spinelessness

But his spinelessness may make him the biggest culprit of all.

Ever since, his words have stood as a synonym for spinelessness.

The governments which, through spinelessness or ideology, support you are also responsible.

Let the Guardian cover itself with the cloth of spinelessness.

The spinelessness displayed thus far by the Congressional leadership has been bad enough.

The talking heads reckon this shows spinelessness on his part.

He's a dangerous character, not for what he does, but because of his stupidity and spinelessness.

"And now you're going to answer for your spinelessness."

The doers, for their part, suspect the slow people of spinelessness.

It was not just spinelessness on her part.

He pretended a look of stern authority, as if forgetting that I had seen him exposed in his spinelessness.

A third reason is the spinelessness of the Federal Election Commission, the government's main enforcement agency.

When he looks around, he does not see unnecessary suffering but rather confusion and spinelessness - things a military officer cannot tolerate.

"Better a little fire than spinelessness."

Creeping spinelessness in the executive branch also means that political direction cannot be decided by voters in Presidential elections.

This is of the culture of erudition and beauty you've helped to suffocate with your spinelessness.

When do a leader's egalitarian impulses devolve into spinelessness and a need to pander to the herd?

Guns have become a fabulously effective method to combat lingering spinelessness and a pathetic lack of conscience.

Congress is offering this wink and a nod on earmarks only to cover its spinelessness on larger ethical issues.

Thomas Foley and the rest of the House Democratic leadership, often chided in this space for spinelessness, whipped their people into line.

It is not the spinelessness of some board members, the naked political manipulation by their mentors or even the Mayor's insistence on controlling the next chancellor.

Britain's reliability has been compromised by a studied spinelessness intended to curry favor with Europhiles.

Western spinelessness is about to let hundreds of thousands of Bosnians die from hunger, cold and military bombardment in the cruel winter months ahead.

I loathe such spinelessness."