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].
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.
So powerful that even the most half-hearted of conmen, like John Edwards, can become famous and make a lucrative career out of claiming to be able to talk to the dead.
What's funny, or really tragic, is that we, the consuming public, pay billions of dollars every year for a sort of half-hearted system of inspections, called third party audits, where the Wal-Marts and the Costcos and the McDonald's of the world tell their supply chain that they need to pay for an audit of their businesses.
There were plates of mince pies on the side tables, and a couple of half-hearted sprigs of mistletoe above the doors.
Blockchain and crypto pundits out there contends that the current indecisiveness and half-hearted regulation of most of the national regulatory bodies are just as inhibiting and near-sighted - as is the outright prohibition of innovative solutions.
He has forcefully contrasted the assiduousness with which the case has been pressed against his client to the half-hearted prosecution of Germans accused of worse wartime crimes.
Jeremy Corbyn was late to the fray, took a week's holiday in the middle of the campaign and has never dispelled the impression that he is, at very best, a half-hearted supporter of continued membership of the EU.
Under the new plan, four banks including Bankia, itself the failed product of an earlier half-hearted restructuring of bust regional savings banks, will get cash from two of Europe's bail-out funds.
Yet these are very half-hearted invocations of the larger meanings of the story claimed by Sagan or Swimme, and suggest that this stream of popular science may have run its course.
Analysts say this sort of backdoor funding, along with half-hearted statements of concern from the East African community, is a symptom of a larger dynamic that has enabled the Burundian regime's survival.
