Sentence examples for timidity towards from inspiring English sources

Why have successive governments of the last 30 years adopted an attitude of such craven timidity towards big business and the professions?

I concluded reluctantly that I could no longer support an organisation producing the worst of all outcomes - timidity towards police accountability and redress for complainants, combined with a drawn-out bureaucratic approach that can penalise innocent police officers, who have a cloud hanging over them sometimes for years.

I was terribly nervous about making friends -- in addition to submerging myself in a completely unfamiliar, and overwhelming urban environment, I was terribly shy, often displaying a reluctant timidity towards strangers.

American timidity during the war prompted a shift in Zaire's foreign policy towards greater engagement with France, which became Zaire's largest supplier of arms after the intervention.

Pure timidity.

Political timidity.

And if in doubt, should prudent policymakers err towards doing too much or too little?At a global level, the answer is surely that boldness beats timidity.

Timidity, though, is unhealthy.

Also timidity, humility, alarm.

Don't expect timidity.

The result was bureaucratic timidity.