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Example sentences for: timidity

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While some conservatives allege that Clinton's unnecessary belligerence provoked the Serbs to ethnic cleansing, others say his timidity about using ground troops "emboldened" the Serbs to the same effect.
Writing in the New York Review of Books , Mark Danner has argued that the administration's predilection for tough talk, coupled with its political timidity, did much to make matters worse in Bosnia.
"The Prime Minister has, through timidity and ineptness, helped to make this monster.
But if Bradley keeps declining the challenge, Gore will turn the "timidity" argument against him.
Pundits agreed that Clinton's remarks and China's decision to air them were bold and made up for 1) Clinton's previous timidity and 2) China's petty, repressive gestures earlier in the trip.