| Once again, those pusillanimous, patronising, mealy-mouthed lectionary compilers have excelled themselves. |
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| Of course, these allegations do need to be investigated, but I can't help but suspect that the timing is at best pusillanimous. |
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| He will not want to be remembered for tuition fees, nor for the pusillanimous creation of foundation hospitals. |
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| And yes, incidentally, I do know that it's ignoble and cowardly and pusillanimous, but I'll swap you for a decent night's sleep. |
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| The other Congress chief minister cannot be described as pusillanimous by any stretch of imagination. |
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| From the other end of the political spectrum come the pusillanimous speech codes on our college campuses. |
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| He was just too pusillanimous to face me after I'd discovered that he had deceived me. |
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| Eventually, by its own lights, the movie stands or falls by what it has to say about race, and this is pusillanimous and muddled. |
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| On his mission to Fort George he evidently perceived that there was to be no relief column from the pusillanimous Webb. |
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| For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians. |
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| Perhaps by reviewing a few highlights from my former life I might be able to explain how I adopted this pusillanimous attitude. |
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| The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale. |
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| You can thank a crowd of pusillanimous state legislators for that. |
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| Neither of these pusillanimous reactions is remotely appropriate. |
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| They are supposed to abhor pusillanimous or sycophantic behavior. |
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| But I suppose we can rely on you to be as pusillanimous as ever. |
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| Although their predicament has not been helped by pusillanimous ministers, they have not covered themselves in glory. |
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| It is a pusillanimous, jargon-ridden, self-perpetuating proof of Parkinson's law. |
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| It is this pusillanimous view of humanity that has led us to this point where the future seems so grim. |
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| I can only conclude that we in this House have become too pusillanimous to carry on protecting our own interests as Europeans. |
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| As the level of gambling increases, so does problem gambling that cannot possibly be avoided or dealt with by the pusillanimous measures in the bill. |
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| But on this issue of Haredi service his pusillanimous silence has been disappointing and self-defeating. |
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| Mr President, this is the fourth resolution that I have tabled on Burma in the last 18 months, but the situation continues to deteriorate and the Council's reaction is pusillanimous. |
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| If they grow frustrated, they could turn again against the new order. Meanwhile Mr Maliki, no longer considered weak and pusillanimous, has continued to strengthen his own position. |
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| In other words, it must not take the world another 15 years to cut emissions and get something as weak and pusillanimous as the current Kyoto Protocol. |
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| It was a very preposterous, and a very pusillanimous proposition. |
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| But perhaps the more important point is that with unions on the back foot, there could be more room for reform in France than pusillanimous politicians think. |
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| Other words heard during the day were caliginous, creophagy and pusillanimous. |
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| The university must be able to grasp them, without being either presumptuous or pusillanimous, if it is to remain worthy of its calling and contribute to the shaping of the future. |
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| It would be easy to despair, to resign oneself to believing that they are a pusillanimous bunch of stooges driven by a desire to climb the greasy pole. |
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| It would set a dangerous precedent and the Council of Europe would be the pusillanimous architect of a code of conduct which would deliver nothing, but deal a blow to the common values that the Assembly held dear. |
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| This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck. |
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| He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. |
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