Therefore, if the opportunities were placed near at hand to the Hong-Kong shipper, he would be an unenterprising person indeed were he not to avail himself of the opportunity.
But the French Marshal cleverly withdrew his corps, leaving only enough men to impose on that unenterprising leader.
Jena was won by a rapid concentration of troops, and the prompt seizure of a commanding position almost under the eyes of an unenterprising enemy.
Mina was not speedily to be beaten, nor was the British general the slow unenterprising leader that the Emperor took him to be.
My servants told him my cause of woe, and he said, "Why have you, like an unenterprising man, allowed your spirits to sink?
England has become unenterprising and sluggish because England has been so prosperous and comfortable.
The prosperity of all Kent is crippled by a "combine" of two ill-managed and unenterprising railway companies, with no funds for new developments, grinding out an uncertain dividend by clipping expenditure.
They were even of a character nearly the reverse; they were formerly like the old Epicureans, rather anunenterprising race.
Far too big an undertaking, you see, for these penniless, unenterprising Mexicans.
Have they ever appeared otherwise than as the most self-centred and unenterprisingpeople in the world, displaying the least possible aptitude for the career of arms?
Though so long acquainted with the compass, the Chinese have always been as unenterprising in sailoring as in everything else, and seldom lose sight of the land, if they can help it.
