Why not confidence-building measures, and eventually dialogue?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007] Reference

The confidence-building phase in military relations is now over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vietnam's Defensive Diplomacy] Reference

It's a confidence-building measure in reconciling them with Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2008] Reference

So that's an important indication of confidence-building measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009] Reference

But with this incident all of our confidence-building measures became futile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worst Job in the World] Reference

Formal "confidence-building measures" aren't the only way to establish trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiniest Diplomat] Reference

There have to be confidence-building measures, a lot of (UNINTELLIGIBLE) security.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2002] Reference

She had particularly enjoyed tackling one of those confidence-building ropes courses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis] Reference

That's not going to have a lot of confidence-building on the part of the Iraqi regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2003] Reference

Then you have confidence-building measures which deals with the grievances of each side.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2001] Reference

ROTH: The U.N. introduced some confidence-building measure, but failed to create any breakthroughs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2007] Reference

This provides some additional transparency and can serve, over time, as a confidence-building measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning From Experience on Arms Control] Reference

But he said such a deal would still be a confidence-building step and an opening to broader nuclear talks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nations Repeat Commitment to Negotiated Solution on Iran Nukes] Reference

And the whole idea was to take these smaller steps - I think they were called confidence-building measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mideast Talks Wrap With A Promise] Reference

We believe that this issue is an essential confidence-building measure that must be addressed by the parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2001] Reference

But at the end of that confidence-building period, then into discussions on the difficult final status issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2001] Reference

Supporters argue that the women-only atmosphere is conducive to confidence-building as well as good academics.    From Wordnik.com.  [RISING TO THE TOP] Reference

The U.S. has been pushing other confidence-building measures to underpin the process, American officials said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mideast Talks Address Key Issues] Reference

Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and confidence-building measures have led to decreased tensions since 2002.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

With the confidence-building measure of allowing Iranians their God-given right to pave their own path to modernity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A New Iran Emerges] Reference

TAKEYH: Well, I think one of the signs of confidence-building measure would be for Iran to ship out its low-enriched uranium.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009] Reference

And as the secretary has remarked rightly, there is no connection between the confidence-building measures and the cease-fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2001] Reference

We need to have some confidence-building here, both nations, one with the other, before we say exactly what we're going to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2001] Reference

But the food that they are trying to bring in is as much a psychological weapon and a confidence-building weapon as anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003] Reference

It's not exactly the confidence-building measures that they're looking for, at least even on the verbal side of the political sphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2006] Reference

Pakistan various talks and confidence-building measures cautiously have begun to defuse tensions over Kashmir, particularly since the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Administration officials had hoped Netanyahu he would agree to an extension as a confidence-building measure before the talks started.    From Wordnik.com.  [What it took to get Israelis and Palestinians to agree to talks] Reference

As you know, Senator Mitchell and the other committee members put the settlement issue in the context of confidence-building measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2001] Reference

The dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and confidence-building measures have led to decreased tensions since.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

I look forward to working in a confidence-building way with the president, recognizing that we have our differences, and we will debate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2006] Reference

The Mitchell Plan were confidence-building measures, but the problem with both of those plans is that events have largely superceded their utility.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2002] Reference

And if we are going to make a confidence, let's start the confidence, we'll make sure confidence-building with both coming to the negotiating table.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2006] Reference

ENSOR: Among the confidence-building measures called for in the Mitchell report and endorsed by Powell, a freeze on expansion of Israeli settlements.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2001] Reference

I think we have to be patient and have slow and small confidence-building measures, and we're prepared to begin down the path to see that kind of progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2007] Reference

The three leaders will inaugurate the so-called Roadmap -- a step-by-step series of confidence-building measures that could lead to a Palestinian state in 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Fences Make...] Reference

They also generate confidence-building "razzle-dazzle," as Billy Flynn, the character played by Richard Gere, puts it in the musical named for Obama's hometown.    From Wordnik.com.  [America’s New Shrink] Reference

He doesn't want to sort of steal the news away from the speech tomorrow, but he did say he would be announcing some confidence-building measures, some concrete proposals.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2001] Reference