How to Use vote of confidence in a Sentence

vote of confidence

noun phrase
  • Jaquez views the lack of moves as a vote of confidence from the Heat’s front office in last season’s roster.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
  • So laugh in the face of the old year, and wear your dazzling dripping drops as a defiant vote of confidence in a brighter future.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The 7-foot-2 center got a vote of confidence from Calipari on Calipari's call-in show Monday.
    Kevin Skiver, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Tuesday’s news was about as big of a vote of confidence a starting pitcher can receive.
    Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • As for Erivo, her Wicked costars have also given her their vote of confidence.
    Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • Trump gave Johnson a muted vote of confidence when the speaker journeyed to Mar-a-Lago before the Ukraine vote.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Many Democrats are straddling the issue, offering a tepid vote of confidence if Biden runs, but urging him to face hard facts.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 8 July 2024
  • Pallet’s success in a nearby town also served as a vote of confidence.
    Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 30 June 2023
  • Like last season, all three judges gave her their vote of confidence, sending her through to Hollywood Week.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The PrEP landscape has evolved dramatically since the task force first lent its vote of confidence to Truvada four years ago.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Despite that public vote of confidence, however, there was still a sense that Tuchel’s days in Munich could be numbered.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Houck delivered on that vote of confidence, inducing two ground-ball outs to wiggle out of trouble.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This is seen as a vote of confidence for Xpeng’s capabilities and market access.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • When their father was alive, Shiv, Kendall, and Roman still stood a chance of winning his vote of confidence and affection — and underneath everything, that has been their goal.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The extension represents a vote of confidence in the Pompidou brand, which has in recent months struggled to retain its luster.
    News Desk, Artforum, 16 July 2024
  • Of course, such steps will face significant hurdles, starting with gaining the people’s trust by going back to them for a vote of confidence in new leadership.
    Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Sanchez could squeak through in a vote of confidence if Junts per Catalunya chose to abstain but Spain is most likely heading for an extended period of gridlock.
    Alonso Soto, Clara Hernanz Lizarraga and Laura Millan, Bloomberg News, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
  • Jerry Jones gave McCarthy a vote of confidence after his team succumbed to the 49ers in consecutive Januarys.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Search engines interpret these backlinks as a vote of confidence in the quality and relevance of your content.
    Danielle Sabrina, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Others continue to struggle to secure that vote of confidence.
    Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Bengals head coach Zac Taylor gave Kragthorpe a recent vote of confidence.
    Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Markets, however, were more moved by strong economic data, along with a vote of confidence in the country's banking system.
    WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • He was later appointed minister for health, a top cabinet post, in a major vote of confidence from Enda Kenny, then the taoiseach.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Wood’s vote of confidence in Coinbase comes during trying times for the crypto community.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • Halfway through what turned out to be his final season, athletic director Tom Jurich declined to give Crum a vote of confidence and months of sniping between them ensued.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2023
  • The European owner of Westfield malls is pulling back from its aggressive plan to sell nearly all its properties and exit from the U.S. market this year, another vote of confidence for the high-end mall business.
    Kate King, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The Federal Reserve said the biggest U.S. lenders remain healthy, a vote of confidence for the financial system after a series of midsize bank failures earlier this year.
    Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 28 June 2023
  • But the decision to lend money and star power to the cause represents a vote of confidence among the Hollywood luminaries in the future of Formula One and the vast potential of the American market.
    Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 30 June 2023
  • Thus, the order from American, which has its mainline fleet roughly split between Airbus and Boeing, was an important vote of confidence for the trouble aircraft maker.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Such backing hardly constitutes a helpful vote of confidence.
    Ngaire Woods, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022

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