But in his view that is better than the alternative, developing the building in "a half-hearted way."

Several days more passed before Johnson crawled on deck and went about his work in a half-hearted way.

Phillips returned the man's smile in a half-hearted, tentative way.

But that argument was made in a half-hearted way.

He continued with the book in a half-hearted way.

She doesn't do anything in a half-hearted way.

"They're working on that, in a half-hearted way," he told her.

Also she was eating a little hay in a half-hearted way.

She shrugged, in a half-hearted way that made him think there just had to be a little more to it than this.

Previously, these regulations referred to equal opportunities, but in such a half-hearted way that often nothing much was actually done in practice.