Sentence examples for lacking initiative from inspiring English sources

Mr. Aufhauser praised the Saudis for more tightly regulating their country's banks and charities but described Saudi counterterrorism efforts as "halting, lacking initiative, at times insincere".

Nobody could accuse the 29-year-old teacher from Porto of lacking initiative.

He thought he was somehow lacking initiative and worried that colleagues would view him as "less than capable".

Ron later reveals he knows Tom loses on purpose, but doesn't mind because Tom is his idea of a model employee: unproductive, lacking initiative and a poor team player.

(Community women's FGD) The women then turned around and castigated men for lacking initiative, being irresponsible with money, and being addicted to liquor.

However, experts have detected a shift in the government's attitude towards Prevent, with a realisation on the part of policy-makers and security professionals that overall counter-terrorism efforts were lacking initiatives to improve community cohesion.

He wasn't shy, but lacked initiative to stand up and take a lead".

While he lacked initiative, his intent wasn't dishonorable; he was not trying to con you into a second job.

They lacked initiative, and sat back and murmured to one another while the Canadians interviewed a local farmer.

Thick-handle manual or electric toothbrushes do serve a purpose, he acknowledged, but primarily for people who are handicapped or who lack initiative.

For all their grace and "greater abstract agility," they lack initiative, and have let a mindless, pancake-shaped creature take over their habitat, resigning themselves to eventual extinction.