Examples of half-hearted

• There are no things, only words, motifs, tropes, and half-hearted aspirations after something that never even existed.

• Or was he ambivalent, half-hearted and unduly cautious?

• Yet, even in this context, universities have only made half-hearted attempts to engage with the philosophical, conceptual, pedagogical and organizational basis of immersion teacher education.

• Although these renewed efforts at control were no more effective than the half-hearted ones that preceded them, their impact on individual lives was often disastrous.

• The problems to be overcome are shown to remain the same: ephemeral urban policy, half-hearted political will and polarized party politics.

• Policies towards private indigenous businessmen have been half-hearted because the ruling group has often seen them as potential rivals for power.

• The conclusion is that, at worst, the minimum wage is a mistake and, at best, something to be half-hearted about.

• But at the outset his deeds are only the wishes and fears of the average undistinguished man translated into half-hearted action.