He is a timid man.

She seems timid, but she's actually a strong willed person.

OK. So, the first one I was very timid, and I'll begin.

Books have saved the introverted, timid child that I was that I once was.

Flustered, he stopped speaking, waved his arms in timid bewilderment, the weak and ineffectual gestures of an imposter. This moment of truth lasted only a few seconds, but it was enough.

Indeed, the world itself cannot afford the disappearance of the US current account deficit at least not quickly. Take away US imports and the timid growth Europe has seen in the past year would immediately disappear.

In particular, I consider its approach on legal and illegal trafficking of small arms and light weapons instruments, which are the instruments of crime, to be very timid, and it shows very little progress on the issue of development.

A couple of reforms were belatedly enacted timid intervention on pensions and a further increase in labor market flexibility. But nothing was done to deregulate product markets or to give proper incentives to restructuring, while privatization came to a halt.

Yet these countries have so far played a rather unimaginative and timid role in international forums such as the G 20 or the World Trade Organization. When they have asserted themselves, it has been largely in pursuit of narrow national interests.

A second answer that politicians have short time horizons, owing to electoral cycles may contain a kernel of truth, but it is inadequate, because the adverse consequences of timid action often become apparent well before they are up for re election.

Disgruntlement over the increasingly authoritarian governance may be common among business circles, elements of the neutered political opposition, liberal intellectuals, and even part of the bureaucracy. But these forces are too timid and fragmented, with no drive for political action.

Two years ago my Government inherited a situation of economic stagnation, recession, sterile political antagonism, violence, growing poverty and weak and unreliable public institutions that led to timid social policies that were a long way from addressing the Millennium Development Goals.

On the few occasions that such resistance was seemingly overcome, the outcome was gradual and timid change. Consequently, many emerging market economies lost confidence in the pooled insurance that the global system supposedly put at their disposal, especially at times of great need.

The government thus used anti establishment feeling to revitalize its own rule. Given the fact that the last president, Muhammad Khatami, was a supporter of the reform movement albeit a timid one who ultimately accomplished nothing only underlines how thoroughly the rulers turned around the political situation.

Why have these policies not worked thus far in bringing down unemployment, even though the growth recovery is well under way? The progressive economist says that stimulus worked, staving off a much deeper recession if not worse but that the measures were too timid to generate a robust recovery.

The financial industry complains that efforts to force greater equity funding would curtail lending, but this is just nonsense in a general equilibrium setting. Nevertheless, governments have been very timid in advancing on this front, with the new Basel III rules taking only a baby step toward real change.

On July 24, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin initiated the first act by fiercely attacking, without evidence, the timid owner of the giant coal and steel company Mechel for price gouging and tax evasion. In three days, Mechel s shares lost half their value, triggering the Russian stock market s decline.

An expansion of trade, with estimated benefits exceeding 100 trillion annually toward the end of the century, would do thousands of times more good than timid feel good policies that result from fear mongering. But that requires abandoning an anti growth mentality and using our enormous potential to create a brighter future.

And what next for the ECB, which has just nudged up interest rates by 0.25 , after 30 months on hold. Experts can disagree about whether the move was premature, but no one agrees with the many political leaders who have argued that the tiny hike will derail the timid resumption of economic growth.

The response to legal abuses has often been timid or declaratory, carried out by individual countries or communities like the European Union in response to specific violations. For example, the United States recently banned 18 Russian officials, most of whom were allegedly linked to Magnitsky s death, from traveling to the US and froze all assets that they hold there.

He argued that a timid BOJ should learn from its more aggressive counterparts, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. Just as the Fed and the ECB have apparently saved the day through their unconventional and aggressive quantitative easing (QE), goes the argument, Abe believes it is now time for the BOJ to do the same.

The most surprising and controversial thing about last December s rate hike by the European Central Bank was that, after two and a half years of keeping interest rates at exceptionally low levels, the bank ventured an increase of only 25 basis points with no promise of more to come. Political pressure on Europe s central bank may be the reason for that timid move.

So we will remain in a state of under employment equilibrium until policy in the UK and the eurozone is changed (and assuming that policy in the US does not become worse). In the face of clamor from the right to cut even more savagely, statesmen who are too timid to increase public spending would be wise to ignore their advice.

Unfortunately, many of the solutions on offer are either too timid or demand too much of a global leadership that is in short supply. The conundrum of global reform is that the proposals that go far enough, such as establishing a global financial regulator, are wildly unrealistic, while those that are realistic, such as reform of the IMF, fall far short of what is needed.

Reform of Germany s generous social system has claimed the front pages for German papers for more than ten years. Some timid measures have been implemented, but the general feeling among Germans is best described by the following answer to a survey conducted two months ago by the newspaper Die Welt 47 of those interviewed plan to cut consumption due to the uncertainty about pensions and health reform.

Indeed, Allah is not timid to present an example that of a mosquito or what is smaller than it. And those who have believed know that it is the truth from their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, What did Allah intend by this as an example? He misleads many thereby and guides many thereby. And He misleads not except the defiantly disobedient,

Indeed, Allah is not timid to present an example that of a mosquito or what is smaller than it. And those who have believed know that it is the truth from their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, What did Allah intend by this as an example? He misleads many thereby and guides many thereby. And He misleads not except the defiantly disobedient,

China patiently bore this pattern of intermittent brinkmanship and timid reform, largely owing to its belief that the risks posed by the Kim dynasty could be controlled as long as China did not cut off the regime s lifeline of oil, food, and other necessities. More important, China s leaders believed that by shielding the North from US pressure, it was acting in the interest of its own national security.

While I hoped that they might be proven right, the recent stream of weak economic data, including May s timid net job creation of only 69,000, confirmed my doubts. With this and other elements of a disheartening employment report now suddenly raising widespread worries about the underlying health and durability of America s recovery, it is important to understand the positive factors and why they are not enough as yet.