Their handling of this crisis will be a textbook example of timid, narrow-minded, intellectually bankrupt leadership.
Spanish business, for example, is remarkably timid, deferential towards government and, with a few exceptions such as the clothing company Zara and the stainless-steel maker Acerinox, reluctant to venture beyond the Spanish-speaking world, even into Europe.
Brassieres, for example, sprinklings of timid ethnic and homophobic humor, and more references to Internet phenomena like YouTube, MySpace and Craigslist than you're likely to encounter in a real superhero picture.
But there was also a streak of recklessness in him that reminded Noel (later Lord) Annan, then assistant tutor, of Guy Burgess as an undergraduate - "they were both scamps who by their example liberated their more timid contemporaries".
For example, a woman who is timid and conservative may be drawn to a man who is sociable and spontaneous.
Ask him about his timid approach to selling state assets, for example, and he retorts that recent coal auctions constitute the "biggest divestment in India's entire history".
Thus, during this last little bit of American history, the president has become too powerful in foreign affairs, and Congress has been too timid to reassert its authority--for example, in reclaiming its power to declare war.
"I am concerned that this might be yet another example of the federal government's timid enforcement strategy against the nation's largest financial institutions," wrote Warren.
For example, you might be quiet and timid like a mouse or brave and loud like a lion.
He promises, for example, "military boards" to look into its timid suggestions of army wrongdoing.
