Sentence examples for timid ground from inspiring English sources

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Kournikova, who had frittered away service in the second and third sets with nervous double faults and timid ground strokes, finally composed herself.

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Try to avoid the nesting season (May-July) because the deserted beach is one of the best sites for the timid, ground-nesting ringed plover.

An hour later, on two more match points, she sprayed ground strokes with timid swings.

But all this timid step shows is the vastness of the ground Britain has to make up.

Back in Houston, there was a bit of rivalrous grumbling among some astronauts about what they called a timid performance, but Armstrong had the support of the cautious operational men on the ground.

Thanks to Clintonian indifference and mismanagement, the CIA seems to have morphed into a timid, deskbound organization too reliant on gadgetry at the expense of on-the-ground agents.

At a recent get-together in a Prussian palace, the cabinet found enough common ground to produce 12 pages of promises, but even the best are only timid steps in the right direction.

President Obama seems to have recently discarded the advice of timid advisors who bought into the media's "overexposed" myth last summer, and has hit the ground running in the past few weeks.

Raihana, a timid 9-year-old whose school was hit by a rocket on Friday, stared at the ground, covered her face with a black silk shawl and mumbled answers to questions from a foreigner.

In place of his recent timid, disparage-the-Tories-but-give-nothing-away approach he has the chance to stride on to genuinely new ground, leaving behind the old Labour producer interests and nanny-state mentality that have so bedevilled the party in the past.The riskYet would the real Tony Blair be that radical, ground-breaking, opinion-leading prime minister?

The economic references committee described Asic as a "timid, hesitant regulator" that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.

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