Mr. Forman also opposed Dr. King's march from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights as insufficiently aggressive.

Mr. Bloomberg has traveled upstate and testified on the city's behalf, but many education advocates have criticized his efforts as insufficiently aggressive.

Alekperov, they say, is insufficiently aggressive in carrying it out; he doesn't have the go-for-broke instinct of Khodorkovsky.

Dukakis found his voice in the last three weeks of the campaign, but he never recovered the New Democrat image that the negative ads and his insufficiently aggressive debate performances had destroyed.

Ms. Gillespie has been harshly criticized by supporters of the initiative as being overly sympathetic to the insurance industry and insufficiently aggressive in enforcing the new law.

The council's final report on the first tour criticized the Guggenheim staff for "insufficiently aggressive" publicity efforts.

Justice Department officials said they regarded Mr. Bogden as competent but insufficiently aggressive, although they acknowledge that his removal was a tough call.

"Ideally, they could have gotten this program started a year ago," said Brian Johnson, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein, who expected Ford's revamping plan to be "insufficiently aggressive."

But some of her fellow members regard her as insufficiently aggressive when it comes to criticizing the Bush administration.

Mr. Spitzer has also implied that other regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, have been insufficiently aggressive in addressing conflicts of interest across the financial industry.