| It was the precursor to the Seventies with their hopeless mismanagement of government and spinelessness towards terrorism. |
| Collective security remains a distant aspiration, collective spinelessness a daily reality. |
| Fischer's obsequiousness is not simply, or even primarily, a reflection of his subjective cowardice and political spinelessness. |
| For cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating. |
| The supposed spinelessness and ineptitude of politicians is often one of the few things about which military officers can agree. |
| It went to the bunker, ranting about a conspiracy by animal rights fanatics and admonishing the biologists for spinelessness. |
