Sentences with phrase «halfhearted effort»
Children can sense when parents are making only a halfhearted effort or simply going through the motions of «doing the right thing.»
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For entry - level employees putting forth halfhearted effort may decrease productivity and stagnate upward mobility; for a CEO, president, or board member, career ennui can affect an entire corporation.
Schneider made a halfhearted effort to get data from Jacoby, who sent the remarkable refusal letter replicated in the CA post linked above.
The difference is that while the FEU - US completely ignored them, Lindzen did mention each factor in a halfhearted effort to justify neglecting them.
«The Office» co-writers Stupnitsky and Eisenberg give more workplace scenarios and awkward situations, but the level of comedy as akin to the lazy, halfhearted effort they put forth in their equally sophomoric Year One.
When you have a dating app that really works, like Match, don't spread yourself thinly; it's better to have a complete profile on the app you're using, rather than a halfhearted effort in multiple places.
Vaguely defined investment goals can lead to halfhearted efforts to achieve them.
Not exact matches
It is to be expected, therefore, that the history of land - reform efforts is one of political chicanery, violence, subversion and only halfhearted implementation of even those policies that have been established by government action.
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) blasted Grassley's investigative efforts: «To call the Senate Judiciary Committee's Trump - Russia investigation halfhearted is too generous.»
(They've been trying to lure him back into the fold, also, but have been understandably rather halfhearted in that effort.)
So far, however, there have been no efforts to save the wild axolotl beyond a few halfhearted outreach programmes and some photo opportunities.
For instance, the Common Core, which might have been a collaborative effort of 15 or maybe 20 enthusiastic states absent federal «encouragement,» became a quasi-federal initiative with lots of halfhearted participants.