But the Occupy activists said unions were too timid about pushing the interests of workers.
Neither continuing to disregard legitimate Iranian interests nor timid incrementalism will improve the situation.
Currently, with the loosening of the diagnosis of Asperger, children and adults who are shy and timid, who have quirky interests like train schedules and baseball statistics, and who have trouble relating to their peers — but who have no language-acquisition problems — are placed on the autism spectrum.
Yamazaki blamed the reluctance to tackle environmental issues more aggressively on entrenched industrial interests and timid politicians.
If they knew who was investing what, where and why, they might prove rather better at reaping the benefits, as well as at attracting the interest of more timid investors.* "Private Capital Flows to Africa, Perception and Reality".
Charles III's agrarian policy, however, timid in face of landed interests, failed to deal with the greatest obstacles to agricultural progress and to the welfare of the rural masses in Spain large untilled estates and legally unalterable succession in the inheritance of landed property.
He will say in a speech to the thinktank Demos in London that Miliband was right to make the issue of inequality central to to his programme, but the radicalism in the former Labour leader's thinking was often blunted by a timid desire to square vested interests in the party.
With a broken special-interest oriented Congress, timid environmental organizations who don't know how to throw their weight around, and a President unwilling to fight for his campaign promises, it couldn't have happened any other way.
Bradley, who made campaign-finance reform a central issue, attacked Gore as ideologically timid and a captive of Party interest groups.
Mr Prodi's government cut public borrowing and improved tax collection, but proved too timid to take on the vested interests that always resist change.
