Example collocations logo

Timid in sentence

196 examples of Timid in a sentence

The progressive economist says that stimulus worked, staving off a much deeper recession – if not worse – but that the measures were too timid to generate a robust recovery.
The almost timid way in which, after France’s victory over Spain, he expressed his love for his mother touched viewers around the world.
It suggests that seriously challenging the nuclear venture will come not from more timid sanctions now, but from measures that encourage the pragmatists who populate the fractious Iranian government to promote normalization.
But the leadership was too timid.
Too timid to undertake serious reforms at home, Japanese authorities fight to keep the yen's value as low as possible against the dollar and rival Asian currencies.
But these forces are too timid and fragmented, with no drive for political action.
After deposing his father in a palace coup in 1995, Al Thani was suddenly confronted with a hostile Saudi Arabia and Egypt, whose elites despised the ambitious young ruler and preferred his more timid father.
“The credit belongs to the man in the arena,” Roosevelt continued, “who spends himself in a worthy cause, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Nevertheless, governments have been very timid in advancing on this front, with the new Basel III rules taking only a baby step toward real change.
A second answer – that politicians have short time horizons, owing to electoral cycles – may contain a kernel of truth, but it is inadequate, because the adverse consequences of timid action often become apparent well before they are up for re-election.
On the contrary, if you are from the upper class, you lay it on thick, you turn yourself into a caricature of the higher born, like the old-fashioned aristocrat who despises the timid bourgeois, but gets on fine with his gamekeeper.
Given the fact that the last president, Muhammad Khatami, was a supporter of the reform movement – albeit a timid one who ultimately accomplished nothing – only underlines how thoroughly the rulers turned around the political situation.
Some timid measures have been implemented, but the general feeling among Germans is best described by the following answer to a survey conducted two months ago by the newspaper Die Welt : “47% of those interviewed plan to cut consumption due to the uncertainty about pensions and health reform.”
Unfortunately, many of the solutions on offer are either too timid or demand too much of a global leadership that is in short supply.
The response to legal abuses has often been timid or declaratory, carried out by individual countries or communities like the European Union in response to specific violations.
Aznar’s current plans are too timid: they tackle only public health expenditures, not the underlying welfare state structure.
Given such a run of successful gambles, why be timid?
In 2005, a timid attempt to foster political integration by adopting a constitutional treaty was defeated in popular referenda in France and the Netherlands.
But one thing has become abundantly clear: their timid efforts so far – personal sanctions, an embargo on weapons exports, and the temporary suspension of Russia’s G-8 membership – have proved to be far from adequate to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to back down.
All this has been horribly turned on its head; in place of our forebears' robust values, we substituted timid, frightened rationalizations for all sorts of voodoo ideologies and practices.
Yet politicians everywhere are timid, especially because oil and coal companies are so politically powerful.
While the presidency has grown stronger over the years, during the Trump administration Congress has been timid and subordinate.
Despite warnings about impending horrors, action was timid.
He argued that a timid BOJ should learn from its more aggressive counterparts, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
Initial restructuring terms often are too timid, relative to the haircut needed to restore solvency.
In the face of clamor from the right to cut even more savagely, statesmen who are too timid to increase public spending would be wise to ignore their advice.
One example of overly timid policies involves policing.
On the few occasions that such resistance was seemingly overcome, the outcome was gradual and timid change.
Yet these countries have so far played a rather unimaginative and timid role in international forums such as the G-20 or the World Trade Organization.
While I hoped that they might be proven right, the recent stream of weak economic data, including May’s timid net job creation of only 69,000, confirmed my doubts.
BackNext