Grim news on the state of the world's economies sent a crisis of confidence rippling through markets around the globe Friday.
To read the world press and hear the ministerial mutterings at official summits, you'd sense a crisis of confidence about globalization.
"It's really just a crisis of confidence and panic selling, " Rueckert said.
Banks may suffer from a crisis of confidence in emerging markets, too.
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Yet there is a crisis of confidence, an uncertainty and a lack of optimism in our society which I believe should trouble us.
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"In Japan, the key risk is that the unsustainable fiscal position will eventually affect financial markets and provoke a crisis of confidence, " the report said.
That would undoubtedly spark a crisis of confidence among the applicants.
From the start, this meltdown has reflected a crisis of confidence.
The economists conclude that this effect can operate in some conditions, especially when high fiscal deficits are already causing a crisis of confidence, as in Greece.
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The government will always protect Citicorp and other behemoth banks with federally-insured deposits, where failure could trigger a crisis of confidence and other problems for the economy.
At the time that the ECB launched the loan program, many European banks were locked out of normal funding markets because of a crisis of confidence sweeping the euro zone.
Bad headlines, yes, but they have not led to a crisis of confidence in the leadership of Chief Executive John Browne such as befell BP's rival Royal Dutch Shell in 2004.
Analysts reckon that the banks gave the stay of execution only because a second collapse on the same day as the downfall of Daewoo Motor would have triggered a crisis of confidence.
The climate-gate controversy created by ethical improprieties of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in England has created a crisis of confidence among Republicans and other political conservatives in the United States.
More recently, the central bank said it would cancel 80% of the debts owed to it by eight troubled banks, in order to avoid a crisis of confidence and to make the banks attractive to buyers.
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"After all the scandals you had a crisis of confidence in the market in general and in the institutions people looked to as upright, " says Meyer Eisenberg, acting director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management.
Bad headlines, yes, but they have not led to a crisis of confidence in the leadership of Chief Executive John Browne such as befell BP's rival Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people ) in 2004.
If there had been no growth despite the Olympics and so on, there might have been a crisis of confidence among Conservative and Lib Dem MPs who are looking closely at their majorities and turning their minds to the general election.
"The crisis that we are facing is a crisis of confidence, and this confidence cannot be gained if we postpone the tackling of the root causes of the crisis, " Mr Weidmann said, referring to France, Italy and Cyprus as countries that still face tough financial situations.
In the face of a justified crisis of confidence in capitalism, we must rebuild trust and faith in the system.
"There is a real crisis of confidence, " John Guy, a London-based luxury goods analyst at brokerage MF Global Securities, said.
He warned that the series of events had led to "a profound crisis of confidence amongst school and college leaders, teachers, parents and students in our current examinations system".
Mr McConnell said he couldn't comment on this individual case, but generally there was a "crisis of confidence" in the courts so long as sentences like this were handed down.
It came after a fortnight of political crisis following a vote of no confidence in the cabinet.
His last victory came two years ago, at the Australian Masters, which preceded by less than two weeks his famous encounter with the fire hydrant, followed by scandal, a series of left-leg maladies and a crisis of on-course confidence.
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However, over the last few weeks, through conversations with individuals at all levels of the European renewable sector, a surprisingly deep and discernible crisis of confidence appeared to be taking hold.
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While the merger will have to overcome several political obstacles, it is a sign that the Greek banking system begins to respond to the economic crisis, and a vote of confidence by foreign investors that can become the model for other Greek and European banks.
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