She encouraged an entrepreneurial culture that had grown timid and somnolent.
And perhaps because they serve only part time, they have grown timid in taking forceful actions.
But on climate change Obama grew timid and gave up, leaving the dysfunctional Senate to figure out the issue on its own.
They want us to grow timid and weary in the face of their willingness to kill randomly and kill innocent people".
He had been enthusiastic, but he now fears officials have grown timid.Such concerns were hardly allayed when the authorities released a "negative list" of sectors in which foreigners cannot invest in the zone.
Some Congressional Democrats and party activists complain the party has grown timid about government spending at an inopportune time, arguing that federal spending is needed to sustain the economic recovery.
Neither the Asahi's comfort-women stories nor its Fukushima coverage drew upon the kisha clubs.The Asahi Shimbun may now grow more timid.
At the same time they have grown more timid for fear of offending the "social consensus, however dumb or even vicious the consensus".
MEMPHIS — Since being suspended for two games after punching an opponent in the face earlier this month, Baylor's 6-foot-8 center Brittney Griner had grown somewhat timid, reluctant to fully exert herself, knowing the referees would pay her increased scrutiny.
Europe has given up its independence, Kristol asserted, becoming "a quasiautonomous protectorate of the U.S". Europe has given up the capacity to project military power, growing too timid to commit its forces to action anywhere in the world unless the U.S. commits its forces first.
