Ultimately, even Donald Trump half-heartedly came out against the move.
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"It's a play that's not worth doing half-heartedly," said another source.
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The Obama administration also sought — if not half-heartedly — a new authorization.
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"The average person half-heartedly wants a lot of things," Siebold writes.
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"I commend Tufts University emphatically, and I commend the Smithsonian half-heartedly."
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Sure. Half-heartedly watching composers on video at home while browsing dank memes?
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Ivanka is attempting to separate herself from potential conflicts, but only half-heartedly.
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"We choose democracy!" we half-heartedly chanted, as we acted out his murder.
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"Imagine no… possessions..." he sings extremely half-heartedly from his Malibu beach house.
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Movie Mia, in contrast, half-heartedly hides her sleek new 'do with a Kangol hat.
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The communists and the government are talking peace but still fighting, if only half-heartedly.
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To woo investors, the government has eased limits on foreign ownership, but only half-heartedly.
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And it's an argument that TV networks and content providers are only half-heartedly addressing.
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Half-heartedly, some pundits on Fox tried to defend the president but they looked exhausted.
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Mondragon may have been half-heartedly protesting, but it was the right call from the referee.
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But in its 27th season, The Simpsons is doing something about this problem — albeit half-heartedly.
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Jamie is clearly interested in Callie, and Callie is half-heartedly interested in him as well.
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It even inspired me, a committed sloth, to half-heartedly consider joining a gym for weeks after.
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A customer half-heartedly chanted, to no one, "Healthcare for the homeless in Baltimore" as he left.
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Newton apparently pursuing his fumble half-heartedly — with everything on the line — is the game's defining moment.
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Only upon her death, in 1896, did her son, then 34, half-heartedly consider finding a wife.
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I had built the stretcher half-heartedly, and one of the corners was not screwed on correctly.
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Return four books that I finished (three very quickly and one half-heartedly) and pick up another three.
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I went up there, shooting color initially, and carried on with the project, half-heartedly for a time.
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After years of half-heartedly and occasionally hamfistedly building gadgets, Google's finally all-in on the hardware game.
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The GOP also released a video featuring Asian Americans (half-heartedly) sharing why they would vote for Trump.
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As she shimmied around the man's cart, still yelling in his face, she half-heartedly lurched at him.
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I did ten sets, got tired, left to drink some water, and half-heartedly did a few more.
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They have a friendly relationship, and even when Darlene half-heartedly offers a handjob for his payment, Louis refuses.
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But hey, you don't get to more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers by half-heartedly building your DIY cat towers.
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So a lot of us end up pushing away the task, or we do it half-heartedly. ""http://mashable.
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The story's premise of Lara-as-outsider is cool, but it only half-heartedly attempts to do anything meaningful.
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Many Democrats didn't even bother clapping; those who did applauded half-heartedly and stopped well before their Republican colleagues.
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My superfan persona developed because I'm very passionate about something I love and I never do anything half-heartedly.
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Four indigenous groups alleged in court in December that Ottawa delayed sharing key information and listened half-heartedly to concerns.
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But although most party officials have embraced the president only half-heartedly, Republican voters seem to have far fewer reservations.
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Projects such as Operation Ceasefire, which stopped tit-for-tat killings in other cities, have been tried only half-heartedly.
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A few English players appealed half-heartedly for a penalty, believing Maguire was held, but the referee showed no interest.
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O'Malley is right in saying that candidates can't approach this issue half-heartedly and claim they are strong on climate change.
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But why do we need to continue this elaborate set of backdoor workarounds to half-heartedly move towards a just reality?
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Let's just say it's game over for the part of us that was still half-heartedly fighting the lip kit craze.
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If Americans are going to consider whether to restructure the nation's highest court, it shouldn't be done haphazardly or half-heartedly.
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When brands aren't half-heartedly pushing "woke" ads into our news feeds, their social media accounts are filled with meme-y content.
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Critics have accused the IAAF of policing doping only half heartedly, afraid to publicize scandal or tarnish the reputations of famous athletes.
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Interestingly, Al Gore half-heartedly defended the action because the tariffs are temporary and not as large as they could have been.
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Like Daniel half-heartedly working as a McDonald's busboy, I felt that society's norms were frustratingly tedious and out of my grasp.
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Labor's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was a long-time Euroskeptic who half-heartedly campaigned for remaining in the EU during the 2016 referendum.
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He is amicable with his wife because they make a good team, and he half-heartedly pursues trysts with friends of both genders.
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I also "mark" the arms, which is a dancer habit in which you half-heartedly go through the motions to remember a piece.
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Recreating six of the series' iconic terrors and half-heartedly referencing a handful more, Øvredal's take is dutifully appreciative of its source material.
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In other sports, free agents usually claim half-heartedly that their decision is not about money, but ultimately sign with the highest bidder.
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When faced with this unexpected confrontation from a homosexual, he half-heartedly mumbled "fucking queer," got back into his car, and drove off.
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In the end, he did, but half-heartedly, saying he should not have been judgmental, but standing by his opposition to greater gay rights.
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Kerber was caught on a microphone calling the Canadian star "the biggest drama queen ever" after half-heartedly completing the traditional post-match handshake.
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" He's given a pint, from which he half-heartedly stabs a small melty spoonful of ice cream that he eats with a mediocre "mmmh.
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Gonzalez and Conner half-heartedly sing songs like Linkin Park's "In The End" and Imagine Dragons' "Believer" while the corresponding TikTok video plays on screen.
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It's hard to see what the point of this statement is, other than to half-heartedly recast the controversy as a debate about media bias.
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It was Belichick playing chess and O'Brien watching TV and half-heartedly continuing his failed plan after it was exposed in his first three moves.
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The perpetrator half-heartedly apologized, they hadn't struck me intentionally, but still stared at me like I was an idiot for standing in place too long.
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The prime minister half-heartedly offered a coalition government to Podemos, a further-left party, only to see his offer rejected before he yanked it back.
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This is another reason to consider if it's worth over $100 a year to half-heartedly leave Zumbo's Just Desserts on for hours at a time.
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I didn't want to get spanked half-heartedly — it wasn't nearly as enjoyable if the person giving the spanking wasn't as into it as I was.
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"She also said that officers made victim-blaming insinuations such as, "If I was getting raped, I wouldn't have stuck his dick in my mouth half-heartedly.
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He obliges half-heartedly, but when I hand him the treat he licks it a little before trotting back to the living room to chase his tail.
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So we're left with this: a video for "Wait," in which Levine half-heartedly lip-syncs while pretending he's a cartoon koala, or that he wears glasses.
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National security adviser H.R. McMaster half-heartedly denies the Washington Post report, which at that point has been confirmed by Reuters, the New York Times, and BuzzFeed.
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I realize just how much of a cliché that is: girlfriend reads her boyfriend an article, he feels guilty enough to half-heartedly make an empty gesture.
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The concern here really isn't on the part of the people investing their livelihoods in the platform, but on the part of the consumers half-heartedly reading headlines.
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NATO is another international organisation the US president has in the past endorsed only half-heartedly, and he has often used it as a stick to attack Merkel.
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Pausing and reflecting is not the Jennings' strong suit, but now they're both being dragged back into memory, even as they half-heartedly keep chugging forward with work.
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Brazil was slower than some of its neighbours to embrace—and then only half-heartedly—the "Washington consensus" of liberal reforms in the 1990s, notes Mr Castro Neves.
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And so Gretchen and Jimmy admitting they care about each other, Bojack apologizing for being an asshole, and even Julie and Billy half-heartedly attempting kindness feels momentous.
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With Jim Belushi subbed in for John, the group awkwardly tried to half-heartedly perform some soul songs for long enough for ZZ Top to take the stage.
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First, let's be clear: The Microsoft Surface Studio is not a "new category" of device, as company executives half-heartedly teased during the keynote leading up the big unveil.
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I hit the large black button half-heartedly, and even though I get nowhere near "Mega Strength," the attendant awarded me first prize — a four-foot stuffed Clifford dog.
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He's disappointed to find himself grown up and stuck listening to kids half-heartedly playing instruments in a classroom instead of spending his days and nights on a stage.
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He's relieved to clear his conscience, having quibbled half-heartedly with the ethics of it all throughout the film, but it's a pretty thin bit of 11th-hour redemption.
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After Jae Crowder's 235-pointer pulled the Celtics within 2100-230 with 215:211 left, James half-heartedly tapped the ball back to Irving after receiving the inbounds pass.
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This looks like the work of someone who half-heartedly stuffed some bubble wrap they had lying around into the jar 'cause the brain was rattling around too much.
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When they do, he angrily slams a steak and plastic cup of macaroni and cheese into the microwave, then sits next to his producer to half-heartedly pick at it.
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When you do talk, it ends up being one of those "how is the weather...?" scenarios in which you almost break up but half-heartedly resolve to make an effort.
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The West, led by the United States under President Barack Obama, half-heartedly backed the effort to topple Assad's regime but didn't have the stomach for it in the end.
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As I was being half-heartedly throttled by Tom for the last time, I promised myself I would never let my loins derail my life again: I was done with sex.
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Colbert half-heartedly apologized for the joke on Wednesday, saying his words were "cruder" than they needed to be following the #FireColbert boycott that spun up on Twitter in the aftermath.
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The armband was initially handed to Sergei Ignashevich, but he did not put it on, and eventually it found its way back to goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev who half-heartedly accepted it.
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The montage format has caught on because it works — if what you're wanting to show is online dating as a futile, demeaning process, in which the protagonist is only half-heartedly interested.
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My reactions included half-heartedly clapping, audibly saying "dayum" whenever a suit-clad Dornan would pop up on screen, and, of course, snorting whenever Mr. Grey would send a "Laters, Baby" text.
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Some of her grievances were, in fact, fairly standard behavior by a primary opponent, and her accusation that Sanders only half-heartedly supported her candidacy against Trump is belied by the evidence.
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Despite Donald Trump campaigning half-heartedly for his opponent, Luther Strange (and later deleting his tweets of support), Moore got the endorsement of former White House adviser and Breitbart king Steve Bannon.
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It's worth it to find time to hang out with your friends (or just catch up on the phone) when you want to, rather than half-heartedly saying yes just to be nice.
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President Trump, who has praised Bin Salman, has characteristically refrained from condemning Saudi Arabia, though he has half-heartedly suggested that he would take action if presented with proof of the crown prince's culpability.
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CompatibilityWe know Apple's approach by now: It may half-heartedly support iTunes for Windows and Apple Music for Android, but it really wants its users to be running Apple hardware and software and nothing else.
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My personal favorites are when the gun falls to the floor and Rayllamm either half heartedly pushes his man away or walks straight over to the gun, completely forgetting that the gunman is still there.
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But governments have for years dealt with the issue haphazardly, half-heartedly and with all the shortcomings in state capacity that put Asia's underbelly to shame compared with the continent's less democratic but more efficient countries.
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Still, the magazine's copy editors dutifully hyphenate "teen-ager" even as we half-heartedly enforce the ban on "balding"—the editor William Shawn preferred "partly or partially bald"—without knowing exactly what is wrong with it.
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But that's a new kind of fight I'd be happy to watch — along with seeing a startup try to prove out a subscription model, something a number of automakers have so far only half-heartedly attempted.
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As highly as he's regarded, we've come to accept that Drake is subject to drop a few lyrical duds here and there, endlessly pushing and pulling between being wronged and half-heartedly apologizing for his own wrongdoings.
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Labour had campaigned to Remain during the referendum—but only half-heartedly, owing to the lifelong Euroscepticism of its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who has brought the party far to the left since becoming its leader nine months ago.
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As Watts half-heartedly pleaded for his wife and kids to come home, he shuffled awkwardly from side to side and seemed bizarrely nonchalant — almost unconcerned — about the fate of his pregnant wife and their two young daughters.
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Mr Corbyn, a convinced Eurosceptic who campaigned only half-heartedly to remain in 2016, has confused matters further by appearing to accept that any referendum should have an option to remain, but also saying that "we can't stop" Brexit.
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Still, Uber is not known for half-heartedly entering into new areas: Its self-driving car initiative went from a partnership with Carnegie Mellon to a fleet of autonomous vehicles in active public trials around 18 months, after all.
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" An earlier White House statement half-heartedly cast the decision to leave as Scaramucci's, asserting that he "felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.
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Though she's half-heartedly working on a book collaboration (that goes south over the course of the series), she appears to spend most of her time jetting back and forth between London and New York for extended booty calls.
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Villanelle, after half-heartedly trying to shoot Eve, disappears, setting up their cat-and-mouse game to resume in Season 22011 — which begins airing on BBC America on Sunday, April 21, and picks up 26 seconds after Villanelle's escape from Eve.
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The party's official stance before the referendum had been to support staying in the EU, but critics accused Corbyn of campaigning so half-heartedly that many Labour voters were unaware of the party's position or ignored it and voted "leave".
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When you start to get sick of Rose Die Hard-ing her way through an air vent into the building, bam, there are some employees snidely commenting on their inter-office rivalries as they half-heartedly work out an escape plan.
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The Canadian, who had struggled throughout the match, tried to carry on but half-heartedly played a Kontaveit serve and then started walking off the court only to casually swat aside a return before signaling to the chair umpire that she was done.
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Part of the problem is 21 Savage, who slurs away behind too many of Cardi's lines and comes through with a weary and unimaginative verse of his own, half-heartedly rapping something about hot sauce and titties and getting a blow job.
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You and Vic, now BFFs, will sit in a booth, watching semi-regulars get half-heartedly cut off, realizing the decision to go to Carousel, right at the edge of an unseemly part of town, was the best one you made all night.
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And had things ended with Miller standing on top of a mound of dirt, half-heartedly brushing the dust off his waterproof, it would have been a perfectly good (if slightly on-the-nose) stand-in for his struggle with, and difficult recovery from, alcohol dependency.
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Just after noon today, PewDiePie, the biggest star on YouTube, released a video in which he half-heartedly apologized for his use of Nazi imagery and anti-Semitic language, blamed the media for unfairly targeting him, and teared up as he thanked his fans for their support.
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Labour also seems likely to tear itself apart, after its hard-left leader, Jeremy Corbyn, campaigned half-heartedly for Remain and the party's leaders were forced to confront their abandonment by English working-class voters fired up by Leave's message of anti-globalisation and haul-up-the-drawbridge nativism.
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The Labour leader's droopy performance during the referendum campaign, in which he backed Remain only half-heartedly, contributed to the dismal result and exposes him for the conservative he is: a left-wing Little Englander, an abrasively nostalgic memorabilia junkie, the left's answer to the Duke of Edinburgh.
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The idea that he joined the SS dispassionately and half-heartedly fits with much of what we known about the British Free Corps, but must also have made his story more palatable when he returned to a country that could feasibly have thrown him in jail, or worse.
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It also suggests that rich-country police forces, which half-heartedly investigate the illegal trade in animal products because it they see it as a remote problem, might become more interested in tackling it as part of their war against the drugs trade, a problem their taxpayers do care about.
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The best-case scenario is either facing a bona fide extremist who the Republican party is inclined to abandon and support half-heartedly if at all in the general election — like Trump or Cruz — or facing a Republican party in total disarray without a clear nominee until the convention in July.
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Without any drama to ignite the now-tired trope of rich girls in the sticks, Fox ultimately dropped The Simple Life that year due to low ratings, and it moved to cable on E!. Her real-life conflict with Richie was half-heartedly hinted at in the final episode of the fourth season.
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Read more: People are mesmerized by a viral video that shows what happens when you put an egg in vinegar and maple syrupIn an exchange that captured the hearts of viewers across the country, Cheryl's husband Victor half-heartedly tries to convince her that no one burned down her she shed, and that it was struck by lightning.
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Zayn and Swift are portrayed as a separated couple (I think?) tortured by their love for one another, and we understand that this is the case because Zayn half-heartedly smashes up a table and Swift resurrects her whole audition-for-the-school-play screaming and hair-pulling thing from the "Blank Space" video, as a special treat for us all.
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But they half-heartedly picked at some others this week: McKinnon, who is at this point pretty much a one-woman show, donned troll makeup and a weasely grin to play Jeff Sessions for less than two minutes, barely getting the joke "we all know there are two kinds of crime, regular and black," in before McCarthy called an end to the cold open.
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