"I'm relatively confident this is going to work," he said in an interview last week from his home in Atlanta.

Though the industrial sector of the economy has suffered, consumers have remained relatively confident.

The combined responses create an index in which 1985 (a relatively confident year) is set to equal 100.

Here, everyone knows you and we can be relatively confident of your safety with only Tarith to look after you.

At this stage in the negotiations, Green was in a relatively confident mood.

"I'm relatively confident that we can block participation of the Soviet Union."

The poll found Americans to be relatively confident in their knowledge of technology (the public's narrow definition may well have influenced that response).

An insider said: "We are relatively confident the concept will go into production".

We must be judged by our general work and we are relatively confident of that judgement.

I am relatively confident because the Committee on Budgets is behind us, which means that we can expect some genuinely tough negotiation.