According to officials, the plant was built to withstand a 500 year flooding event and though by June 14, 2011, much of the facility was surrounded by the swollen Missouri River, Omaha Public Power District officials were confident that enough redundancies were in place to ensure adequate safety.

And they're confident that the GOP, currently assailed by dissensions within the ranks, will be impressed by the purring power beneath the hood of this grassroots-fueled machine.

I am confident that it will, but consumer spending in the Sixties will not be fortified by the great backlog of wants and desires which characterized most of the Fifties.

The new Tory ministry hoped to use Kidd as a tool to discredit the Whigs who had backed him, but Kidd refused to name names, naively confident his patrons would reward his loyalty by interceding on his behalf.

When stopped by the Roman guards, they prayed to St Catherine to help them, confident that she would rather have her body ( or at least part thereof ) in Siena.

The masculine virility and discipline displayed by the men's rigid and confident stances is also severely contrasted to the slouching, swooning female softness created in the other half of the composition.

Gardner seems not to have been confident writing original poetry, and instead borrowed and wove together appropriate material from other artists and occultists, most notably Crowley, Charles Godfrey Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, the Key of Solomon as published by S. L.

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

By the 1980s, financiers grew increasingly confident in the musical genre, partly buoyed by the relative health of the musical on Broadway and London's West End.

Armed with a " highly confident letter " from Drexel ( in which Drexel promised to get the necessary debt in time to fulfill the buyer's obligations ), these firms and greenmailers were able to profit by merely threatening LBOs of large, blue-chip companies in which they had built up equity positions.

In another house are two antelopes, painted with a kind of confident, flowing, decorative, calligraphic line, the famous fresco of a fisherman with his double strings of fish strung by their gills, and the flotilla of pleasure boats, accompanied by leaping dolphins, where ladies take their ease in the shade of light canopies, among other frescoes.

Dong Zhuo, confident in his success, was slain by his follower Lü Bu and minister Wang Yun.

In 1424 when Henry VI's ruling council released James it expected the Scottish king to be compliant, to keep the peace between the kingdoms and to stop Scottish support for France but by 1430 he would emerge as a confident and independent minded European prince.

Initially this step was supported by an outbreak of patriotic fervour and confident expectations of victory.

Led by Karl Malone and John Stockton, the Jazz felt confident that they could defeat the Bulls, winning game one at Utah's Delta Center.

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1996 (“ e are confident that by empowering the court to grant ‘ appropriate ’ relief Congress meant to include retroactive reimbursement to parents as an available remedy in a proper case .”); 20 U. S. C.

In 1859, confident of gaining the presidential nomination and advised by his political ally and friend Thurlow Weed that he would be better off avoiding political gatherings where his words might be misinterpreted by one faction or another, Seward left the country for an eight-month tour of Europe that included a visit to Syria, where Ayub Beg Tarabulsy gave him several Arabian horses.

Due to his success in the American Chess Congress, many people in America felt confident they had a player strong enough to challenge the best players abroad and that he should be supported by the American Chess Association to make those challenges.

Her personality as Sophie is initially somewhat timid, however, by the end of the book she becomes an adept magician and confident young woman.

He is confident that Grimarest, warning by the thunder of cannon is located where the fight is decided to fly to his aid from Tarazona.

Though the present aspect of affairs is menacing in a high degree, I can by no means arrive at the conclusion that war with the Zulus should be unavoidable, and I am confident that you, in concert with Sir H. Bulwer, will use every effort to overcome the existing difficulties by judgment and forbearance, and to avoid an evil so much to be deprecated as a Zulu war.

In winter, these birds can be very confident and will come into gardens for berry bushes and trees and to drink from fountains or bird baths.

* Clipped birds sometimes appear insecure and less confident, perhaps from their inability to escape from perceived predators.

The sighting, at dusk, was by biologists Dr Robert Davis and Mr Brendan Metcalf, who were not able to obtain a photograph of the three birds they saw, but are confident that they spotted three Night Parrots.

They also tend to put a very confident dive in front of a very difficult dive to ensure that they will have a good mentality for the difficult dive.

Countering Gould, Davis further explained that Goddard proposed that the low IQs of the sub-normally intelligent men and women who took the cognitive-ability test likely derived from their social environments rather than from their respective genetic inheritances, and concluded that " we may be confident that their children will be of average intelligence, and, if rightly brought up, will be good citizens.

We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.

His genial good humour and confident bonhomie made the tour a great success.

" But Barnum was confident that her reputation for morality and philanthropy could be turned to good use in his publicity.

Heller believed that his young pupil was good enough to attain ' concert standard ' with the necessary ' hard work ', which, according to Lovell, he was not confident she was capable of.

Wanting to save them both, and yet understanding she can save only one of them, Susan sees Henry icily calm again, confident that his mother will save her ' good ' son.

He was confident that he would write in marathi in as good or better manner than Sanskrit.

Tiffany Aching and others from her peer group assist Annagramma, and it turns out that she is good enough at the part of witchcraft that consists of being confident, bossy and giving people a good show to pick up the rest along the way.

After several meetings and conversations, Klein felt confident that Carnivàle would make a good episodic television series that could last for many years.

It is important that head coaches in high school hire a competent and proactive coaching staff because when the head coach is pulled away from practice then he must be confident that his team is in good hands with his other coaches and staff.

After watching the film, Chan became more confident, realizing that the audience doesn't really care so much about such minor details, only in watching the film and having a good time.

O ' Neal doubted for a while if he had made the right decision to skip college — he watched with envy as good friend and fellow prep-to-pro draftee Kobe Bryant was enjoying a good rookie season — but he remained confident that the best had yet to come.

Zvonareva is a player with good offensive and defensive capabilities from the baseline and also confident at the net, as shown by her good doubles record.

As a result of living in a pack structure very much similar to their wolf forebears, the Greenland dog takes a very firm and confident owner to make a good pet.

A good therapy dog must be friendly, patient, confident, gentle, and at ease in all situations.

Astronomers are confident that these observations of Sagittarius A * provide good empirical evidence that our own Milky Way galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, 26, 000 light-years from the Solar System because:

Bomber crews reported good results, turning for home if they lost their way or could not find the target due to weather, and pressing on only if they felt confident they could identify the target with certainty.

In the lead up to the series England captain Tony Greig was confident of his team's chances, saying in an interview " I like to think people are building these West Indians up, because I'm not really sure they're as good as everyone thinks.

If Christians were naturally strong and confident, they would have a God who is destructive as well as good.

If the operator is confident that he has a good track he fires.