Sentence examples for half-hearted measures from inspiring English sources

"No half-hearted measures could have delivered".

The 36 UN African states demanded appropriate action - no half-hearted measures the United Kingdom govt. might take.

As reservoirs dried up Geraldo Alckmin, who was running for re-election as São Paulo's governor (and won in October), took half-hearted measures to promote conservation.

With unemployment, intolerable housing, and discriminatory education scourge in Negro ghettoes, Congress and the Administration still tinker with trivial, half-hearted measures.

The fund has also criticised what it sees as only half-hearted measures to reform the Greek economy by tearing down hundreds of regulatory barriers.

Stock markets in London, New York, and Shanghai dived following criticism that much delayed and half-hearted measures to rescue Greece were undermining confidence in wider efforts to kick start the world economy.

This is no half-hearted measure.

But even this is a half-hearted measure.

Taking the armband off Thomas Hitzlsperger and cancelling Lehmann's privileges last week were half-hearted, ill-advised measures that didn't address the real problems.

That is why a clear statutory provision needs to be made, not the half-baked, half-hearted approach that the draft measure currently contains.

One can understand someone like Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld defending a policy of playing solo in Iraq, but what you are suggesting is a half-hearted, or rather face-saving, measure.