Sentence examples for timid policy from inspiring English sources

He also warned that the euro zone, "with a more timid policy response than elsewhere," runs a risk of "a more prolonged and damaging period of deflation".

The existence of these constraints is part of political reality, but for many progressives there is a sense that the administration has used these constraints to rationalize away their relative inaction and timid policy making.

Armed with some good ideas his leadership was unfortunately built on timid policies and mugs that read "Controls on immigration".

"It is clear that a dangerous gap in credibility has developed between President Bush's tough rhetoric and timid policies which don't do nearly enough to protect Americans from danger," he said.

Economist Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner both won their economic spurs by pushing through extraordinarily poor and timid policies.

Basel's study is timid on policy prescription, but it strengthens the case for standardization.

In fact, I was referring not simply to that discount rate but to Sunstein's timid climate policy as a whole.

The Bank of England's timid monetary policy committee should not have sat on its hands last week; it should have expanded further its programme of quantitative easing.

And on the spending side, while criticizing Mr. Obama's proposals as too timid, the policy changes that the Republicans have endorsed – such as raising the Medicare retirement age and slowing cost-of-living increases for Social Security – fall well short of Mr. Obama's.

"Timid public policy toward joblessness will be a growing factor in the buildup to the 2012 race.

No one can accuse the George W. Bush administration of a timid foreign policy, but it, too, ultimately did little more than stand by as Russia invaded Georgia in 2008.