Sentence examples for timid proposals from inspiring English sources

The Commission has begun to make some timid proposals to stimulate growth.

This is the great weakness of the current health-reform effort, which contains only timid proposals (such as a toothless independent commission to advise on Medicare costs, and mere pilot programmes to curb costs and improve quality).

Instead, he served up a thin menu of, so to speak, Democrat veggies: rhetorical recognition that health care, education, and energy are problems, with a side dish of timid proposals, mostly drawn from the conservative think-tank cookbook, that the new Congress is sure to send back to the kitchen.

WHILE Labour and the Conservatives began their election campaigns by squabbling about whether the Tories' timid tax proposals would mean the end of civilisation, the Liberal Democrats quietly got going too.

First Mr López Obrador seized on a timid government proposal to open up parts of Mexico's declining oil industry to private investment.

(Note that strong modal fictionalists who take their theory to not be descriptive of current usage are unlikely to be tempted by the claim of analytic equivalence and will have to demur from Divers's timid fictionalist proposal, so they at least face an open question if they want the equivalent of a "possible worlds semantics" in Divers's rich sense).

Today, citing the disparity between the overall size of the candidates' plans, the Gore campaign called the new Bush teacher proposal timid, saying the vice president wants to spend far more for teacher training and other measures.

Too bad the White House continues to block Congress' all-too-timid tax cut proposals.

But in hearing after hearing this week, Congressional Democrats, also angling for public favor, have criticized the president's proposals as timid and too friendly to corporations.

Hares are cheered by the party's emerging education policy, which offers the prospect of greater choice and competition, but deplore its health-care proposals as timid and soft on doctors.

The White House proposals, although timid by the standards of other countries, are likely to come up against strong opposition from gun enthusiasts and powerful lobbying groups such as the National Rifle Association.