Meanings of political cowardice in English

Official defensiveness and political cowardice, along with deep-seated inertia, have obstructed innovation.

No one has accused the right honourable gentleman of political cowardice.

But this new cloudy political cowardice has rendered useless the old English compromise.

British housing policy is a mess, the result of 20 years of political cowardice.

In the narrow sense, its closure was due to commercial opportunism and political cowardice.

Some of these wasteful decisions look like sheer political cowardice.

Key decisions delayed, avoided or opposed due to political cowardice and an absence of vision.

On the contrary, for Mr Reynolds to have done otherwise would have been political cowardice.

Its political cowardice is astounding -and pointless.

Yet many critics both within and without the administration have attacked the Administration's positions as political cowardice.

Langella's More is the sort of figure that feels in short supply in this age of political cowardice.

It might be called political cowardice.

The Government decision to abolish water charges was the most abject example of political cowardice for a long time.

It is a classic act of political cowardice -the kind that often leads to victory at the polls.

Sheer political cowardice has prevented either revaluation or the introduction of higher bands (other than in gutsy Wales).

But political cowardice, a reluctance to provide financial compensation and intense lobbying by drift-net fishermen caused the necessary action to be delayed.