Sentence examples for a timid step from inspiring English sources

Things took a timid step toward transgression when I turned out the light so that no one would see me watching.

It's a sign of how powerful the political voodoo protecting health spending remains that even such a timid step looks dramatic.

The Paris Agreement reached during the COP21 in December 2015 represents a timid step towards burden sharing in emission mitigation involving all countries.

After this latest tragedy at Sandy Hook that left 20 children dead, Reid took a timid step forward, saying it was time to "engage in a meaningful conversation and thoughtful debate about how to change laws and culture that allow violence to grow".

President Clinton's government has taken a few timid steps to encourage more "people-to-people" contact.

I take a few timid steps to get closer to the mirror.

But all this timid step shows is the vastness of the ground Britain has to make up.

I have been involved with the charity Women in Prison, of which I am a trustee, for almost 30 years and have witnessed a repeated pattern of timid steps forward (brave Corston proposals) followed by a lunge back as politicians appeal to some of the electorate's more primitive instincts.

Ms. Lewis's swirling entrance (she was dressed in orange glitter and a turban) on Wednesday evening was so grand and gaudy it made Norma Desmond's descent on a staircase in "Sunset Boulevard" look like the timid steps of a wallflower.

Both Microsoft and Google stress that these developments are but the first timid steps into a beautiful future — a future where search pages know what you mean, display exactly the information you want with one click, and even perform tasks for you.

Gambling that voters would be afraid of rapid change, notably after Argentina's 2000-2002 economeltdowndown, Mr Scioli was offering a more "gradualist" platform with more timid steps to deal with the imbalances including the outstanding debt, which bars the country from international debt markets, and an out-of-kilter currency that is ripe for a devaluation.