Sentence examples for tepid efforts from inspiring English sources

Unlike the feds' tepid efforts, this will be a serious investigation, led by a handful of assistant attorneys general who've worked together for years, and who see this as their chance to finally do something for beleaguered homeowners.

("Promposal," "Are You the One?," and "SafeWord" are some tepid efforts. In an interview with the Times, MTV's president, Chris McCarthy, announced the network's plan to replicate old reality-show success: a reboot of "Total Request Live").

These join other startups such as Box.net and Xdrive that have been around for a while, plus the tepid efforts of Microsoft from last Fall.

Instead of reining in Wall Street greed, the GOP is demanding a reversal of even the tepid efforts of the Obama administration to hold the financial industry accountable to honest business practices.

As the top diplomat at Treasury under President Barack Obama, Brainard advocated for disappointing trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, and laid the groundwork for much of what eventually became the TPP, while overseeing tepid efforts to thwart currency manipulation in China.

When Pettitte came home to Houston after the Yankees' tepid effort to re-sign him, everything changed.

Mr. Radek's public integrity unit in the Justice Department has managed the investigation, which Congressional Republicans have long criticized as a tepid effort.

But in the dominant Afghan ethnic group, the Pashtun, there has been increasing frustration at what they see as a tepid effort by Washington to push the process along.

MINNEAPOLIS — On Saturday, a night after a tepid defensive effort and missed free throws down the stretch handed him his 703rd career loss instead of his 1,000 career win, Minnesota Timberwolves Coach Rick Adelman stood beside his wife, Mary Kay, on the floor of the Target Center.

While a racist in their midst deservedly gets the boot, the NBA and its players paid no attention when one of its owners gave half a million dollars to an anti-gay group, defended it and, despite a tepid boycott effort, went along his merry way without any consequence.

State Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, said business opposition — in contrast to what she called the tepid and delayed efforts of its leaders last year — gave Republicans the political protection they needed to vote no.