Yet the administration's examination did not question the oil industry's confident assertions about its drilling technology.

It is therefore not unlikely that some Gnostics used amulets, though the confident assertions of modern writers to this effect rest on no authority.

Fred is the person who makes confident assertions like this.

Such a confident assertion of local feeling against nuclear power was in tune with shifts in the national political scene.

Nor is there sufficient basis for a confident assertion of the date of Lucretius' birth or death in other sources.

Despite her confident assertion, she knew that Iris had a point.

Those confident assertions from the two most powerful men in the Irish government could become hostages to fiscal fortune over the next 12 months.

My qualifications for making so confident an assertion?

On Tuesday, it said it expected inflation to be "contained," a more vague and less confident assertion.

And this is where pharyngula's confident assertions are perhaps less than helpful.