He's as timid as a rabbit.

But the leadership was too timid.

A mouse is a timid creature.

Given such a run of successful gambles, why be timid?

Political pressure on Europe s central bank may be the reason for that timid move.

But these forces are too timid and fragmented, with no drive for political action.

For this model, as we have seen in Russia, leads to populist democracy and timid reform.

Flustered, he stopped speaking, waved his arms in timid bewilderment, the weak and ineffectual gestures of an imposter.

They are too timid. We need a comprehensive and revolutionary reframing of education, work, retirement, and leisure time.

Take away US imports and the timid growth Europe has seen in the past year would immediately disappear.

They are either too cynical or timid in their vision of the world, or they have others priorities, or both.

He argued that a timid BOJ should learn from its more aggressive counterparts, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.

The almost timid way in which, after France s victory over Spain, he expressed his love for his mother touched viewers around the world.

In 2005, a timid attempt to foster political integration by adopting a constitutional treaty was defeated in popular referenda in France and the Netherlands.

Unfortunately, many of the solutions on offer are either too timid or demand too much of a global leadership that is in short supply.

Nevertheless, governments have been very timid in advancing on this front, with the new Basel III rules taking only a baby step toward real change.

Yet these countries have so far played a rather unimaginative and timid role in international forums such as the G 20 or the World Trade Organization.

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.

The response to legal abuses has often been timid or declaratory, carried out by individual countries or communities like the European Union in response to specific violations.

While I hoped that they might be proven right, the recent stream of weak economic data, including May s timid net job creation of only 69,000, confirmed my doubts.

In the face of clamor from the right to cut even more savagely, statesmen who are too timid to increase public spending would be wise to ignore their advice.

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.

It suggests that seriously challenging the nuclear venture will come not from more timid sanctions now, but from measures that encourage the pragmatists who populate the fractious Iranian government to promote normalization.

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.

The fault does not lie exclusively in President Felipe Calderón s timid counter cyclical measures, or in the country s social policy, or in the drop of manufacturing exports, or in the US financial crisis.

On Jeune Afrique, Trésor Kibungula illustrates the evolution of M23 on Facebook , from a timid start back in July, to a media platform sufficiently controversial that Facebook eventually had to shut it down.

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.

Given the fact that the last president, Muhammad Khatami, was a supporter of the reform movement albeit a timid one who ultimately accomplished nothing only underlines how thoroughly the rulers turned around the political situation.

After deposing his father in a palace coup in 1995, Al Thani was suddenly confronted with a hostile Saudi Arabia and Egypt, whose elites despised the ambitious young ruler and preferred his more timid father.

Ould Abdel Aziz slams Al Caida when it threatens France's interests (in Mauritania) but he is a timid cat when Mauritanians are slaughtered. The incident is just a sale and acquisition issue and nothing more.

In particular, I consider its approach on legal and illegal trafficking of small arms and light weapons instruments, which are the instruments of crime, to be very timid, and it shows very little progress on the issue of development.

Disgruntlement over the increasingly authoritarian governance may be common among business circles, elements of the neutered political opposition, liberal intellectuals, and even part of the bureaucracy. But these forces are too timid and fragmented, with no drive for political action.

Two years ago my Government inherited a situation of economic stagnation, recession, sterile political antagonism, violence, growing poverty and weak and unreliable public institutions that led to timid social policies that were a long way from addressing the Millennium Development Goals.

I tend to think that the reason was related to having migrated to the capital, where we were an obvious minority or, I don t know, perhaps it was a timid attempt to protect us, giving us one less reason to be different.

Draghi left it up to national banks to decide whether to use the liquidity to buy high yield government bonds. 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.