Sentence examples for craven decision from inspiring English sources
"The trustees' craven decision is an offence against open intellectual discussion and freedom of thought.
"The school made the conscious and craven decision to protect its reputation," Kevin Mulhearn, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told me Monday.
But the fatuous and craven decision by both David Cameron ("completely misguided") and Ed Miliband ("pretty offensive") to back up blatant falsehood in search of a populist soundbite is simply pathetic.
He was denied the popular mandate he so badly needs to govern a shattered country by the craven decision of his rival, Carlos Menem, himself a former president, to avoid overwhelming defeat by pulling out of a run-off ballot.
That is a polite way of asking Congress to reverse its craven decision four years ago to give the politically powerful broadcasters spectrum rights worth perhaps $70 billion without demanding anything meaningful in return.
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Lonergan's history with Hollywood began, oddly enough, when, as a promising but unknown playwright, he made a very cleareyed, even craven, business decision — which wound up paying off very well.
At the meeting Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Craven said the decision not to merge was made after the district law office reviewed the contract with American Quality Schools and determined that the district could run the school on its own.
This is a politician who never made craven or reactionary decisions, just tough choices and hard compromises.
In an open letter published on Medium.com, James A. Millward, a professor of history at Georgetown University, had called the original decision "a craven, shameful and destructive concession" to the People's Republic of China's growing censorship regime.
Almost universally, Israel's columnists depicted his decision as craven careerism supported by similar ambition on the part of Shimon Peres, the party elder who is likely to be Mr. Sharon's foreign minister.
