Sentence examples for thought soft on from inspiring English sources

And he was particularly caught by, what I mentioned before, the fear of liberals of being thought soft on communism.

Just as Richard Nixon could open relations with China without being thought soft on communism, so conservatives can push for sentencing reform without being considered soft on crime.

Many of the Labour MPs arguing in favour do so not because they regard nuclear weapons as an essential tool in our armoury, but because they are terrified of being thought "soft" on defence.

As shadow home secretary, and then as home secretary, he proposed illiberal policies, such as increasing police powers and restricting jury trials, mainly because he didn't want Labour to be thought "soft on crime".

A recent visit to UP by Digvijay Singh, an influential congressman, to see relatives of two Muslim youths killed by police and allegedly framed with terrorism charges, was a sign of this.Yet Congress is also terrified of being thought soft on Muslims, and so provoking a backlash whipped up by its Hindu-nationalist rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

4. Think soft skills, not major topics.

In spring think soft, loose curls.

I think being soft on drugs is pretending there isn't a problem, and this is being sorted.

She even quit the Dutch Labour Party for the liberals because she thought it too soft on illiberal Islam.

Why would Jimmy want something owned by an unemployed Englishman who was thought to be soft on the Nazis?

But some Asian countries thought to be soft on trafficking, among them Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, are anti-terrorist allies of America and as a result may have slipped the noose of sanctions into tier two.