POLAND'S government is proving eccentric and incompetent; Slovakia's sleazy and thuggish; Hungary's spendthrift and spineless.
Perhaps only my own establishment suffers from their stinging limbs and spineless ways.
The party's big problem, according to this logic, is not that its policies are unpopular but that U-turning on pledges (most notably a commitment to axe university tuition fees) has made it seem spineless and phoney.
In private the company is still talking to customers about changing the shape of future contracts, and appears more inclined nowadays to regard European utilities as potential partners rather than spineless adversaries.Looking reasonable, say cynics, is a ruse to discourage investment in shale reserves and alternative pipelines.
Long before Robert Kagan's 2003 bestseller, "Of Paradise and Power", Europeans regarded Americans as trigger-happy cowboys whereas Americans thought Europeans were spineless softies incapable of making moral distinctions.
It confirms that there is a weakness in HIV's armour, and unveils weapons that might be able to exploit it.In this section A fluttering in the breeze Don't blame your genes Games lessons A spineless solution Correction: Folic acid Reprints Related items AIDS: The ideal and the goodNov 27th 2008The weapons in question are called broadly neutralising antibodies (known as bNAbs in the trade).
This is not the result of any specific instructions, but rather of spineless cringing officials acting pre-emptively.
After providing a backbone for McKinley, a president famously described as "a kindly soul in a spineless body", Hay became the perfect foil for Roosevelt, McKinley's successor.Roosevelt and Hay worked well together.
Not spineless Reprints Related items Spaceflight: Objective, moonMay 26th 2005 Space station: No plan B for outer spaceMar 10th 2005 Lift-off for enterpriseJun 21st 2004 Manned spaceflight: A grand but costly visionJan 15th 2004The decision to assemble the new moonships in orbit lowers the cost of developing the rocket needed to get them off the Earth's surface.
Today, they worry about spineless governments unable to take the tough actions needed to deal with the crisis.
The EU's previous unwillingness to propose sanctions that might impose real costs on the members looked more spineless than ever.The Netherlands, which lost 193 citizens in the attack, including the eminent AIDS researcher Joep Lange (see article), supported a toughened line; Italy, often an obstacle to tightening sanctions, made no attempt to block such moves.
