Some would argue that free societies are too soft to fight brutal wars too long.
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Those who had always thought that Mr Haas is too soft will no doubt jeer.
His shot came out too soft and rolled back off the green, leading to bogey.
For him, Netanyahu, who became Prime Minister in 1996, was too soft, too given to territorial compromise.
There were already fears that Mr Strauss-Kahn's presidential ambitions led the fund to be too soft on Europe.
Most of the gold being traded around that region is of the 24-carat variety, too soft for daily wearing.
Oddly, I found the sound via headphones to be too soft in some cases, though voice calls were clear.
Interior Minister Sarkozy blamed French judges for the rise in crime figures, saying they were too soft on juvenile offenders.
It's too easy, it's too soft, it's not bland, but it's definitely a lot more refined than anything they ever did.
Madlener explains that, depending on where you're sitting in relation to the sound source, it's either too loud or too soft.
It was a point of contention during his confirmation hearing, with some Republicans accusing him of being too soft on Iran.
The big problem is that we've been far too soft on repeat crime in this country for far, far too long.
Adm Mullen has been criticised by Congressmen, the CIA and even his military colleagues for being too soft on the Pakistan army.
Although it seemed to have been completed last week, it has now fallen apart: the government apparently thought Gazprom's terms too soft.
This has led many Tories to conclude that, for all their anti-scrounger rhetoric, they had actually been too soft on welfare recipients.
Ms. Rice's comments also come after Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, has criticized President Barack Obama as being too soft on Syria.
Republicans have accused him of being too cool to Israel, the leading U.S. ally in the Middle East, and too soft on Iran.
The Afghan Attorney General's office said last week that it would appeal the sentences as being too soft given the scale of the fraud.
Regulations that set up a trading plan for pollutants, first issued under the George W. Bush Administration, were challenged in court as too soft.
He also thought the Carter Administration was being too soft on the Soviets, although he did not say as much to his American hosts.
Washington said afterward that the home plate area was too soft.
Mr de Souza argues that, by diverting money from public health, corruption is as bad as murder, and that the government has been too soft.
Perhaps feeling guilty about neglect of their families, perhaps remembering their own indulged childhoods, today's parents are too soft on their children, say some social critics.
His broad conclusion (and the posthumously delivered verdict of Nixon) is that American policy towards post-Soviet Russia has at once been too soft and too tough.
Mr Giuliani's hawkishness could be a vital factor in his struggle to win over Republicans who think him too soft on social issues such as abortion.
But Mexican economists complain that the conditions for their loan were far stricter than Europe's and it leaves them wondering: Is the IMF too soft on the eurozone?
In a speech on October 25th at The Economist's Buttonwood Gathering in New York, Mervyn King savaged big banks and criticised the new Basel 3 rules as too soft.
Some on the right think Obama is too soft.
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On the other side of the debate, however, some ardently secular-minded writers have accused General Hilmi Ozkok, the unusually mild-mannered chief of the general staff, of being too soft on the government.
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