidence in the president that it would set back the war on terrorism."

The TV people said that most Western governments planned to keep the markets shut until they could invent some way of reopening them without a massive, disastrous collapse of confidence.

Richard Perle, an administration Iraq hawk, gave away the game in yesterday's Times: "The failure to take on Saddam after what the president said" would lead to "a collapse of confidence."

The school is due to close after just 16 parents named it as their first choice in the latest admissions round - a collapse of confidence which the school claims was exacerbated by Birbalsingh.

Furthermore, while a comprehensive aid package may help the PIIGS in the short term, will the collapse of confidence in the Euro really be in anyone's best interest going forward?

Due to the sudden collapse of confidence and credit ratings from international financial institutions, the Philippine government, had difficulty borrowing new capital to cut the increasing budget deficit, much of it payments to interest from debt.

He argued that a collapse of confidence in Mexico threatened a withdrawal of foreign funds from emerging economies worldwide and a flight of capital from overly indebted industrial countries like Sweden, Italy and Canada.

It focused on what it described as "a loss of faith in secular nationalism" due in part to the postcolonial collapse of confidence in Western models of nationalism and to the rise of globalization.

And a problem that won't serve that purpose, whether it's the collapse of confidence in corporate governance or the chaos in the Middle East, is treated as an annoyance to be ignored if possible, or at best addressed with purely cosmetic measures.

If most of what was sometimes called 'the payroll vote' attended, the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened, the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government.

'I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that, on the present slow course, the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble - an inflationary disintegration,' Mr Angell said.