Sentence examples for more timid in from inspiring English sources

The episode hasn't made her any more timid in the face of outrage.

But as prime minister since 2004, he has been far more timid in pushing through a second major round of policy changes.

Another top Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the big question for him was whether the revelations would make the Palestinians more timid in future negotiations because of public indignation.

But others contended that the agency had been more timid in pursuing compounders since the Supreme Court decision, in part because building a case meant figuring out how to defend it in court, and anchoring an argument is difficult because there are no laws or regulations formally defining compounded medications.

They also fear that the language in Smith's bills will lead researchers to be more timid in what they propose, out of fear that NSF will reject bolder ideas to avoid invoking the wrath of legislators.

"Research advocates... fear that the language in Smith's bills will lead researchers to be more timid in what they propose, out of fear that NSF will reject bolder ideas to avoid invoking the wrath of legislators.

Pension reforms have been widespread in the last few years, but health care reform has been more timid, and in many countries remains the key long-term challenge for public finances.

"Even with full employment, workers may be more timid than in earlier periods of full employment, when unions were also stronger," said Jared Bernstein, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute.

Yet more timid administrators in other districts should realize that the Faribault administrators' actions protected rather than jeopardized the district because had LeVake ever taught creationism and had the district been sued as a result, it surely would have lost.

Sessions lasted from one and a half to two hours but always ended up in social drinking where some of the opinions left out by the more timid participants in the groups gradually emerged.

He has a swagger and a temper, and there's a constant feeling that Wendy Shelley Duvalll) – so much more timid and subservient in the film than the novel, reduced to little more than a long face and a shrill voice – hasn't left him because she's just too weak.