| It is the weak nerve center of a flabby semistate, with almost defenseless frontiers, where humanitarian rhetoric masks spinelessness. |
| For cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating. |
| It went to the bunker, ranting about a conspiracy by animal rights fanatics and admonishing the biologists for spinelessness. |
| And they have left a space that insurgent parties and anti-sleaze independents are moving into. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that too many politicians are immobilised by a mix of inertia and spinelessness. |
| It's a relief to see him grow because his spinelessness was irritating and becoming tedious. |
| Fischer's obsequiousness is not simply, or even primarily, a reflection of his subjective cowardice and political spinelessness. |
