Biologist Francisco de Assis Neo, quoted by the French news agency AFP, said that at this time of year "the birds make their nests and become more timid and, therefore, more difficult to find".

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The immediate spending cuts were more timid, and mostly foisted on the regions.

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In this game, a timid Luigi travels through more mansions and captures more ghosts using his upgraded Poltergust 5000.

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Happily, after a much improved and determined performance, Paul Collingwood's erratic team are guaranteed a place in the next round and how much better they played - and how much more focused they looked - than the timid, constrained group of players which was humiliated by the Netherlands.

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In reality it was relatively timid, and was never going to have more than a marginal effect on traffic growth.

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He took timid steps to turn over more land to private farming, and gave more leeway to some small businesses, such as private taxi drivers.

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The 10-year-old has a wingspan of more than 6ft (1.82m) and his keepers said he was fairly timid.

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The 10-year-old has a wingspan of more than 6ft (1.82m), and his keepers said he is fairly timid.

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Blair and Brown, characterised as reluctant Europeans too timid to make the case, may be more effective champions of Europe than they know.

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So when it came time to write, the authors faced a dilemma: Should they release a traditional fitness book and receive industry nods, or create a resource with sass that could make serious waves but risk alienating more timid readers?

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