But as in other debates pitting right against left, liberal advocates like Mr. Goddard and Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, seem on the defensive in the film, forced to pursue half-measures like changing gun-show rules while bending over backward to acknowledge their opponents' reasonableness.
But if you pursue half-baked ideas, VCs won't fund our companies.
Only in the early 1920s, after consulting a psychiatrist, did he realize newspaper illustration — a career he was pursuing half-heartedly to support himself — was his true calling.
In contrast, the decision-making process in Vietnam can seem painfully slow but also more equitable.China enforced a one-child policy harshly; Vietnam had a two-child policy, pursued half-heartedly.
But as both the Vietnam quagmire and the first Gulf war suggest, they are much more nervous about backing a government perceived to be pursuing half-hearted aims.The current combat has limited aims.
The "case of the ripped shirts" made headlines last autumn when the airline's human resources chief, Xavier Broseta, was pursued half-naked by staff after a work council meeting about job cuts.
(Maybe he thinks this would keep more people from pursuing half-baked ideas).
The statement, the fullest official response so far to Mr. Nemtsov's killing, said the police were pursuing half a dozen leads in the case, the highest-profile assassination in Russia during the tenure of Mr. Putin.
Through a series of vignettes, Kelman's first novel paints a disturbing portrait of men of a certain age and a certain wealth who voraciously pursue girls half their age.
14 Consistent with previous studies, providers did not pursue over half of their questions.
Likewise, the incestuous and murderous subplot, that sees Aue pursued across half of Europe and half the 900 pages by two police officers, is overwrought and far-fetched.
