Sentence examples for timid efforts from inspiring English sources

In the early 2000s the Bank of Japan's timid efforts at battling deflation with money-printing failed.

But some brands are finding that people will applaud even their most timid efforts to deviate from the standard model physique.

Mike Pelfrey (8-6) workeightght confident innings in an outing that was nothing like the timid efforts that nearly forced him from the rotation earlier this season.

She needs to appoint a competent finance minister, who must be allowed to do the job without interference from the presidential palace, to redouble her timid efforts to attract private investment into infrastructure, and to attempt a tax reform.

Recall Andrew Green QC's damning verdict – "materially flawed" – in November on the old Financial Services Authority's timid efforts back in 2009 that led to action against only Peter Cummings, the bank's former head of corporate lending.

In previous, more timid, efforts to push changes, Congress had seemed woefully prepared for the anger and resistance of its allies.This time, crucially, the likes of Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, who helps prop up Mr Singh's government in Delhi, will have to be allowed to pull off a delicate act.

"The results are weak but quite proportional to a slow and timid effort".

A stream of bloggers on some of Nigeria's most popular websites, in response to comments made after the country's timid effort in last month's Africa Cup of Nations.

A small force of NATO troops swooped into Celebici by helicopter one day earlier this year, eager to silence critics who complained of a hitherto timid effort to get their man.

It was a timid effort to say the least but par scratches another hole off.

No health care reform, no financial reform, no labor law reform, and a slow, timid effort on job creation.