Translation of "Halbherzigkeit" in English

I cannot accept either the indifference of some people, or the half-heartedness of this text.

Half-heartedness doesn’t give any progress; it is like only half-cooked food.

"But doing so demands bold steps forward: our market is no place for half-measures.

What we're up to is damned difficult and I do not tolerate half-heartedness, "he said.

Between realpolitik, which looks the other way when there is an infringement of human rights, in sway to other interests, and half-heartedness, there is a path of political will and political intelligence which is the one we must follow.

Commissioner, the half-heartedness of the Commission alarms me and I would say that, perhaps, one suggestion should be taken on board: avoid the capitalist trap, be offensive and, if you will allow the expression, "be liberal" .

I said that the report is excellent, not just because it rightly puts the two elements of the matter back into the spotlight - a combined action to reduce demand and to reduce supply - but also, may I say, because of the frankness with which Mrs Giannakou-Koutsikou criticises what is still insufficient in the Commission proposal, both from a financial and economic point of view - we cannot state the importance of a battle and then not follow through in financial terms - and from the point of view, shall we say, of the political half-heartedness regarding the initiatives that the States still have not made.

Half-heartedness, superficiality, a lack of courage, and complacency, indeed, insincerity about many of the key issues on the Community's agenda shape the picture.

When I questioned the Commission and the Council on my return from a mission to Tunisia, I was indeed astonished at the timidity of their responses to what can only be described as a violation of the partnership agreement between the European Union and Tunisia, at least of the clauses relating to human rights.

I trust that this timidity is not directly linked to other objectives, such as the organisation by the Maghreb countries, as some would wish, of a kind of policing system for our borders to curb illegal immigration.

Even so, the half-hearted manner of expression does not even do justice to the feeble attempts to tackle this question within the framework of pan-European transport cooperation.

These are valid concerns, but the alternatives – half measures or no reform at all – would only make a bad situation worse.

I am not talking about the half-hearted intents of several men, allowing them to sit at the same table as they do, but not giving them the opportunity to talk.

Gotovina’s flight from a war crimes indictment by The Hague – and Zagreb’s perceived half-heartedness in tracking him and other war crimes suspects down – delayed Croatia’s EU bid.

It is necessary to expose the half-heartedness and vacillation of these leaders in the national struggle, their bargainings and attempts to reach a compromise with British imperialism, their previous capitulations and counterrevolutionary advances, their reactionary resistance to the class demands of the proletariat and peasantry, their empty nationalist phraseology, their dissemination of harmful illusions about the peaceful decolonization of the country and their sabotage of the application of revolutionary methods in the national struggle for liberation.

This half-heartedness and inconsistency 90 years post factum did not at all meet the legitimate expectations of the descendants of victims and survivors - they reacted with disappointment.