Enforcement has been halfhearted.
The reforms adopted by Gomułka were halfhearted.
According to Marsalis, previous fusions of jazz and classical styles, which included works by Duke Ellington and George Gershwin, were "halfhearted".
There is no good reason to doubt this, though it has been argued that there were special reasons why Sparta's leadership was halfhearted in the 490s and that it should be related to the scattered evidence for helot trouble at precisely this time.
Faced with growing internal dissent, Thanom made halfhearted attempts to introduce minor democratic reforms before reimposing direct military rule in 1971.
After his consulship, he waited in Rome while rival nobles undermined the position of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, who was campaigning against Mithradates in Anatolia, and made halfhearted attempts to deal with the pirates.
In many cases, those governments conduct halfhearted investigations and fail to convict offenders.
Hawke's intellectually self-assured version of Shepard's study of sibling rivalry, brutalized women, and errant masculinity — one character can't remember whether he killed his wife or not — sped up the slack moments and didn't play into Shepard's often halfhearted attempts to give his characters naturalistic narrative ends.
Over the years, the district attorney's efforts to bring Polanski back to the United States seem to have been halfhearted.
April kept saying, 'Your job is to get people here.' I'm texting all my friends, I'm talking to the blogs — nothing's working.' April said, 'Well, how do we do it?' and I said, 'I don't know how to do it,' and she said, 'Well, figure it out.' " Once Friedman conceded the bar scene, the restaurant seemed halfhearted.
This was Cincinnati — the capital of pork, the first truly American city — sprawled before the eyes of two little boys under the momentary aegis of one Mike Shaughnessy, truck driver, halfhearted Lothario, collector of children, poor Irish agnate, known in high school as that fucking Irish fuck.
