place confidence in
Example Sentences
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Sutton’s legal problems were known to some at Huntington, but colleagues continued to place confidence in him.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2018
"Codeo advises all the presidential election contestants and their supporters as well as the general public to place confidence in the electoral commission's official presidential election results," it said.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2012
The missionary is learning, with increasing pleasure, to place confidence in their veracity.
From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
For I will not place confidence in servants, and there are no guests here at present upon whose judgment I can rely concerning even a lesser matter than this which occupies all my thoughts.
From The Forsaken Inn A Novel by Green, Anna Katharine
She could only place confidence in a Dutchman.
From French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Avril, Paul