Ejemplos de uso de pusillanimous
1. Yet so pusillanimous are we in championing this past that we have left it up to the Americans to fund the monument to the Magna Carta at Runneymede.
2. In effect, the American public is being told that its soldiers have to fix Afghanistan because the pusillanimous Europeans and invisible Canadians aren‘t up to the job.
3. This recalibration is a welcome shift from Germany, which under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder tended toward almost pusillanimous relations with Russia, to the detriment of other former Soviet states.
4. Bush and Cheney are no doubt sincere in their misplaced concerns, which just happen to reinforce Karl Rove‘s political strategy of running against Congress, the media, pusillanimous foreigners and other reputed national security weaklings.
5. The mess of British foreign policy, with its intemperance on Iraq and its pusillanimous refusal to condemn Israel‘s hideously ill–judged war on Lebanon, draws on the same well of autocracy and insecurity that has blinded this nation to the culture and history and languages of others.