The country was buoyant with a new self-confidence: health posts were set up and a vaccination campaign immunized 2.5 million children.

With the responsibility the boys developed a new self-confidence.

The new housing is but one facet of Barnard's new self-confidence these days.

That "spirit" signals a dramatic widening of horizons, a new self-confidence.

And he had a lift of new self-confidence.

This year his work with Jewel, an exuberant 9-year-old who happens to have Down syndrome, gave him some new self-confidence.

The long efforts of the years are beginning to show results and Catholics have a new self-confidence.

The intifada gave Palestinians in the occupied territories a new self-confidence, of the kind that can make political compromise possible.

At first I wasn't good at sewing, but the class has given me a new skill and new self-confidence.

But persistence will bear rich rewards of enhanced skills, better coordination and a new self-confidence in the water.