Examples of credibility

• A mistake like that will do his credibility a lot of harm.

• The result of the vote poses a serious challenge to the government's credibility.

• With five consecutive defeats, the manager has lost all credibility.

• Pre-colonial agents used signals that reduced the social distance between sender and receiver to convey their credibility to outsiders they wanted to trade with.

• Furthermore, agents' ability to exit voluntarily social groups strongly signaled their credibility to existing group members where they stayed.

• Copper coinage was the domestic currency that hitherto had enjoyed a credibility bestowed by its official acceptance.

• Credibility problems do not allow the central bank to carry out an autonomous monetary policy.

• Signals of credibility predicated on adopting degrees of homogeneity are therefore focal, and signal receivers look for them in evaluating the credibility of outsiders.