Sentence examples for timid power from inspiring English sources

In international politics, Mexico remains a timid power: Brazil has almost three times as many diplomats.Brazil has spent the past 20 years trying to build a South American bloc whose core is Mercosur, a protectionist would-be customs union.

In recent years the British political parties and the leaders of our public services have become increasingly media-facing, too timid of the power of the press, too eager to keep the media on-side.

Some Democrats in Congress have vowed to change this by giving the F.D.A. more authority, and the agency's critics say it is too timid with the power it has.

Wilkins rages that men "so distinguished and so powerful could have been so timid about using that power in the cause of freedom".

Their timid attempts have kept power within narrow dynastic elites, be these the thousands of Saudi princes or the suited generals and apparatchiks who control Algeria's oil wealth.

I take issue with your criticism of President Obama's use of his power to pardon ("Timid Use of the Pardon Power," editorial, March 5).

It isn't possible anymore — not because timid people have risen to power in journalism but because the government, in steady increments over the past generation, has deregulated broadcasting.

Europe has given up its independence, Kristol asserted, becoming "a quasiautonomous protectorate of the U.S". Europe has given up the capacity to project military power, growing too timid to commit its forces to action anywhere in the world unless the U.S. commits its forces first.

Brand is right that we are too stunted in our sense of political possibility and too timid in our approach to entrenched power.

The claim that New Labour was too timid about the accountability of "the power structure" in Britain rings true in the wake of News International and Libor.

Such is this boy, whose character is more antisocial than timid and whose imagination combines great powers with unheard-of corruption and who has fascinated and terrified all our friends".