The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad, And knelt reluctantly, half-prejudiced.
Burns, noting their desperation to sell, offers them $50 million for the plant, and they reluctantly accept half of what they paid him.
only signed reluctantly because half of the $30 billion unemployment extension is paid for by extracting $15 billion from the federal pension system.
For a variety of reasons, in which history, geography, culture and language are intertwined, and which include remnants of a postcolonial self-delusion about British superiority and continental inferiority, many British people are reluctantly and half-heartedly engaged with Europe.
The final blow for White was the must-have inclusion of the vastly experienced Matt Giteau (95 caps) who can, albeit reluctantly, play half-back should the need to arise.
Trump let it be known that this was at the top of his priorities list, and Congress reluctantly spent another half-year wasting everyone's time proving that they couldn't agree among themselves at all.
Faced with a yawning shortfall, despite an 8percentt increase in ridership last year, the system reluctantly decided to cut nearly half of its bus service; lay off nearly 600 of its workers, or a quarter of its work force, and reduce service on its red, white and blue MetroLink light-rail cars — the modern successors of the clanging trolleys that Judy Garland sang about in "Meet Me in St . Louis.
Half awake, you reluctantly pick up a pair of light weights and start lifting them according to a Men's Health magazine you bought from the WHSmith next door.
And then, of course, he used the power rather half-heartedly and reluctantly, seemingly going out of his way to take it easy on the banks he might have been bending to his will.
This week, the quaintly named "Rector's Breakfast" has kicked off the college's summer shows, at which the graduating students from the college's various departments show off their work.But this is no ordinary graduation show, with a sprinkling of parents and half-hearted friends reluctantly doing their duty.
Ms. Viljoen organized the cleanup effort half a year later, and only reluctantly, she said, after failing to get the Parks Department to clean things up itself.
