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Example sentences for: timid

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Murdoch, who is now an American citizen, criticized Australian Prime Minister John Howard for opposing a republic and said Howard was generally too "timid" in his reforms.
The supposedly timid Davis pushed through bold HMO reform, an aggressive assault-weapon ban, mandatory high-school exit exams, and peer review for teachers.
So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox.
It said that the 15 leaders of the European Union, meeting in Helsinki this weekend, managed to achieve nothing more than "timid warnings" to Moscow that they would suspend certain cooperation agreements if it didn't stop bombing the Chechens.
you staring out from those bulging eyes asking frankly for my sympathy, yet timid, apologetic, only doing your job-- my familiar flying through rising fumes to drag me from my car.