| It is the weak nerve center of a flabby semistate, with almost defenseless frontiers, where humanitarian rhetoric masks spinelessness. |
| The supposed spinelessness and ineptitude of politicians is often one of the few things about which military officers can agree. |
| The governments which, through spinelessness or ideology, support you are also responsible. |
| For cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating. |
| 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. |
| Some attribute this silence to spinelessness, others to tactical guile. |
