Half measures won't protect the American people from skyrocketing costs and insurance company abuses.
No half measures for this auteur--he's not just going to make an ill-conceived television special.
This is not a time for half measures that simply won't reduce teen smoking.
"This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory, " he said.
But we need to encourage ourselves to go beyond these half measures.
"We are living through a time of global economic challenges that cannot be met by half measures or the isolated efforts of any nation, " Obama said.
In the days to come, the tobacco industry will doubtless raise objection after objection, and will work behind closed doors to persuade Congress to pass half measures that will not reduce teen smoking.
John Ratcliffe of the Countryside Council for Wales - also partners in the squirrel conservation project - said half measures were not possible and it wanted to return more of the area to dunes.
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In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measures keep you half exposed.
Market confidence is once again drying up, just as everyone is about to head off for the beach - and the half-measures agreed at last month's Summit are not even half-implemented.
The second explanation for General Musharraf's half-measures is that he is afraid of the extremist groups.
But those sites are mere half-measures in the effort to snare a dream vacation.
Half-measures will result in a new equilibrium, but one that is still too heavy.
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In reality, these half-measures have all of the vitality of mortuary cosmetics and an equivalent purpose.
Beers are sold in third and half pint measures, as well as full pints.
Bush's visit this week may help the Japanese focus on the fact that they already face a crisis, and that half-measures will not suffice.
So the debate must first pass through half-measures and denial.
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The president said after that meeting that world leaders meeting at the G-20 summit "cannot afford half-measures" as they try to hammer out ways to address the global financial crisis.
U. may be faced with a stark choice: Continue the half-measures that are driving the euro zone ever deeper into recession, or allow the introduction of dual currencies to preserve the euro.
Often over the coming years, the exact opposite of compromise, difference-splitting and cosy half-measures will be needed to deal with a debt crisis big enough to make even the drama of the past week look like a frivolous sideshow.
Mr Chidambaram has proved it can, despite political compromises that have led to some half-baked measures.
But legacy debit cards are institutionalized vehicles of identity and they promote half-way measures.
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Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the North Sea herring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.
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