Perhaps the more so, the more idealistic we are - as idealists don't do anything half-heartedly.
She has been cleared, albeit half-heartedly, of having played an inappropriate part in the Travelgate affair.
The venture capital industry has grown risk averse, and angels are only half-heartedly stepping into the breach.
As Siemens half-heartedly clamped down on corruption, managers took ever more eccentric steps to avoid getting caught.
Merkel at least half-heartedly ran as a reformer, even nominating a flat-tax proponent as her shadow finance minister.
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But the Irish media, cowed by the country's ferocious libel laws, investigated half-heartedly.
When the case of a missing American was half-heartedly raised by a subordinate, he promptly apologised to the Russians.
The Indian government said (rather half-heartedly) that it would appeal against this ruling.
They also wanted Iceland to talk to the IMF, which the authorities appear to have done only half-heartedly at first.
But his longer-term strategy is to ensure that a future Palestinian state, which Mr Netanyahu half-heartedly says he would tolerate, is tightly circumscribed.
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It half-heartedly pressed Riyadh for copies of the textbooks actually used at the Academy, then withheld from the USCIRF the books it did receive.
The Federal Reserve is trying new ways of support, somewhat half-heartedly.
The French army, which had half-heartedly vaccinated some of its troops, fared better than the population, but still saw over 23, 000 troops fall victim to this terrible scourge.
And the high price of that one, half-heartedly tossed out near the end of a long keynote on May 15, drew audible sighs of disappointment from the nearly 6, 000 attendees.
Indeed, by encouraging budget airlines to dominate these airports, and only half-heartedly promoting improvements to rail links and runway capacity, it made it difficult for a new hub to emerge.
Young boys and older men with greying beards half-heartedly mixed cement and worked iron rods as we walked through the site and were shown the skeleton of a 16 classroom building.
At the same time, the mayor has often infuriated the Republican Party, which fumed as he pilloried George Pataki, a Republican, when he stood against Mr Cuomo (after Mr Pataki won, Mr Giuliani had a hard time repairing the relationship), and breathed a sigh of relief when the mayor finally (if half-heartedly) endorsed Mr Dole's candidacy.
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