| It was the precursor to the Seventies with their hopeless mismanagement of government and spinelessness towards terrorism. |
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| It went to the bunker, ranting about a conspiracy by animal rights fanatics and admonishing the biologists for spinelessness. |
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| The supposed spinelessness and ineptitude of politicians is often one of the few things about which military officers can agree. |
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| Fischer's obsequiousness is not simply, or even primarily, a reflection of his subjective cowardice and political spinelessness. |
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| It's a relief to see him grow because his spinelessness was irritating and becoming tedious. |
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| The governments which, through spinelessness or ideology, support you are also responsible. |
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| The spinelessness of some Western countries and big international institutions is damaging freedom of expression. |
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| For cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating. |
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| Collective security remains a distant aspiration, collective spinelessness a daily reality. |
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| It is the weak nerve center of a flabby semistate, with almost defenseless frontiers, where humanitarian rhetoric masks spinelessness. |
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| Some attribute this silence to spinelessness, others to tactical guile. |
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| And they have left a space that insurgent parties and anti-sleaze independents are moving into. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that too many politicians are immobilised by a mix of inertia and spinelessness. |
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| On the other hand as far as the Gospel is concerned, lack of daring, cowardliness, spinelessness, turning in on oneself, entrenching oneself in old habits and personal security are faults of quite a different seriousness. |
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| When it came to the crunch, he bottled out, and has remained a coward ever after, albeit one with a buried grudge against Lermon for placing his spinelessness in such sharp focus. |
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| Whatever Kerry lacks in clumsiness, he makes up for in spinelessness. |
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| What does surprise, however, is the spinelessness of the UPA II ministers who tamely allowed their bureaucrats to manipulate them into a paralysis. |
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| He seems to commit his appalling crimes out of sheer spinelessness as much as greed, resorting quickly to drugging cups of tea as soon as his partner so much as questions him. |
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