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).
He oversaw a humiliating military retreat from Lebanon, the scandal of Iran-Contra, a too-timid response to the AIDS epidemic and a lot of inept deregulation, some of which contributed to the savings and loans crisis that led to a taxpayer bail-out under the first President Bush.
AIG's current management, Greenberg contends, is too timid to make a big acquisition or strategic move.
In a country where few dare speak out, Myanmar's students are not a timid bunch.
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Standing up to dictators often elicits more respect than a timid word in their ear, he says.
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.
Her son, Rahul Gandhi, a timid would-be prime minister, was as ever absent, pottering around in the politics of Uttar Pradesh.
Only he can sway a timid Congress, clear the way for his appointees, and move the country toward the restoration of its military power.
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.
So we really don't know how he feels about being called a timid and overly decent man who avoids confrontation at the cost of credibility.
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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With a general election due early next year but likely to be held this year, it has grown even more timid, in a variety of areas.
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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.
In a compelling Washington Post essay packed with disturbing facts and figures, Middle East expert Robert Satloff writes an effective indictment against the State Department for what is increasingly seen as a timid and counterproductive public diplomacy campaign.
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.
Third, the once-timid parliament as a whole is brimming with confidence after its unexpected success in toppling the commission en masse back in March, after the publication of a report outlining nepotism and incompetence and now the institution has the powers to back up its new boldness.
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