Waiting out halfhearted enemies is a key Assad survival tool.
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Party officials made halfhearted attempts to stop the transmissions, arresting
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Any action, when it comes, seems halfhearted, if not superfluous.
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I do believe that — that Gillespie was a little halfhearted.
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There are halfhearted attempts to endow Terra and Maya with interiority.
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My attempt was halfhearted though; I knew the endeavor was doomed.
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Activists criticized a plan to empower small campaign donors as halfhearted.
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But those actions are mostly seen as halfhearted, incomplete window dressing.
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And according to critics, his poor, halfhearted campaigning doomed the "Remain" campaign.
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The company's support for its pro app, Tweetdeck, is halfhearted at best.
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Aqua says Sean made a halfhearted attempt to pay ... sending 2 checks.
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" Frank, with a halfhearted laugh, added, "That's not a very salable message.
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By the end of the meet, Bowman said, the clapping was halfhearted.
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The Trump campaign is making a halfhearted effort to maintain plausible deniability.
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They made a halfhearted attempt to rebut John Dean when he testified.
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It seemed like a halfhearted but still dangerous game of cat and mouse.
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The network will still be Fox, but essentially a halfhearted version of itself.
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Initially, Reed's attempts to find the truth are a bit halfhearted and mostly unsuccessful.
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A quasi-failure, a halfhearted attempt at something that could've been so much more.
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How much would it damage Clinton if he gave her only a halfhearted endorsement?
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For most of my twenties, I made halfhearted attempts at becoming a professional writer.
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Turkey's cooperation with its NATO allies, especially in Syria, will be sporadic and halfhearted.
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The Finnish government's project — too limited, halfhearted, ideologically skewed — can only yield inconclusive data.
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She did a few Vine-friendly dances — the milly rock, a sort of halfhearted whip.
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But the effort comes across as absurd, insulting and halfhearted when it's done this poorly.
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Tobias gets one scene to mourn his loss, and some halfhearted "sorry, dude"-style condolences.
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It is a secret so open that even its perpetrators seem halfhearted about hiding it.
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All of Fin's calls and emails on my behalf start to feel like halfhearted busywork.
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It's a modest, halfhearted add-on and, more to the point, the tour skips it.
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Ozark takes halfhearted stabs at answering all of these questions, but never with any conviction.
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It is the artist's passion for her work, not some halfhearted romance, that pulls her through.
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In other words, given the geostrategic context, sanctions are always going to be halfhearted at best.
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For the first two-thirds of the Grammys, every single political reference was halfhearted at best.
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It signals redemption with halfhearted waves of fatherly affection, ignoring the politics of this family affair.
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In truth, it was one of the first churches I, an irreligious, halfhearted Jew, had ever entered.
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But it's easy to warn people away from a poorly thought-through, halfhearted mess of a film.
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But when it comes to anti-Muslim hate crimes, Trump's reactions are often halfhearted, delayed, or nonexistent.
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And while Labour officially supported Britain's remaining in the European Union, Mr. Corbyn was halfhearted at best.
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There was also a halfhearted and short-lived attempt by Bardet to slip away on a downhill.
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The name of the company gives you a sense of the halfhearted satire Mr. Rabe is purveying.
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Some early, halfhearted attempts at social relevance aside, "Thriller" is an act of quotation and little else.
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She warmed up with some halfhearted stretches while Ms. Sorokko rewrapped her racket in gleaming white tape.
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Runty and timid, with halfhearted dreams of growing into an Aryan warrior, Johannes is bullied and teased.
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I made a halfhearted joke to my husband about just which Asian emperor this salad was honoring.
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There was a short-lived and halfhearted attempt to return to obsolete stances between 2007 and 2015.
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Some other local pubs, though, do not make even a halfhearted effort to live up to their billing.
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Many of the world powers pressing on different sides of the conflict have shown halfhearted interest in negotiations.
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The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has been accused of being halfhearted in his support for European Union membership.
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Nonetheless, the computer-equipped internet lounges were rolled out in 100 Sears locations — but in a halfhearted manner.
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She doesn't seem to have much of a purpose at all, and her jokes are halfhearted at best.
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As night fell on Madhura, Mr. Chaudhary sounded a halfhearted call for Ms. Kumari to make an appearance.
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Those "praise sandwiches" in which we surround a bad review with halfhearted, superficial compliments don't help either side.
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When Bella rises to dispatch her foes with her derrière, she only manages some halfhearted bumps and grinds.
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Ask a Showrunner "Rectify," the critically praised but sparsely watched SundanceTV drama, was never intended for halfhearted viewing.
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Katherine J. Whitaker, Brooklyn In a piece about Donald Trump's supposedly halfhearted disavowal of David Duke, et al.
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Crucially, Davutoglu gave only halfhearted support to a powerful presidential system, which Erdogan wanted to see "rapidly" introduced.
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Wheeler, completely, after making a halfhearted effort to develop her into a three-dimensional character earlier in the season.
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But a Trump rally can fire up otherwise halfhearted voters amid the usual fall distractions of football and hunting.
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"Soft" Brexit might sound weak or halfhearted, but it is also the only policy proposal that might actually work.
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To any number of Americans, the lewd, three-minute tape, and the Republican candidate's halfhearted apologies, were the final straw.
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I took a few halfhearted swipes at the easy chair, but it was Hugh who did most of the work.
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"I thought they played at four in the morning," he said, inadvertently acknowledging a halfhearted interest shared by some fans.
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And given that combination, I can see why you would read that as pessimism with a halfhearted nod to optimism.
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Not the Rockets, who took halfhearted swipes at the ball as Ginobili traveled to the rim in his time machine.
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Wade made a halfhearted attempt at reaching his hand out toward a fallen defender before he scooted on his way.
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Emmanuel Mudiay and Mario Hezonja rubbed Knox's head as Frank Ntilikina made a halfhearted attempt to jump on his back.
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The Taliban may also end its (halfhearted) efforts to cast itself as a more moderate alternative to the Pakistani Taliban (TTP).
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But the juxtaposition never really makes sense, coming off as a halfhearted attempt to bring some meta-commentary into the mix.
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What's more, the West responded with a combination of halfhearted condemnation of the coup plotters and a wait-and-see realpolitik.
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The official Israeli government spin was especially halfhearted: It began and ended with the insistence that Israel must defend its borders.
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They talked tough about exploiting the throwing yips of Jon Lester in Game 5 yet lost big in a halfhearted effort.
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This also helps you identify halfhearted buyers or sellers so you can exit negotiations before wasting too much time and energy.
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As much as I liked Barack Obama, his halfhearted, pro-Wall Street response to the Great Recession cost the Democrats dearly.
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The airstrike represented the beginning of what would be years of intermittent strikes, part of halfhearted bids to retake the city.
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The latest effort came from Marwan Mohsen, but like the others it was halfhearted and not from a particularly good location.
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His tweet led some lawmakers and longtime critics of the program to believe Trump's decision to rescind the program was halfhearted.
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In an office downtown, my coworkers play halfhearted games of ping-pong while drinking beers from the open bar in the lobby.
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Dad's reaction to catching it is halfhearted at best, until he sees the size of it and notes the words: 'New Record'.
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" This was the latest iteration of what Matt Yglesias has dubbed the "Trump Tango" — "a halfhearted disavowal" of racism "way too late.
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William Westmoreland made a halfhearted to attempt to impose the ban on women at the front lines, but it was too late.
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Speaking to the writer Katie Way, Grace describes halfhearted — at least on her part — oral sex and Ansari's insistent push for intercourse.
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The Conservatives are now trotting out policy proposals that look like halfhearted raids from the Labour platform — diluted versions that lack credibility.
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Despite claims that they are open to working with Democrats, it was clear on Thursday that such overtures from Republicans were halfhearted.
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On the night I saw it, the audience response was polite but halfhearted because by then it was already a certified flop.
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The result feels like a halfhearted sendup that can't help but wear its tendency to lecture like a misplaced badge of honor.
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And so the biggest moment of his MSNBC town hall Monday night in Fresno, California, was his halfhearted defense of former Sen.
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Yet by failing to make even a halfhearted case for an alternative, Republicans are helping to clear the path for their opponents.
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Health-related PTO allows employees to return to work focused, contributing more than if they'd turned in halfhearted work while under the weather.
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Which is why all this guff about "therapy" and "wake-up calls" and the half-baked, halfhearted apologias are all just more masking.
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The contest was sort of a joke, a halfhearted way to include the WNBA in All-Star Weekend that never evolved beyond that.
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It's supposed to be zany fun, but as with most of the rest of "Crisis," Mr. Allen's halfhearted direction doesn't get it there.
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In the past, our halfhearted attempts at debt payment resulted in a lot of backsliding and bouncing debt from one card to another.
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They have piled on subsidies, halfhearted jobs programs and forbidding public housing projects, then forgotten about them until eruptions of violence and discontent.
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A halfhearted effort to stop the bill won't protect millions of Americans from losing their insurance and, ultimately, from being denied medical care.
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The halfhearted effort poked the ball mere inches inside the right field line, and Cespedes took off for his adventure around the bases.
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On several occasions, she tried to kill herself in halfhearted ways, eating food that had gone bad or exposing herself to cold weather.
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Its mood runs to petrified anxiety and halfhearted defiance: artists, with their sensitive antennae, having picked up the worst of the maddening static.
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And neither the halfhearted battle that preceded their escape nor or the ambitious but unevenly executed show that depicted it was a revolution.
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In what played as a halfhearted attempt at farce staging, Alison hustled Noah out the back door while Cole came in the front.
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If this particular mixtape feels somewhat tentative, blame halfhearted efforts to widen her range and prove that she's more than a novelty artist.
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But whatever direction the writers take will be strongest if they scale back their halfhearted adult intrigue and embrace their well-realized juvenile humor.
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But so much of that is buried beneath lengthy cutscenes that explain little, and halfhearted gameplay modes that don't add anything to the experience.
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Timberlake, meanwhile — the person who actually took off Jackson's clothes, however unintentionally he may have done so — coasted through on a few halfhearted apologies.
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Games on the Apple Watch have always been a bit halfhearted, but the new Field Day app works well on the device's tiny screen.
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Another sandwich, another water, another halfhearted fruit, and she sat with the whole accumulation between her legs and no one tried to take it.
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They could easily make a halfhearted referral to law enforcement and then use it as a smoke screen to avoid a potentially devastating disclosure.
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The government, which was always halfhearted about austerity and reforms, promises handouts; the opposition vows to overturn policies and decisions with which it disagrees.
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One of my many deficiencies as a mother, I always felt, was that I did a somewhat inadequate and halfhearted job of celebrating fall.
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Some charge that domestic considerations led Johnson to wage the war in a halfhearted way that prevented American forces from winning on the battlefield.
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By the 2018 midterms, Mr. Obama abandoned that reticence and campaigned aggressively against Mr. Trump, emboldened by the president's halfhearted response to his attacks.
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Indeed, through the years the words at AFL-CIO rallies grew halfhearted and wooden — about uniting working people across racial lines, around their shared interests.
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Violent high jinks aside, the story offers little that's surprising or even particularly tense, and a few halfhearted attempts to add dramatic weight fall flat.
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Clearly, Rouhani and his colleagues did not believe that the White House would continue along an appropriately confrontational line after one round of halfhearted sanctions.
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This is admirable, but by the end it also feels halfhearted, as what looked like a dystopian fantasy turns into an exercise in wishful thinking.
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Tendi, who has just had her hair braided, in a halfhearted nod to her African heritage, embodies her mother's dreams of passing in this country.
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Arsenal released a statement on Thursday that lacked even halfhearted words of support for its longtime manager, Arsène Wenger, who joined the team in 1996.
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Some have accused the hard-left leader of the party, Jeremy Corbyn, of being halfhearted in his support for the campaign to remain in the bloc.
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The Holland Tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey has its fair share of issues, but the most egregious of all is the halfhearted holiday decorations.
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There's some notable comedic talent onscreen, particularly Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, and Maya Rudolph, but they're wasted on a halfhearted premise, sluggish pacing, and slapdash execution.
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But its decision to create Gilead as a postracial society and ignore the inner lives of its women of color makes its feminist aims feel halfhearted.
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His halfhearted attempt to cover himself with one hand as he swayed was mostly ineffectual, which only made his friends laugh harder and cover their eyes.
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The Thread RE: FIRST WORDS Wesley Morris wrote about public figures being forced to "disavow" unseemly opinions and connections, even though the gesture is often halfhearted.
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With 10 seconds left, James was behind the three-point line, dribbling away from Hezonja's halfhearted swipes at the ball, like a lion toying with a kitten.
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Good job Jeff...... After his halfhearted callout of the White House, Sasse launched almost immediately into full-throated support of Kavanaugh and his record on the bench.
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The current GOP candidate's recent, halfhearted attempts to soften his image on race issues suggests he has become belatedly aware that the demographic math works against him.
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The movie-censorship story is one of starts and stops, halfhearted attempts, and a public caught between Victorian standards and an eager desire to see the forbidden.
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Worse yet, his theory lacks elegance: It isn't anchored by a throughline, but instead consists of old worked-over, half-baked theories linked together in a halfhearted narrative.
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He made a halfhearted bid for re-election in 1884 but lost the nomination to James G. Blaine and died of the disease two years later, on Nov.
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" He called this "admirable," but said that "by the end it also feels halfhearted, as what looked like a dystopian fantasy turns into an exercise in wishful thinking.
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The idea of providing Ukraine with $50 million-worth of anti-tank missiles is eerily reminiscent of Washington's halfhearted efforts to train and arm the moderate Syrian opposition.
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Justin Kan, the technology investor who had made a halfhearted effort to stock up on food, recalled a recent phone call from a friend at a hedge fund.
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In another, Bernie and his wife, Ruth, make a halfhearted suicide attempt with fistfuls of Ambien, prompting a nightmare sequence in which Bernie is haunted by his conscience.
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Mele had been unhappy with Versalles's play at shortstop, and when Versalles seemed to make a halfhearted attempt to field a grounder against the Mets, Mele yanked him.
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After initially responding with halfhearted gestures and speeches about workplace culture, Evan said, leadership at the agency eventually succumbed to the pressure and gave every employee a raise.
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They still booed the news media, but the effort seemed halfhearted, and they did not muster the chant against CNN that has become almost de rigueur in recent weeks.
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It seems like a halfhearted concession to Latinas — half a Disney princess — but it's more than other girls still waiting to see themselves on the big screen have received.
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Most people wage a halfhearted battle against technology's takeover of everyday life, but Erin Pollock funnels her tech-istential angst into paintings that artfully illustrate society's reliance on cellphones.
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And I have a rotator cuff strain that has simply become part of my baseline anatomy, cackling, I imagine, at my halfhearted attempts to physical-therapy it into submission.
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A related myth thoroughly shattered by Mr. Trump: that an elected official in modern times must make at least a halfhearted effort to be something other than a racist.
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In South Vietnam itself, however, popular support for the war was always halfhearted, and a large segment (and in some regions, a majority) of the population favored the Communists.
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Sent to recover another escapee, he offers a halfhearted might-makes-right defense of the Saviors — "we were losing; now we're not" — before shooting the man in the back.
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Still, these halfhearted measures mean that Twitter continues to delegate the regulation of everyday abuse to its users, without themselves having to alienate harassers—or affect its usage numbers.
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After the Mets' halfhearted effort to retain him with a one-year qualifying offer after the 22015 World Series, Murphy signed a three-year, $26.15 million deal with Washington.
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Mr. Volcker was known to be frustrated with the Fed's halfhearted efforts to curb inflation, leading Mr. Carter's aides to warn that he might drive the economy into recession.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo apparently tried to smooth over chafed feelings by suggesting that his efforts were halfhearted, according to Senator James Tedisco, a Republican from the Schenectady area.
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Unfortunately, I'm no cook — my halfhearted attempts at preparing dinner all inevitably end up affectionately being referred to as "gruel" by my husband, who is a much better cook.
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Now he's 67 and making a living doing halfhearted gigs in clubs, delivering routines laced with profanity and self-loathing, and snarking at his long-suffering manager (Edie Falco).
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I can question why you'd pad this fan service with such a halfhearted and blatantly nonsensical plot, which ends on an equally nonsensical cliffhanger that's spoiled by the film's trailer.
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A halfhearted heroin habit, her "sweet smoke," helps with the pain that so suffuses the last part of the book it only just stays on the right side of maudlin.
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Worse includes a penchant for atrium-oriented spectacle, like Tilda Swinton sleeping in a vitrine; earsplitting music at seemingly every opening; and the debacle that was its halfhearted Björk retrospective.
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My last few reps are pretty halfhearted, so I stop and lay down on the floor while I contemplate how I'm going to get through 30 minutes of interval training.
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Despite various halfhearted and soon rescinded congressional measures to prevent ex-Confederate leaders from returning to power, many of them didn't just skip out but skipped right back into Congress.
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But Rubio's halfhearted reform conservatism was outbid and overwhelmed by Trump's brassy promises to renegotiate trade deals, slap on tariffs, leave entitlements untouched and bring back the jobs of 1965.
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Motivation, for instance: One person may be mentally ready to diet, while another might make only a halfhearted effort, surrendering to temptation after a short time on the assigned diet.
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So in the fall of 290 I made two halfhearted attempts to avoid the uncertainties of the draft: applying to join the Peace Corps and Air Force Officers Candidate School.
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Our primary mistake was miscalculating the lengths that Mr. Assad's allies would go to prop up his rule, while believing our halfhearted measures would be enough to tip the balance.
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I appreciate the developers trying to keep things varied and interesting, but I could do without the halfhearted attempts to turn the game into a cover shooter or naval battle simulation.
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The humans are, at best, enigmatic or halfhearted allies, and they're far more likely to appear at their worst, treating empathy like a burden they're thrilled to get out from under.
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There may also be some halfhearted attempts to get preferred shareholders to waive their anti-dilution rights, but the waiver has to be unanimous, so don't expect it to happen often.
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It looks like someone's moving into the adjacent apartment — I give a halfhearted wave and figure I'll say hi to them a little later, hopefully when I'm less tired and sweaty.
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An anti-immigrant stance in Denmark is now neither masked in clumsy euphemisms nor accompanied by halfhearted gestures of conciliation toward the "New Danes," as the old assimilationist term put it.
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The meeting with Mr. Putin was followed by a week of halfhearted walk-backs and position shifts that have left many lawmakers questioning Mr. Trump's ability to be tough with Russia.
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United Airlines' apology struck many people as halfhearted after a passenger was roughly dragged from a plane last year simply for declining to give up his seat on an overbooked flight.
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Ms. Kanan makes the black, thick-crusted barley-rye bread flecked with anise seeds that comes with a halfhearted taramosalata and, more excitingly, a swipe of butter creamed with seaweed powder.
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While the United States has vacillated between expedient deals, halfhearted sanctions, pleas to China for greater intervention and doing nothing, the North has methodically advanced its nuclear arsenal and missile capacity.
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In my own halfhearted defense, all three of those entries are pretty solid & if you're going to repeat a word, the most common in the English language isn't a bad choice.
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And while the two halves of its divided heart come close to embracing, they end up a few inches apart, in a climax that ends with the most halfhearted explosion imaginable.
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I made a halfhearted attempt at subterfuge, packing a few items of clothing that were not black or gray and taking care not to bring along any New Yorker -branded tote bags.
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With every week that this reveal is pushed back, the more danger the show is in that the answers are halfhearted shrugs, but I want to believe this is all headed somewhere.
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Sponsored by the Swiss wealth-management company UBS, the exhibitions have been promoted as significant expansions of the museum's non-Western collection base, though that growth comes across as limited and halfhearted.
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The league's approval of the Rams' aggressive push to leave St. Louis was the culmination of nearly 20 years of halfhearted attempts to bring a franchise back to the Los Angeles market.
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After one last halfhearted, face-saving attempt, King and an entourage that included his wife, Stacey Walker King, nodded sympathetically before bundling into their parkas to walk the rest of the way.
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His death doesn't affect Katya much — "I was used to his absences, and his being dead didn't differ that much from his being away" — but her mother's halfhearted presence is deeply damaging.
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I wish he had done more to press Mahmoud Abbas about the governance — and misgovernance — of the crumbling Palestinian Authority rather than pursuing another halfhearted attempt at a final Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
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She has an older brother, Hassan, who is a sergeant in the Army, and an older sister, Jamilah, who is a teacher — and gave track a halfhearted shot when she was young.
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Unemployment sank to 28.4 percent in May, its lowest level in 22007 years, the government reported Friday, but halfhearted wage growth and a shrinking labor force revealed the economy's stubborn weak spots.
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Problem is -- Rob is halfhearted about the whole thing ... not committing to the diet or exercise, and the family is worried his condition will worsen and his life will be in peril.
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In the weeks leading up to last night's Golden Globes, the organized "protest" planned by the actors and creatives set to attend the ceremony seemed halfhearted at best, and at worst, downright stupid.
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But it's also a clumsy, halfhearted setup for a sprawling television and film franchise that would see Roland filling in his backstory and continuing his quest, whatever it may be at this point.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's Republican endorsers -- ranging from the enthusiastic to the halfhearted to the come-lately -- together staked out a freshly warped position Monday: I'll take the candidate, but not his fights.
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A strong road showing against a quality opponent would set the tone for the rest of the year; a sloppy or halfhearted effort from the Bills could make Ryan a dead man walking.
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Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader whose support for remaining in the EU was halfhearted at best, is refusing to resign from party leadership despite losing a vote of no confidence by a landslide.
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" Then, you both rattle off some flashier version of your LinkedIn profiles to make it seem like you have your lives together, and cap off the conversation with a halfhearted, "We should hang out!
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With the US President not bending and with Democrats adamant they won't fold, 800,000 government workers could be without pay for days to come, and halfhearted attempts to break the partisan deadlock have failed.
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Starboard Value, an activist hedge fund that is seeking to replace Yahoo's entire board of directors at the next shareholders' meeting this summer, has repeatedly accused the company of running a halfhearted sales process.
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The Labour Party was also in turmoil, with a leadership challenge being organized against Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left legislator who was blamed for a halfhearted effort to keep Britain inside the European Union.
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Even when it came time for performances from major stars, they were often turning to older material (Lady Gaga) or offering halfhearted cuts that didn't show them off at their best (Little Big Town).
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Part of what could go wrong today is evident in the way that violence in the left-wing core, the university campus, gets met with excuse-making, appeasement and halfhearted punishment from liberal authorities.
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Although he has continued the tradition of draping the novels around pivotal events in New York's recent history, McInerney's evocation of the aughts feels halfhearted compared with the scene setting of his eighties novels.
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Nets 8, Knicks 223 As the Knicks walked off the court at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night, slumping their shoulders and giving halfhearted hugs to the conquering Nets, a familiar reality set in.
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Had I been alone at the table that day, I would have risen to the bait, snapped at the man and his sign, or given him a halfhearted mercy laugh to get rid of him.
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His tweets on Friday morning were remarkable shallow and halfhearted, even by his abysmal standards: After seven horrible years of ObamaCare (skyrocketing premiums & deductibles, bad healthcare), this is finally your chance for a great plan!
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Erika begins her investigation, but some of her reporting is halfhearted, some of it is manipulative, and some of it is simply dishonest, as when she surreptitiously tapes conversations after her subjects have declined permission.
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The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was somewhat halfhearted in his support for the "Remain" camp, reflecting his ambivalence about whether staying in Europe would be the right focus when it comes to helping working people.
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The company is so large that its features often seem to succeed by default — Facebook's "save for later" button, a halfhearted competitor to Pocket and Instapaper, last year reached an astounding 250 million users a month.
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When Freddy offers him the opportunity to avenge his maiming, Naz gives a naked and prone Calvin a halfhearted kick in the ribs, looking every bit the helpless weakling who had shuffled into Rikers weeks earlier.
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It's true that abandoning human rights priorities in Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain will earn Trump criticism from some aid groups and Democrats, but Obama's halfhearted efforts in those areas essentially earned him criticism from both sides.
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If Alex had froliced naked at Lord's, or the Oval, he would most likely have elicited a few drunken cheers, then been led off by a conspicuously amused policeman and given a halfhearted slap on the wrist.
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Although the United States has provided the Saudi-led coalition with intelligence, airborne fuel tankers and thousands of advanced munitions, Arab allies have at times complained that the support is halfhearted and freighted with too many restrictions.
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While there have been some halfhearted and largely defensive attempts to address this issue, we have yet to form a consensus that a more diverse population is a benefit to be embraced and encouraged rather than shunned.
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Halfhearted dating plot lines collided with Nick and Jess's roommate Schmidt (Max Greenfield) luxuriating in all his most misogynistic tendencies, while his girlfriend and Jess's best friend, Cece (Hannah Simone), shook her head affectionately on the sidelines.
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" In the midst of his halfhearted spinning about the real purpose of the meeting with Veselnitskaya, Donald Trump Jr. tried to appeal to common sense: that if someone offered him "info on an opponent," he "had to listen.
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The company made a halfhearted attempt to chip away at Sony, Panasonic, Olympus, and other mirrorless specialists a few years ago with the Nikon 1 line, but as reported by NikonRumors, the whole series has now been discontinued.
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Prince Edmond de Polignac had unrealised musical ambitions, and had spent many years, at the insistence of his family, touring Europe in a genial, halfhearted, theoretical search for a wife; somehow, he—more than she—always evaded capture.
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But as long as Trump is willing to put up even the most halfhearted effort to don the mantle of the God-Emperor, few among his supporters will be tempted to go looking for the flab under it.
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Democrats, after mocking Republicans for rejecting their last-minute amendment effort with, as Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, put it, the fear of "scalded cats," made only a halfhearted effort to press the issue on the floor.
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Pondering the potential ramifications of an IBM-powered Trump presidency is genuinely terrifying, but with people like Hanley, who won't settle for the halfhearted handwringing of leaders like Rometty, there's hope that tech's top brass will see the light.
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In addition to training a spotlight on Mr. Cuomo in a re-election year, the trial also revived questions about ethics oversight in Albany in general, and halfhearted efforts — by both the Legislature and Mr. Cuomo — to strengthen it.
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The titles were the first clue that I would probably be disappointed by a halfhearted depiction of the Jewish holiday — nearly every other Hallmark Countdown to Christmas movie in history seems to have the word "Christmas" in its name.
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Books of The Times In his new novel, "The Fugitives," Christopher Sorrentino grafts a halfhearted, Elmore Leonard-style casino heist plot onto what is fundamentally the mournful story of one man's failures as a writer, a husband and a father.
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Bezos has a lot on the line under a Trump presidency, which may be why he's now approaching with a halfhearted congratulations rather than reaffirming his offer to shoot Trump into space — a comment he made this time last year.
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But it is unclear whether he remains as popular among the rank and file after leading a halfhearted campaign to keep Britain in the European Union, when many traditional Labour voters chose to stay home or vote against the party's position.
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Phelps took comfort in knowing he had put in the work and prepared well, in contrast with his haphazard, halfhearted approach to the 2012 London Games, where he relied on guile and guts to win six medals, including four golds.
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Closing neighborhood schools and churches despite vast wealth, and halfhearted efforts to punish priests for sexual abuse — not to mention changing the rules to accommodate disaffected Catholics — do little to advance the cause of the church in an increasingly sophisticated world.
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By contrast, Eileen is led to a dank basement with three other performers and directed through a halfhearted Viking scenario by a guy wielding an eight-millimeter hand-held and a crew that mainly consists of one woman working the lights.
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We made only halfhearted efforts with respect to NAFTA and when they did not work well because workers did not want to move from their communities or because the job skills they got were not adequate, the party moved on.
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In recent years the I.C.C. has disappointed some of its backers, who have observed its slow pace, inefficiencies and internal squabbles — and how many member governments only offer it halfhearted support, and fail to carry out court-ordered arrest warrants.
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To the extent that there's a plausible theory behind all of these halfhearted efforts, it's that resisting Trump too vigorously only strengthens his hold on the party's base, by vindicating his claim to have all the establishment arrayed against him.
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On Getachew's orders, Mohammod flipped the cutout switches to reactivate the electric trim, but apparently less to use the thumb switch — Getachew gave it only two halfhearted tries — than to activate the autopilot as a way of disabling the MCAS.
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And there was the shallow flare that looked very much like a routine fly when it left the bat of Magneuris Sierra in the third, only to drop at Cespedes's feet for a single after what looked like a halfhearted effort.
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As he rambled on in his motormouth way, doing a halfhearted impression of an offensively stereotypical notion of psychiatric distress, it was clear that this was a stock character who existed only to exchange this pitiful, canned dialogue with a player.
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Castoff wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. — he's been let go four times, most recently by Arizona — took a flip handoff left on an end-around, broke a halfhearted tackle attempt by Arizona's Justin Bethel, cut back and outran defenders to the end zone.
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Trump's halfhearted attempts at outreach makes for great click-bait and will own the media coverage, but it will not move the political needle for people of color who often feel pushed to the fringes of society or relegated to the shadows.
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If Tom is indeed helping Sidney Purcell's clients, it's very possible Purcell and his team are doing some clandestine lobbying of Congress on Tom's behalf, which would be a much dirtier, but much more sophisticated approach than Selina's halfhearted attempts to whip votes.
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The ideas are just things that the president would probably like to do but that someone will talk him out of, or that he'll forget about, or that he'll offer in a halfhearted way and that Congress will never bother to take up.
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Jones got some style points for a quick cut to his right to shed Bortles' halfhearted attempt at a tackle but was later thrown out of the game for slamming his arm into the leg of a Jacksonville offensive lineman following a touchdown.
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Inevitably, therefore, the conference has been a halfhearted beauty contest, as members of Parliament and other Conservatives have scrutinized potential leadership contenders, like Amber Rudd, the home secretary, Ruth Davidson, the party's leader in Scotland, and the cartoonishly old-fashioned Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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Being forced to witness this halfhearted apology tour among high-ranking officials is another prominent feature of having grown up during the crisis, one that brings me back to a different scene from 2009, which I tend to revisit a great deal.
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The major objection to cultural appropriation has always been about the abuse of power: inadequate research, halfhearted imagination and a lack of respect, the privileged assumption of the right to speak on behalf of people who are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves.
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On the Runway Fashion has become such a leaky balloon these days that by the time news officially breaks, it is often hard to muster up more than a halfhearted yawn because it had been rumored, expected or discussed for so long.
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In a wide-ranging discussion before the Heat's 22013-81 victory, Stoudemire lamented the decline of the Knicks during the past two seasons, appeared to lob some subtle criticisms of Carmelo Anthony and reproached his former teammates for their halfhearted embrace of the triangle offense.
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Only now, with Sarah's impending marriage, is that bond truly tested: by Lauren's halfhearted romance with an office temp and her impatience with her maid-of-honor obligations, by the disapproval of Sarah's well-to-do friends and by the revelation that Sarah is pregnant.
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But as evidenced by the season finale being a halfhearted clip show, where even the framing device (a faux episode of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live) feels indifferently executed, Inside Amy Schumer just ran out of gas somewhere between season three and season four.
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While there, he offered halfhearted support for the congestion pricing plan that may be New York's best chance to pay to fix the city's subways, which are frequently used by New Yorkers who don't have a police convoy to take them to their gym.
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Super Bowl 50's aftermath was dominated by one question: Why in the name of all that is holy did Panthers star Cam Newton appear to give a halfhearted effort toward recovering the football after fumbling late in the fourth quarter, with Carolina down a touchdown?
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It indeed made a halfhearted attempt to join in 1963 and 1967, but was blocked each time by the French president, Charles de Gaulle, who at the time was harshly criticized for uttering his now prophetic statement that the British government lacked commitment to European integration.
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Google, which trails Amazon and Microsoft in the fast-growing market, hopes to change the industry perception that it is halfhearted about its cloud computing service with product announcements, technology demonstrations and strategy briefings at a two-day conference in San Francisco that began on Wednesday.
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Political operatives and campaigns have maintained that the announcement by Google is a halfhearted attempt to address the underlying issues plaguing political discourse on social media, an issue that has made tech companies a target of withering criticism from Congress, advocacy groups and some Democratic 2020 candidates.
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Marisa Tomei's billionaire bad girl, Mimi Whiteman, was the closest the show came in the past, and she was unceremoniously suicided offscreen; Shyne (the recurring guest star Xzibit) is just the latest in a long string of halfhearted attempts to build a mini-Lucious from scratch.
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Other than a couple standout pieces that that underscore the franchise's sense of scale, the bulk of the adventure follows a generic hero as he guns through hordes of enemies and tired action movie tropes, only to be interrupted by halfhearted cutscenes, insipid twists, and hawkish military lingo.
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There have been coy hints to be sure, like when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a halfhearted "no comment" to 60 Minutes reporter Leslie Stahl when she asked him last year if Israel had improved its relationship with Saudi Arabia as part of a coalition against Iran.
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On the other hand, if you do have some experience with African TV — the glossy, unapologetic melodramas of Nollywood or the viscerally brutal action thrillers of South Africa — you may find "Queen Sono" unsatisfyingly in-between, a halfhearted and problematic attempt to dress up a soft Western-style drama.
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She has also just accepted a halfhearted proposal from her boyfriend, Stuart, which might be fine if the trauma of an emergency appendectomy hadn't transformed him from a loving companion and upstanding citizen into a gooey, unemployed mystic who has decided to walk across the country seeking enlightenment.
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There is a story in the movie, which bears a halfhearted resemblance to that most venerated of plots: The owner of the local theater, struggling to keep the lights on with the bank breathing down his neck, makes a last-ditch effort to save the theater by staging a spectacular show.
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Though he had released a few halfhearted tapes since 2012, it was last year's mixtape Shit Don't Stop that attracted the attention of both the streets and critics outside the city, branding him one of the most promising new artists in a genre most people have left for dead, gangsta rap.
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It's routine for Diaz brothers to follow a loss with utter disbelief, halfhearted charges of conspiracy, and the flexing of modest biceps—as happened here—and if you think the man from Stockton beat the man from Dublin, you can find supporting evidence in the tallies of total and significant strikes.
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The joke, with Masina, is that she couldn't be further from the voluptuaries who stalk through her husband's tales; with Mastroianni, the joke is that, though forever cast as a seducer, he is visibly hesitant and shy, halfhearted and half-cocked, as if embarrassed by the sway of his own lusts.
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Even his insistence on a third and final act — what seemed like such an egregious gesture of entitlement at the time — has come to look like a noble brand of civic fealty when held up against his successor's halfhearted, absentee approach to the day-to-day operation of the city.
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He dispatched Bouye with a vicious stiff-arm to the face, ran side-by-side with linebacker Leon Jacobs before simply whipping the pursuer to the ground, and then ran through a halfhearted tackle attempt by linebacker Myles Jack at around Jacksonville's 22014-yard line on his way into the end zone.
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Every time I saw him pause during a happy evening to write down a memory in his delicate script, I unscrewed the jar, pulled out the Post-it (despite his halfhearted protest) and smiled as I read his words: gratitude for our health, our home, our family, our dog, our friendship and love.
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Hawks and doves will bicker about whether he intervened too much or too little, but the reality is that he was simply halfhearted and ineffective in far too many cases, pursuing pre-existing ambitions (Iran, climate change, a settlement-obsessed approach to Israel-Palestine) when the crises of the day required more resolute attention.
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If eBay is a metastasizing megamall, it's one where slick, name-brand storefronts sit cheek-by-jowl with halfhearted garage sales, "junk drawer lots" of worthless oddments, and the sort of Weird Stuff, Really Weird Stuff, and Totally Bizarre Stuff (actual eBay categories) that wouldn't be out of place in a wunderkammer curated by John Waters.
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His advisers shift uncomfortably in their chairs, avoiding eye contact or bracing to clean up a public-relations mess — as was the case last month when Mr. Trump used a cabinet meeting as the backdrop to attempt a halfhearted walkback of his widely criticized news conference in Helsinki, Finland, with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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Angered that the separate peace in the East might allow Germany to tip the balance in the West, the Allied powers — England, France, the United States and Japan — turned their pledges of military aid to active (but eventually halfhearted) assistance to remnants of the czarist army, who were eager to take up the fight against the red menace.
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" Sports Illustrated tennis writer Jon Wertheim was more sympathetic—noting that Tomic's ennui might be related to having a notorious tennis father—but also called Tomic's persistently halfhearted performances "disgraceful" and speculated that his press conference might have been a "cry for help" by a 24-year-old tennis pro possibly suffering from "a touch of mental illness.
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Go back over who said what in the course of last year's referendum — we are still doing little else in this country — and the most startling, if not the most decisive, moment came when Mr. Corbyn declared his support for remaining in such a dispirited and halfhearted fashion that it could easily have been mistaken for an argument for leaving.
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Her main innovation thus far has been pockets (that's not sarcasm; pockets are great) but this time she also forewent the elaborate sets Mr. Lagerfeld made famous in favor of a mirrored floor and a few halfhearted smoke machines, across which her models ambled, sometimes in pairs, sometimes in threes, chatting away, as if they had forgotten they were on a runway.
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At one point Zeman and Mills insist the LISK has made a mistake in revealing too much to the friends and family of victims to whom he placed calls after the murders, but this assertion is pure conjecture and never plays a satisfying role in what is, by this point, the duo's halfhearted attempt to pretend the documentary is still attempting to solve the LISK murders.
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True, there were obligatory Hadid and Jenner sightings on the runway of Dsquared, where Bella Hadid opened and Kendall Jenner closed a show that had a rhinestone-cowboy theme that felt somehow halfhearted, lacking the crazed exuberance of the wonderfully gaudy stuff once devised for country music greats like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Gene Autry (and Elvis and Cher) by the inimitable Nudie Cohn.
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Though the screenplay gives him a halfhearted backstory about being with his parents, as a child, when they died in a car crash (and that would make him want to become a driver ?), most of his motives remain a blur; given a chance to flee, he hesitates, not because, like Ryan O'Neal in "The Driver," or Ryan Gosling in "Drive," he runs in some existential groove of his own devising but because he's barely a character at all.
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