Why are so few people scandalised by the timorous, seemingly complacent, way that the police behaved? |
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And we have become a surprisingly timorous nation because we don't ask our leaders, our politicians serious questions. |
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Even a timorous proposal to convert taxis from diesel to less-polluting petrol five years ago failed to win legislative support. |
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But the thinking behind it is consistent with the rather timorous, hands-off approach to recent conflicts. |
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He is proof that violence is needed to contain violence and that one just man will prevail over the corrupt mob and timorous crowd. |
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It has often been said that the Barcelona process was a partial failure, and it is true that we were timorous. |
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Three examples clearly demonstrate that the Council has taken a far more timorous position than the Commission or even the European Parliament. |
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It makes no sense to wear a helmet, if the helmet is too large or if, due to precautions of timorous mother, a cap may be worn below it. |
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On the contrary, if the style is too formal, this may cause a timorous respondent to close down even more. |
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Nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite, so that to the Anglo-American lay mind the aristocratic boletes are, at best, reformed toadstools. |
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In this case, the higher powers are film censors, whether philistine Senators or the timorous, arbitrary ethicists of the MPAA, valiantly guarding us from ourselves. |
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Away with this timorous advice of fainthearted men, we stand by the example of our stout-hearted men of fifty years ago. |
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Like many diaries that are written to order or published too quickly, it manages to sound both timorous and contrived. |
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He was a timorous specimen, terrified of taking a chance on being deprived of a living. |
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Some are behemoths in the truest sense of the word, massive as oil tankers, others, small knock-kneed and timorous and as prone to panic attacks as barking deer. |
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So there are enormous consequences for all of us when the owners elect not to act like owners, but like timorous lackeys desperate to please management. |
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If it had been, a particularly vicious correction must have occurred to turn Britain back into the timorous, conservative country it became in the Seventies. |
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There is still a strong impression that the party's political approach remains timorous and lacks creativity when it comes to figuring out new responses to old problems. |
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Girls, allegedly timorous and lacking in confidence, now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and in debating clubs. |
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Alas, the sad truth is that the CIA, despite its Bourne Identity reputation, has become a timorous, risk-averse bureaucracy. |
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The CIA, despite its cowboy image, is in fact in many ways a timorous, risk-averse bureaucracy. |
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The problem was timorous shepherds who failed to protect the flock, and especially the lambs, fearing to confront the wolves admitted to the sheepfold. |
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He said that a timorous decision from the Committee in this matter would be a step back from the 21st to the 19th century. |
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I had been transformed from timorous novice to impassioned biker. |
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But even by facing the interdictions, Laken has great difficulty to open out in her relation with Ted, this one being moreover particularly timid and awkward, quite timorous. |
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The most obvious is that, as a result of its functioning democracy, zealous bureaucracy and timorous or lethargic governments, Britain has a slapdash approach to heritage. |
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In Agenda 21 for culture the approaches and positioning taken by actors, who are no longer timorous but rather by working together have achieved a great deal of maturity, are precipitated and crystallised. |
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I am serious, sparkling, caring, timorous, dedicated, balanced, warm. |
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On a more subtle level, it will also take a reasoned resistance to fear to ensure that the progress of mankind does not give way to a state of timorous inertia. |
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A class of politicians seems to have been up to no good for a long period of time, and to have assumed that the timorous French justice system would never act. |
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The man inherited a lousy newspaper and imbued it with such excellence that not even timorous editors, clueless publishers, and lamebrained C. E. O.s have been able to ruin it. |
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His mother, Archduchess Sophie, takes pity on the timorous Sisi. |
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True religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other. |
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The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form, as being a most timorous and solitary creature. |
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Timorous and weak-willed, Chrysothemis is a foil to Elektra, and soprano Check played her as such, while also nailing some dead-on high B-flats. |
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