Sentence examples for half hearted and from inspiring English sources

While some measures have been put in place to curb youth smoking (e.g., setting the official smoking age to 18 years, requiring a bank card to buy cigarettes from vending machines), overall efforts still appear half hearted and of limited success [ 17].

Half-hearted and surly (LeBron James excepted).

Their campaigns were half-hearted and amateurish, he says.

But Western critics claimed they were half-hearted and always ended in peace deals with militants.

But the effort is half-hearted and he soon peels away.

She finds his responses half-hearted and he replies that he's just very tired.

And many Buddhists feel that the Government's Lumbini efforts have been half-hearted -- and sometimes corrupt.

Pat McFadden, the shadow Europe minister, dismissed Livingstone's apology as "half-hearted and dismissive".

The shutdowns of the nineteen-nineties seem half-hearted and tentative compared to this one.

I think the effort was rather half-hearted and had a result that they probably did not expect.

The situation has been made worse by the Pakistani government's half-hearted and hapless efforts to tackle sectarian militancy.