If Brussels and Washington stop at half-hearted protests against what PiS is doing, Kaczyński and his party will simply shrug them off and continue to dismantle liberal democracy in Poland one parliamentary bill at a time.
China's major trading partners, particularly the United States, persistently criticize China for delivering, at best, half-hearted enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) norms.
First to crack was Coastal Path, his stamina proving porous in a far tougher examination than he had ever endured in France, where he had only run over two miles in small fields at a half-hearted gallop.
Mr. Anderson, all scruffy puppy dog, and Ms. Arrington, who captures her character's bruised innocence nicely, are equally fine as the sweet-natured slackers whose attempts to move onto the upward track are at best half-hearted.
There's a photo of her on the school's Web site: she has short brown hair, is stylishly dressed, and sports a smile that is at best half-hearted.
The centre has long suspected these PNV governments, and their regional police, of being (at best) half-hearted in pursuing ETA; and the more so when, in 1998-99, during a 14-month ETA ceasefire, the PNV took the gunmen's political arm as its coalition partner.
He raged in frustration at a half-hearted second-half challenge from Cavani and was equally angered when Neymar made no attempt to regain possession after losing the ball as Liverpool chased the winner in the closing moments.
Although the courts have sought to give effect to the congressional authorization embodied in these statutes, they have faced the resistance at times half-hearted of the executive branch, which regards such legislative and judicial involvement as an intrusion on its foreign policy prerogatives.
Her attempts to assuage voter anger the key to winning this election have been at best half-hearted.
Some thought he was annoyed at the half-hearted crowd ("Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?" White reportedly asked at one point during the show).
President Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) Why? Musharraf's crackdown on Al Qaeda in Pakistan, though half-hearted at times, enrages jihadists.
