-The decision to deny guns to airline pilots, whom we already trust with our lives when we board a plane, is proof positive that too many government pooh-bahs are pusillanimous nannycrats.
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This arrangement was described by " The Times " as " . . . obviously dictated by a somewhat pusillanimous calculation that it was better to avoid a struggle with the Parnellite party ."
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He was bitterly critical of what he called the " highly inappropriate and pusillanimous policy " of Western countries in declining to pursue suspected war criminals, singling out France and the United Kingdom as particular culprits.
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Ever since the immoralists of New Hampshire introduced a state lottery in 1964, followed quickly by New York in 1966, pusillanimous politicians have been ripping off their constituents with this " painless taxation ."
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Bildt tried unsuccessfully to make Sweden's hesitance to join the European Union's single-currency program a linchpin of his contention that Sweden has " Europe's most pusillanimous government ."
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The court's pusillanimous center caved in to the far right while ensuring that a silver-spoon Cambridge " liberal " like Steve Breyer will still get invited to the right cocktail parties on the Vineyard this summer.
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Murray was described by Lord Macaulay as " the falsest, the most fickle, the most pusillanimous of mankind ", regarding Murray's indecisive position surrounding the succession of William of Orange and the deposition of King James ."
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During Rama's period of rule, an intemperate washerman, while berating his wayward wife, declared that he was " no pusillanimous Rama who would take his wife back after she had lived in the house of another man ".
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Menendez also criticized Balza for not owning up to his role in the Dirty war and for portraying Argentine officers in his book " Malvinas : Gesta e Incompetencia " ( Editorial Atl�ntida, 2003 ) as " idiots or pusillanimous ."
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"The Enahoro affair " became an issue of human rights versus the government's pusillanimous wish not to offend Nigeria, and put the Tory prime minister, Harold Macmillan, and his home secretary, Henry Brooke, in a difficult position.
