Sentence examples for half-hearted tackling from inspiring English sources

The Dragons' resistance wilted with Strauss rounding off a sweeping move for a sixth try, with Wight converting, then Swinson brushed aside more half-hearted tackling to score his second.

It was Carrick who gifted him the opportunity, engaging in the kind of half-hearted tackle which has not  belonged in United teams and allowing Campbell to nutmeg him and curl a fine  left footed shot from 25 yards, beyond the desperate dive of De Gea.

Hanrahan evaded a series of half-hearted tackles and darted in at the post for the first and only try of the game.

Across the Pacific, many have blamed Japan's central bankers for being too half-hearted about tackling deflation.

The former Worcester man was mobbed by his team-mates after weaved through some half-hearted Montpellier tackling for his first and his second arrived straight from the restart as Graham Kitchener gathered and Scott Hamilton and Goneva released him into the corner.

Since then, it has embarked on an ill-advised and half-hearted campaign to tackle the outfit.

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

This time the last tackle was half-hearted and the Cardiff player was able to take his Welsh try tally into double figures.

But his efforts to tackle corruption have been half-hearted at best and, because he has fostered more state control and little respect for the rule of law, he has created precisely the conditions in which corruption thrives best.

His tackle was the half-hearted action of a beaten man and, all around him, Estonian chins were on the floor.

"Police investigations have been characterised by half-hearted, inconsistent and inefficient police work, and an unwillingness to tackle questions of collusion between political influences and interests and these killings of activists," he said.