The solution is "both-and". A body that's too flexible lacks firmness and risks injury.
US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Westmoreland and the Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were supportive of the Kỳ-Thiệu regime, their prosecution of the war against the communists and support of a US escalation, and they opposed Thi, regarding him as lacking firmness against communism.
In October 1948 Gen. Manuel Odría seized power, protesting the president's lack of firmness in dealing with the radicals, and extreme measures were taken to suppress the Apristas.
Nixon has up to now been a politician whose convictions have been charactirized by their lack of firmness and whose commitments to policy have been- sometimes notoriously so- the opposite of irrevocable... View Article By Miranda Carter By Jia Tolentino By Amos Barshad By Emily Nussbaum.
Nixon has up to now been a politician whose convictions have been charactirized by their lack of firmness and whose commitments to policy have been- sometimes notoriously so- the opposite of irrevocable.
This was a sign both of official Europe's weakness in defence of free speech but also, for some Americans, of a godless continent's failure to understand the depth of other people's faith.In running their economies, observes Charles Kupchan, one of Washington's veteran Europe-watchers, the Europeans know what is needed but lack the firmness to do the right thing.
With disgraceful lack of firmness he named men, excused them, made substitutions, as they pleaded with him to stay or go, according to their fears or hopes.
Justice Hugo Black said that to treat the editorial as a threat to the judicial process "would be to impute to judges a lack of firmness, wisdom or honor, which we cannot accept as a major premise".
Aging signs can be classified into four main categories: wrinkles/texture, lack of firmness of cutaneous tissues (ptosis), vascular disorders, and pigmentation heterogeneities.
By merging the two sets of clinical scales, we obtained a complete mapping of facial aging covering four major axes: wrinkles and relief texture (Table 3), lack of firmness, pigmentary disorders (Table 4), and vascular alterations (Table 5).
As authoritarian and determined as he sometimes appeared, he lacked the firmness and independence of judgment that a surer sense of confidence in himself might have afforded him.
