| If it's true, it's about as galactically craven and poll driven a rowback as I've ever heard. |
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| The first two are so terrified of their circulation numbers that they'll do any chaotic, craven thing to boost them. |
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| Sure, they can whine about negative depictions, but much of that is caused by their own lack of character and craven pandering. |
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| He is also hoping to wrangle Trade Promotion Authority back out of Congress in exchange for his craven cave-in to special interests. |
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| He would not need to be so craven if he looked at in-depth polls showing that the public is not nearly as punitive as commonly perceived. |
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| If on the other hand this is merely the latest instance of a network's craven cave-in, what else is new? |
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| In my books there are healthy, happy people, and craven, covetous, miserable people. |
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| Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly. |
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| I see a balance between a very few sensible people and a crowd of craven cretins. |
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| The injunction to turn the other cheek is often quoted, out of context, to justify craven submission. |
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| And who should know better than he that it is craven to belittle a man's service because it didn't extend over some arbitrary stretch of time? |
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| If you want it reduced to a bunch of craven lickspittles, then you seem to be following the correct procedure. |
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| But it wasn't that the nation saw that politicians were all a bunch of craven opportunists. |
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| Far from being the craven cowards they have often been depicted as, they are capable, at times, of driving lions from their kill. |
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| Ignoring the situation or simply hoping that it will disappear of its own accord is craven, misguided and, most importantly, dangerous. |
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| But, when officers confronted Parker, he proved to be a craven coward who literally pulsed with guilt. |
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| Regrettably, though, there seem to be at least a few examples of the cheapest, most craven opportunism. |
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| For decades, its craven instinct for appeasement and its insane preoccupation with ecumenism has undermined the Church it is charged to defend. |
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| There is no reason for this other than craven cowardice in the face of power. |
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| You could not be blamed for the craven cowardliness of your opponent, could you? |
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| Harr was craven, had always been, and the little courage he'd summoned up to come out here and try to take her down was deserting him fast. |
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| A man of honor, a man of undeniable courage has been depicted as a craven coward by these memos. |
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| And when the parties collude in such a craven course, it becomes conspiracy as well. |
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| At best, this can be called a craven circumvention of an unpleasant situation. |
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| It would be better to say that the Boy Scouts prevailed with a good constitutional argument, supported by weak evidence, craven apprehensions and unthinking hostility. |
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| Will he take us deeper into the lives of some craven misfits? |
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| Please check your facts before you accuse us of being craven. |
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| It basically makes him look like a weak, indecisive, craven leader. |
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| But is it a craven love of hierarchy, or a polite but bloody-minded nosiness? |
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| They slice and dice it to a fare-thee-well, and serve craven political crudités. |
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| At other times, a Democratic bout of self-satisfaction has merely made the party or the particular officeholder look craven. |
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| Yet Brussels' irresolute and craven policy of accommodation has achieved nothing. |
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| The documentary went to air but with craven caveats and post-screening rebuttals by critics. |
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| Most recently, she acted in a craven manner with regard to our peaceful satellite launch, only to drive the Six-Party Talks to an end after all. |
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| Beijing's craven appeasement of the imperialist drive against North Korea is particularly dangerous to China's own defense. |
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| Cameron’s folly was not so much his craven capitulation to the fools in his party, but his sheer ignorance of the persistence and the causes of social division in his own country. |
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| It might be helpful, now, if a few of these craven Republicans had the stones to say it. |
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| Film stars and politicians are still bussed in to sell their products, in the most craven way possible. |
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| And the President took Pelosi's way, not the highway of craven calculation. |
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| Six miles from craven Cottage, where Fulham play their home games, is the stadium where this soccer revolution began 10 years ago. |
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| And the not-so-good people are conniving, craven and corruptible. |
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| Would not her refusal to do so be craven flight from the new reality which faces her, a kind of desertion or slackerdom? |
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| Beijing's craven appeasement of imperialism not only imperils North Korea but dangerously undermines the defense of China itself-the main target of the imperialists' drive for capitalist counterrevolution. |
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| Only the most craven would suggest otherwise. |
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| He admitted to himself that he'd been at once stiff-necked and craven. |
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| Maybe he could no longer bear the craven truth about himself. |
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| He straightway broke into bitter lamentations, such as I had never heard from him before, for he had always asserted that such wailing was for craven and lowhearted men. |
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