We'd get a half-hearted effort of a few men in exchange for their selling our crisis to the global media.

We do not intend to waste resources in a half-hearted effort, general.

They pushed past the girl, who made a half-hearted effort to grab them.

There can be no excuse for half-hearted efforts to prevent and punish terrorism.

We make a half-hearted effort to resist, but end up ordering the wine as well.

She made a half-hearted effort to pull away from him, but ran into the implacable strength of his arm.

They were making a half-hearted effort at pretending to be pages.

Massachusetts is not the type of team St. John's can beat with a half-hearted effort.

Of course there might be a half-hearted effort to ferret them out.

But the Administration offers only half-hearted efforts to rally public support behind this approach.