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From the EU’s timid Barcelona Process of the 1990’s to the damp squib of the current Union for the Mediterranean, Europe has been torn between a concern to stave off trouble and unrest in North Africa and its self-interested measures to protect its culture and economy.
An expansion of trade, with estimated benefits exceeding $100 trillion annually toward the end of the century, would do thousands of times more good than timid feel-good policies that result from fear-mongering.
In the spirit of post-war reconciliation that diplomats are always keen to engender, we must not reconcile ourselves to the timid, blighted notion that world order requires us to recoil before rogue states that terrorize their citizens and menace our own.
On July 24, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin initiated the first act by fiercely attacking, without evidence, the timid owner of the giant coal and steel company Mechel for price-gouging and tax evasion.
This was a timid but helpful initial step in the right direction.
Take away US imports and the timid growth Europe has seen in the past year would immediately disappear.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and France’s central bank (a member of the ECB) were less timid; they urged Italian and Spanish banks to buy their governments’ debt.
For this model, as we have seen in Russia, leads to populist democracy and timid reform.
China patiently bore this pattern of intermittent brinkmanship and timid reform, largely owing to its belief that the risks posed by the Kim dynasty could be controlled as long as China did not cut off the regime’s lifeline of oil, food, and other necessities.
And yet unions in Japan remain timid, and workers remain traumatized from 15 years of deflation.
A couple of reforms were belatedly enacted: timid intervention on pensions and a further increase in labor-market flexibility.
At their June summit, the member states agreed that there have to be some reforms of the institutions before the next enlargements, but they set a timid reform agenda limited to some minor tinkering at the edges.
In fact, the requirement was very timid, posing so many restrictions in terms of quantity and length of ownership as to leave the bar to institutional investors effectively in place.
They are too timid.
Fear of machines that can liberate us from drudgery is a symptom of a timid and divided society.
The reason is simple: the much-maligned state was permitted to pursue only timid policy responses.
Flustered, he stopped speaking, waved his arms in timid bewilderment, the weak and ineffectual gestures of an imposter.
They are either too cynical or timid in their vision of the world, or they have others priorities, or both.
He’s an outsourced human-resources executive who flies around the country firing people on behalf of timid managers; she’s a counterpart female road warrior.
Experts can disagree about whether the move was premature, but no one agrees with the many political leaders who have argued that the tiny hike will derail the timid resumption of economic growth.
Yet Europe has been too timid in policing cash flows into and out of banks.
When Europeans first made contact with the Sentinelese, the British naval commander Maurice Vidal Portman described them in 1899 as “painfully timid.”
They beat back the populist League party leader, Matteo Salvini, and demonstrated that the exponents of illiberalism are only as strong as we are timid.
Macri could have spent more of that political capital on a gradual – but substantial – fiscal adjustment early on, pushed sooner for pension reform, and tacked further left on issues like human rights and abortion, where, as an avowed liberal, he should have been less timid.
In France, decision-making is highly centralized, policies are uniform (despite some timid attempts by Macron’s government to promote flexibility), and civic participation is weak.
So far, the EU has not taken a strategic approach to reshaping the global financial architecture, and its response to China’s global investment and development activities has been timid at best.
Second, there is a fear of “fiscal dominance,” whereby the ECB becomes timid about raising interest rates in the future, lest balance-sheet losses require it to be recapitalized by governments, thus compromising its independence.
In recent years, timid attempts at mediation by the Vatican, Spain, and others went nowhere because that is where Maduro, unwilling to negotiate away his own dictatorial power, wanted them to go.
This is not a time for timid or symbolic action.
He could not believe it was all true and only realized it when their surprised and timid glances met and he felt that they were already one.
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