Sentence examples for timid measures from inspiring English sources

"Our security will not be gained by timid measures".

In a statement, Corbyn, who last week topped the polls in the Labour leadership race, said: "The time for timid measures is over".

Individual member countries appear defenseless, like sitting ducks, before speculators who perceive the timid measures taken so far as an invitation to continue mounting their attacks.

It is too late for cloud shots and timid half measures.

But Sanders himself put the lie to that when he talked about how no matter how much a president talks radical change with a Congress that won't support even the timidest reform measures, it's all just a feel good field of dreams.

Many will agree with the UK that the Commission has been far too timid in proposing measures to open up our vast single market.

They grow increasingly frustrated as members of Congress emerge from their marble corridors for obligatory listening tours, only to offer timid, half-hearted measures.

It is less than two months since his agency, a branch of the Treasury Department, was liberated from superiors who dared not support even the timidest gun-control measures for fear of offending the lobbyists and paymasters of the National Rifle Association.

But analysts called the measures too timid in the face of the problems plaguing Japan's export-oriented economy.

Measures far more courageous than Brown's timid suggestion of "reductions" are required, measures such as the elimination of nuclear weapons of which Obama spoke.

"But their measures remain too timid, with many quotas still set above the recommended levels.