Europeans, he charged, have entered a new century with a misplaced confidence in arms control.

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Misplaced confidence might be a consequence of the financial services industry, which handles credit card hacking briskly and with little out-of-pocket cost to the consumer.

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Several western authors also put misplaced confidence in Asia's prospects.

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Also adding to misplaced investor confidence: special protocol assessments.

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The chancellor's confidence appeared misplaced during the first nine months of the financial year.

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Confidence or misplaced arrogance?

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So Obama's confidence may be misplaced and his effort in unwinable states, wasted.

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This confidence may be misplaced.

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Presumably Mr Batista thinks that LLX is now undervalued and that a show of self-confidence would not be misplaced.

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We believe this confidence may well be misplaced.

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Mr Musk feels such votes of little or no confidence by the market are misplaced and foolhardy.

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Unfortunately, this confidence in the inexorable forces of "globalization" is as misplaced in the case of the so-called "pro-Western" Arab states as are the other assumptions driving American policy towards the region at the moment.

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