Sentence examples for a timid action from inspiring English sources
Stimulating activity in one of those clusters elicits a timid action such as freezing in place or hiding out.
Lessons from the last big credit crunch, which came after Russia's financial meltdown in August 1998, show that timid action has little effect, while a quick and decisive follow-up move can make a major difference.
This calculus often leads to timid action or to inaction.
Executives never reach the pinnacle of their industry by consistently taking timid action.
British historians have echoed Napoleon's criticism, judging that Centurion was at Linois's mercy and that he had failed to destroy her, in words of William Laird Clowes, because of his "half-hearted and timid action... [that] cannot but provoke censure.
His seeming willingness to say whatever crosses his mind, no matter how impolitic, has cast him as an "authentic" contrast to the more measured - perhaps timid - actions of his competitors.
The vice president picked up where Mr. Bush left off a day earlier, when the president told listeners in Portsmouth, N.H., "The challenges we face today cannot be met with timid actions or bitter words".
No one is suggesting that Mr Cameron should sound a timid, defeatist note when it comes to Isis and its odious actions.
A timid person; a coward.
