| Would Americans who surrendered so cravenly to McCarthyism, when only their jobs were at risk, really have defied a life-threatening tyranny? |
| Both Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband know this, but they are cowed by widespread hostility to the influx. Europe is another issue where they should try to lead public opinion, not cravenly follow it. |
| Well, at least they have a good excuse for a cravenly political move. |
| It is not that they are scared of death, nor that they are cravenly clinging to life. |
| Inevitably, Mark Carney, the supine, new governor of the Bank of England, cravenly gave in barely putting up a fight. |
| The courts have sentenced hundreds of protesters to death, though the sentences are unlikely to be carried out. Most of Egypt's media have become cravenly sycophantic and xenophobic, and independent voices have been muzzled. |
