Rather than use his party's parliamentary numbers to push through reform, Mr Yudhoyono has stuck with a timid consensus style, building a bigger, weaker six-party coalition than he needs.
Perched on her seat, timid as a sparrow, she takes a look around at her fellow passengers.
However, West Indies, roundly vilified in the Australian media after a timid performance in Brisbane, had embarrassed those pundits with a thoroughly professional performance.
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Yet Cranmer appears a timid provincial alongside Cromwell, who spent years in France and Italy, and who often longs for a southern sun.
Ives' clever wordsmithing is profoundly on display in "The Universal Language", where a timid, stuttering woman, (Jenn Harris), visits the nutty instructor (Elrod) of a class in the artificial language he calls Unamunda.
In this flat, sour, and contrived comedy, Roger (Jon Heder), a timid New York City parking cop who is overmatched at work and in love, signs up for classes with a macho confidence guru, Dr. P. (Billy Bob Thornton), and, taught to find his inner lion, gets up the nerve to ask out his secret dream girl, his Australian grad-student neighbor, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett).
AIG's current management, Greenberg contends, is too timid to make a big acquisition or strategic move.
Americans have a well-earned reputation for risk-taking, but these days we are something of a timid lot.
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In this game, a timid Luigi travels through more mansions and captures more ghosts using his upgraded Poltergust 5000.
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He is unworried by their encounter believing it must be a timid creature.
Tiny Saarland proposes a timid one-year extension of primary school, but may fail to enact the needed constitutional change.
Mr Long is not worried by his encounter and says whatever the 'Beast' is, it is clearly a timid creature that shies from human contact.
Instead of answering any of those questions, the band has offered up a timid collection that catches fire about as often as it lays flat.
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Thanks to Clintonian indifference and mismanagement, the CIA seems to have morphed into a timid, deskbound organization too reliant on gadgetry at the expense of on-the-ground agents.
But the next government, under a timid and indecisive Liberal prime minister, collapsed this summer, when the main leftist partners walked out and teamed up with Mr Brazauskas's lot.
Belatedly, Mr Blair seems to acknowledge that he should be seen to make a principled stand over the treatment of these men, but he sounds too much like a timid supplicant.
Under Rene Preval, who was elected for a second term in 2006, there has been a small but significant improvement in conditions in Haiti: jobs have been created, the slums have become less violent, and there have been some timid signs of a growth in tourism.
Did you bet the house, or where you timid and just dribble a few short shares?
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It produces a more timid, cautious bird, one more likely to survive.
But most seem to think the best defence against a legal assault is to produce a relatively timid redistricting plan in the first place.
Not only do they inhabit a low spot in the office hierarchy and lack experience and skills, but also many are too timid and insecure to assume a leadership role.
So the American actions confirm that the FCPA remains a significant part of U.S. corporate compliance obligations, while the German settlements represent, in many ways, the triumph of a previously timid prosecution service against an iconic local giant.
Inside, guests were shuttled through various stations, treated to platters of dates, tiny cups of strong coffee, henna tattoos, dabs of essential oils like frankincense and sandalwood, and photos of themselves (to be posted online) posing in traditional Arabic garb along with a rather timid-looking falcon.
"Duncan Phillips started off as a kind of timid collector, " Ms. Behrends Frank says.
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Fortunately the press has recently proved a little less timid than the politicians about the role of the armed forces.
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).
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