Besides provoking popular anger, the concentration of wealth has, timidly, entered the political agenda.

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Press timidly on the gas pedal and the thing accelerates to more than 160kph in a hundred meters.

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Timidly trimming a bit from every department each year, in the hope that good times return, will not work.

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To timidly aspire to appease the last skeptic may well be our demise.

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Press timidly on the gas pedal and the thing accelerates to over 100mph in the length of a football field.

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That partly reflects the fact that the economic liberalisation nudged forward by Muhammad Khatami, Mr Ahmadinejad's timidly liberalising predecessor, has been halted.

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She smiled and, without a word, timidly handed me a magazine.

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Some are already timidly criticizing the International Monetary Fund, the speculators, the capital flows across borders, the right of the self-appointed market forces to discipline elected governments.

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Insects were chirring timidly, as if short of breath.

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Nor is it necessarily true that anyone counseling a lengthy public conversation on Medicare and Social Security reform running up to a presidential election is timidly kicking the can down the road to avoid the subject.

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My first big splash on the internet came in 2004 when I was one of the first 30 podcasters in the world, hand-coding my RSS feed and speaking timidly into a microphone, broadcasting intimate thoughts to a global audience.

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