The Democratic half-measures that follow Sanders's plan will be different from the Democratic half-measures that preceded it.
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Whatever the motive, the time for half measures is past.
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There can be no half-measures or cliffhangers with Negan's fate.
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There is simply no point in half measures at this stage.
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There can be no half-measures when democracy is at stake.
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The crisis is urgent; the time for half measures is past.
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Talking about half-measures wins votes, not prohibitive and serious action.
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I smear it all over the juicy chicken—no half measures here.
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Sanders and his supporters believe more incremental proposals are just half measures.
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Facebook is taking no half-measures when it comes to the coronavirus.
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"President Kennedy knew settling for half-measures wasn't good enough," Sanders says.
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Such an agenda would be inconceivable, had not half-measures proven worthless.
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Years of half-measures and wishful thinking have done enough damage already.
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No more half measures or product designs inspired by- or influenced by Google.
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Sanders's campaign has itself made it hard to argue for half-measures and
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"The time for half measures is over," San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said.
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Policy problems continue to fester because half-measures fail to provide adequate solutions.
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In the real world, however, you can go a long way with half-measures.
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No half measures, just a sharp and briefly painful leap to the next thing.
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No one wants to admit that our half-measures aren't working and won't work.
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From painful experience, he declares that half-measures like "independent" boards do not work.
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This country, founded by freed American slaves, has never done anything by half measures.
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This is no time for a wait-and-see approach or for half measures.
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The least you can say is that Mr. Py doesn't go for half-measures.
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At a moment of such constitutional urgency, the time for half-measures is over.
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But there is little appetite for half-measures among the vanguard of the protest movement.
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The Leftovers never took half measures when it could take double or even triple measures.
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I don't know why, because it's Scandal, and they don't do things by half measures.
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The country's floundering political elite offer half measures while dispatching riot police and the military.
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Puigdemont's choice of trying to balance on half-measures may cost him his political career.
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America and its international partners have offered mostly hand-wringing and half-measures in response.
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For good or bad, it seems Mr. Elkann has never been one for half-measures.
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"Gloves Off" mostly focuses on Mike, who makes an ominous decision in favor of half measures.
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But for the broader reform agenda, half-measures will likely be worse than none at all.
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The party could be gambling that half-measures can muffle dissent for a few more years.
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One person, however, seemed to understand that such half-measures wouldn't be enough: the president-elect.
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Half-measures in this direction have been tried, but they haven't shown a lot of promise.
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For many people who hate online ads, it could already be too late for half measures.
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We don't need more promises, half-measures and tweaks in a system that is clearly rigged.
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Some believe that moderation is an indication of a preference for half measures and weak principles.
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Instead of a detailed divestiture plan, Mr. Trump and his family have discussed several half-measures.
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"The time for half measures has passed," lead vocalist Dean Tzenos tells THUMP of the track.
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But it all drives home the point that the best art doesn't work in half-measures.
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Small half-measures would not have been enough to stabilize the financial services sector of the economy.
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These reforms were difficult, and the history of congressional reform is littered with half-measures and failures.
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" He claimed the company can't afford to take "half measures," adding: "It needs to ban political ads.
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The White House's past efforts that resulted in the blockade's temporary lifting proved half measures at best.
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There is no constituency for a presidential candidate who prescribes half-measures to put out a fire.
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Given that Mr. Lagerfeld never did anything by half measures, it is bound to be a doozy.
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We won't address climate change or a broken economy with half measures or with only half the country.
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Burke is constantly trying to open up to Melanie in what seem like some half-measures of confession.
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Wars fought with half-measures, unclear policies, and nebulous goals seem unending and the residual consequences are lasting.
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But when Democrats take half-measures, like they did on tax reform and now DACA, it means defeat.
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Though there's no room for half-measures: "It's not simply about adding a couple of lemons," she says.
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Yet I can't help but fear we're in for more speechifying and half-measures masquerading as significant events.
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"We can't defeat the opioid crisis with empty words and half measures," Warren said in a press release.
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Sanders parried by accusing Biden of advocating for half measures that would leave millions of Americans still uninsured.
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As politicians campaign on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, we've mostly been engaged in half-measures that require little sacrifice.
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Critics were swift to dismiss McCrory's actions as half-measures that do nothing to repeal HB2's discriminatory provisions.
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Clinton is proposing half-measures to single-payer in a way that wasn't common for Democrats 10 years ago.
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But Harvard said research suggests that such half measures did not achieve the same positive effect as outright bans.
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Because Fukunaga does not do things in half-measures, this somehow led to his becoming a devoted polo player.
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Right, but those are half-measures, and in any case they're not working — or not working for enough people.
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This decision doesn't undo a legacy of environmental destruction and its announcement is full of half measures and caveats.
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"It isn't five years of adjustments and half-measures that we have in front of us," Mr. Macron said.
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Whether Congress advances a strong proposal or instead casts about for half-measures that exacerbate partisan, demographic and economic divisions.
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Drastic steps are required to avert climate catastrophes, not watered down half-measures created to fit within corporate profit motives.
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If North Korea wants diplomacy, it should know that half-measures and spin about its nuclear program won't cut it.
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Even when it was buying clean energy, it did so in a manner rife with half-measures and cold calculation.
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He was, as Girard says, "a man of his time," a phrase that excuses the half-measures of great men.
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And to end the cronyism, half-measures, and central planning that brought us to the brink in the first place.
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All over the world, supposed climate leaders are driving us down a road of half-measures straight toward climate catastrophe.
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She, too, thought the government should shut everything down, and worried that half-measures would let the nation's wound fester.
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Never one for half measures, Dr. Knuth went on a pilgrimage in 1979 to al-Khwārizmī's ancestral homeland in Uzbekistan.
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"This is not a time for half-measures or incremental change," Emmert declared when the commission was formed in 2017.
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Jacare—like Romero—doesn't do half measures, he always punches for the knockout and shoots with the intention of finishing.
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Profile in Style 18 Photos View Slide Show ' Anna Sui isn't a fashion designer who does things by half-measures.
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To Sanders, his opponents are tools of big business and the rich, proposing ineffective half-measures or outright harmful ones.
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We do a great disservice to them if we settle for half measures when the true goal is in sight.
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So far, the FDA has taken half measures to address a problem that poses potentially-catastrophic consequences for modern medicine.
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Besson doesn't know how to take half measures, a welcome trait in a world increasingly full of cookie-cutter blockbusters.
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But many now think these are half-measures, and that a real revolution in the idea of scientific publishing is needed.
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But as the company's garish, multi-country August launch event happily reminded us, the Note has never been about half-measures.
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There's a saying in 12-Step groups that "half measures availed us nothing," meaning, you have to go all the way.
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What's true, of course, is that the most hardcore proponents of a jobs guarantee proclaim themselves uninterested in tepid half-measures.
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While scientists and politicians quibble over timelines and half measures, or how bad it'll all be, we are losing precious time.
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"This president is not about half-measures," Peter Navarro, one of Mr. Trump's trade advisers, said in August on Fox Business.
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Politically, Nadler served notice that he does not intend to take half-measures and that he is spoiling for a fight.
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That hard-to-swallow conflict ultimately reveals itself as the "no half-measures" approach of the one we've already been witnessing.
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And that's part of a pattern: Again and again, the plan offers half-measures that suggests compromises from more ambitious, better changes.
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But for all its compromises, deficiencies, and half-measures, it moved the country closer to universal coverage, and that's why it passed.
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This brings us to the labor-rooted rage that was directed at Harris's pilot program: People, generally, are tired of half-measures.
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I was born with a rare heart defect for which there is no cure, only a series of stopgaps and half-measures.
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The result is a sport that's at times incoherent, due to half-measures taken to create the perception of caring about safety.
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Erlangen, Germany Germans don't have a reputation for doing things in half-measures, and Masada's 2016 LP is further proof of that.
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For years, these sorts of sustainability half-measures have been peddled by the super-rich who refuse to give up their toys.
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No number of troops can remedy defective policy, incoherent half-measures, acquiescence to nation-states backing our enemies, or a weak will.
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These companies have all these half measures, like state-mandated pension programmes that are abandoned without any consequence when the company gets restructured.
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"Texans deserve real solutions to solve our gun violence epidemic — not half measures that are meant purely to score political points," Rahman added.
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So we'll be watching closely to see which presidential candidates support Medicare for All, and which candidates fall short, by backing half measures.
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Yet I don't think Democrats can beat Trump's growing fascism, racism and propaganda-driven lies with a theme of restoration or half measures.
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But I recommend against half measures, like keeping your cellphone in your pocket and claiming you'll look at it only if it rings.
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"With this strategic review, Thyssenkrupp has a chance to take several steps forward, or fall farther behind due to more half measures," Foerberg said.
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Oxfam claims the British government is taking "half measures" and called for the institution of public registers of offshore companies registered in tax havens.
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They continued to arrive throughout his Presidency, with advice that he avoid "half measures" and "smash" the machine he had driven for so long.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORIES: --A HAPPY MEDIUM OR HALF MEASURES?
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And since I don't like to do things by half measures — why go to "Die Walküre" when you could see a whole "Ring" cycle?
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Decades of half-measures aimed at finessing the economy to better days kept the ship of state afloat but left it in the doldrums.
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But what would you say to the people who say, half measures are what got us within a vote of the ACA being repealed?
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The proposal by Sidewalk Labs, which is owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company, doesn't go for half measures, particularly when it comes to technology.
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This movement has benefited from decades of misunderstanding and half-measures, when more decisive arrests might have made a real difference in saving lives.
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Generations of stop-gap legislation and half measures have yielded a patchwork system that is now antiquated, crumbling, and ill-equipped for today's demands.
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He has shown every sign so far of approaching 2020 in a similar spirit, and describes other proposed policy solutions as inadequate half measures.
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Activists opposed passage of the alternative marijuana bills on Wednesday, calling them half-measures that would not address years of harm to communities of color.
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"The challenge is so grave, the threat is so grave, that we can't meet it with half-measures or only half the country," he said.
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Lopez doesn't do things by half measures and she was already guaranteed to do the maximum in this performance, with her Oscars moment snagged away.
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"We've got to push this across the finish line and my sense is that half measures are just not going to get it," Castillo said.
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But he has been increasingly criticized for falling short, taking half-measures and shying away from the tough issues of overhauls to labor and land.
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Of particular concern are those who take half-measures: keeping part of their balance in target-date funds and trying their hand at allocating the rest.
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Instead, half measures left the group vulnerable to sagging gas prices – as when they dropped 35% in the second quarter compared with the previous three months.
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Clinton firmly declared that "this is not a time for half measures" as she laid out her wide-ranging plan to lift wages and create jobs.
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Short of a total withdrawal -- an in-your-face slap to every world leader who signed the COP21 climate accord -- were any number of half-measures.
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On the other hand, if they take only half measures to halt the spread of the virus we could see the worst pandemic in American history.
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If we're trying to cater to anyone other than ourselves here, this is going to be a half-assed record, a record full of half measures.
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She worries a recession is looming, which bolsters her conviction that this is no time for "the half-measures" that she believes Biden wants to pursue.
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" He described Riley as candid, but he added, "She is very intense and does nothing by half measures, and may be seen as an uncompromising person.
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Why has he consistently taken half-measures in Syria that accord with no one's best policy recommendation, including, by the evidence of the Atlantic article, his own?
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Not a sign of looming martial law"Limited duty days and restricted PT are half-measures and you're going to get half-assed results," the physician said.
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He said in an interview that the Japanese authorities had taken only "half measures" and "did not protect" the 3,700 passengers and crew members on the ship.
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The agreement has taken heat from all sides, with climate scientists criticizing it as weak, and leaders like President Trump finding even those half-measures too strong.
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You're comfortable blaming "economic centrism" for a lot of failed half-measures, but you go out of your way to defend corporate greed and the financial industry.
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He responded to the crisis either with half-measures, such as inadequate devaluations of the official bolívar, or policies that made things worse, such as new price controls.
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"He [MbS] does nothing by half measures, the backdrop of this OPEC meeting is his go big, or go home that we've seen in Saudi Arabia," she said.
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As complicated to enact and oversee this trust would be, as a disinformation researcher, journalism educator, and regular citizen I am sick of hollow promises and half measures.
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If this pair were relying on their collectively massive catalog to fuel a stadium show, that would be enough, but the Carter family does nothing by half-measures.
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Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said the United States "cannot accept half-measures" from China and pressed Billingslea on the timing of sanctions on China's biggest banks.
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In fact, while the N.F.L. takes half-measures and pressures its critics, the better to safeguard its gold mine, each day brings another player who challenges our fandom.
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The Obama history will help him with African-Americans, but many Democrats fret that Obama's tenure was marked by too many half-measures and not a full-throated liberalism.
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Instead, the Pyeongchang Olympics are left with this: half-measures like missing flags and unplayed anthems, and the full-throated boldness of Russia pushing the I.O.C. to make concessions.
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Where racial injustice was involved, the solutions often contained elements of the original problem: progress met with backlash, half-measures and implementation problems, and new hierarchies and discriminatory policies.
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Some Yellow Vests welcomed the speech, but many others complained that Mr. Macron put forward half-measures, and analysts suggested he would have to do more to quell unrest.
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On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw cold water on the red flag bills by calling them "half-measures," saying they must be paired with background checks legislation.
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"These are half-measures that largely serve to deflect political opposition rather than tackle the problem," said Mark Hays, a senior adviser at Global Witness, an anti-corruption group.
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"We find the move brave and necessary and a sign that Mr. Culp will not take half measures to improve the company," CFRA analyst Jim Corridore wrote to clients.
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"They've wasted a decade on half-measures and in that time vast areas of the natural world have been destroyed," said Anna Jones, head of Greenpeace UK's forest campaign.
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Speaking at a Security Council emergency meeting, Haley said North Korea's sixth nuclear test was a clear sign that "the time for half measures" from the UN had to end.
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As expected, she favors what commentators have labeled a "hard Brexit" – a complete rupture, with no half-measures, in order to fully restore Britain's sovereignty and control of its borders.
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Half-measures, such as those we have seen until the past few days in the United States, will only lead to a more intense and prolonged health and economic crisis.
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The policies held up as solutions in 216 are today regarded by many as insufficient half-measures, and more people think drastic, society-altering moves are the only way forward.
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"We Democrats are not going to settle for half-measures so Republicans can feel better and try to push the issue of gun violence off to the side," Schumer said Wednesday.Sen.
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Members of Congress should support the Saudi Educational Transparency and Reform Act because it will show Saudi authorities that the United States will not settle for half-measures on textbook reforms.
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And that half measures -- like the sort Harris has said she supports -- don't really bring the country to the hard but necessary solution of getting rid of the private insurance industry.
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President George W. Bush and the Republican Congress working under him from 2001-2006 proved that with half measures like temporary individual tax rate cuts and one brief corporate tax holiday.
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Pursuing Medicare for All would come with its own set of dilemmas: Eliminating an entire industry won't be easy, and we'll face plenty of political resistance and calls for half-measures.
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Linda Kavanagh from the Abortion Rights Campaign welcomed the government's announcement, but said the group would "not accept any fudges or half-measures" in relation to the wording of the referendum.
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But for those on the left, Obama is a more complex subject—a president who left behind a trail of compromises, half measures, and outright failures that are difficult to excuse.
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Nearly every Derrick Rose possession is now an experiment in fear management, full of hesitations, half-measures, fits, starts, and very occasional flights back into the glory of his former stampede brilliance.
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Read: Accepting North Korean nukes is not an option Haley said North Korea's sixth nuclear test was a clear sign that "the time for half measures" from the UN had to end.
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The new rules have been dogged by criticism since their inception by the ride-hail companies and the drivers they aim to protect, some of whom see the rules as half-measures.
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The sandwich arrived in all its splendor and I must admit that even my crude palate appreciated such sophistication: Brutal and without half-measures, the pork dominated all of the other ingredients.
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To the contrary, it is a story of a president pushed by domestic politics and overly optimistic schemes into interventionist half-measures that he didn't believe in and that satisfied no one.
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From his first comments of the night, he said voters were demanding "real change" from their government, and suggested without naming names that opponents like Mr. Biden were offering paltry half-measures.
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"We need to get folks behind their 100% renewables call — so that when the political tide swings away from Trump, the Democrats are no longer stuck with Trudeau-like half-measures," McKibben said.
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What's more, if Biden or Cuomo were to run and oppose single-payer, they'd be hit hard by all their opponents for being holdouts offering half measures rather than promising universal health care.
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Moreover, these half-measures distract from the most direct and effective path to alleviating shutdown-related pain — reopening the government along the lines of a bill which passed the Senate unanimously last month.
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But because insiders and outsiders alike see him as less of an outsider than Trump, those seeking a true outsider prefer Trump while those on the inside support Cruz with half-measures, at best.
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The world of the Marches becomes gentle, kind—beige, as it were—as if nothing could bring back the hour of real happiness, so we're all just going to get used to half measures.
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A venture capitalist based in the Midwest is telling his portfolio companies that if they want to survive the next 18 months, as capital dries up, they need to act now — no half-measures.
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This annoys leftists who think the Obama administration was characterized by neoliberal half-measures and liberal analysts who think, like Pfeiffer does, that Trump is a symptom, not the cause, of America's political crisis.
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It took about an hour for me to chill out and realize that if I wasn't going to delete my whole profile, a couple of half measures were not going to make a difference.
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" Without identifying the perpetrators, he urged recruits at a police training academy to act with neither "ambiguity or half-measures" towards "hoodies, looters and vandals, nor those who put up barricades or obstruct traffic.
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We find the move brave and necessary and a sign that Mr. Culp will not take half measures to improve the company ... Mr. Culp announces moves to restructure Power and accelerate the pace of improvement.
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Many of the attendees at this year's United Nations climate talks — known as COP24, shorthand for their formal name — expressed disappointment at what they saw as half measures to deal with a mounting climate crisis.
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LGBTQ activists hope for the latter, the BBC reported today, as there is concern about half-measures that would still institutionalize inequality (like approving same-sex unions but barring gay and lesbian couples from adopting children).
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His latest column for the Washington Examiner argues that Republicans have "already given up on repealing and replacing Obamacare" and are inching toward a cluster of half-measures that will be politically damaging and practically counterproductive.
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In an industry not known for half-measures and that has drawn flak for cruel or wasteful practices, including some companies embroiled in animal abuse scandals, many luxury houses are trying to improve their "green" image.
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For years, the alliance has struggled to find a middle position between Russia-skeptics and Russia-engagers — often settling on half-measures that satisfied no one and were not, to boot, taken that seriously by Moscow.
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But for the most part, Handel's effects — as with Armida's entrance "in the air, singing seated in a chariot pulled by two dragons spouting flames and fire from their mouths" — hardly lend themselves to half measures.
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Those who benefit from the current system on Capitol Hill will surely tell members of the select committee that such outcomes are too difficult and push them to focus only on easy or noncontroversial half measures.
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There's an argument to be made that by throwing his support behind the kingdom without any half-measures or virtue signaling, Mr. Trump is in a way being straight with the American people and the world.
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The Pentagon has assured the public that it's doing all it can to stem the coronavirus outbreak, but soldiers across the force say that guidance from experts has equated to only half-measures at their levels.
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If policymakers want to get serious about trimming wealth concentration, and not just use these shocking statistics to promote the same old half-measures, then this would be a fair, effective and practical way to start.
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They are the serious discussions of a free people who want to balance things -- all of which they would like to have in full measure --but things that inevitably compel trade-offs, half-measures and compromises.
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Now that London has finally struck back against an emerging monopoly—one that shows no respect for the safety of its customers or the security of its drivers or the law—why waste time with half measures?
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At a minimum, defeating the existential menace of the Trump movement means waking up, once and for all, from the many fatally compromised half-measures—and worse—that make up Joe Biden's fond imaginings of bipartisan comity.
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JOE KERNEN: I mean, not just an AG buy or, you know, a couple half measures -- a lot of people, Wall Street guys that are trying to figure out what's going to happen, that's their base case.
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"The half measures we're taking now are doing real harm to people's livelihoods without doing as much as they could to slow the virus," says Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development.
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The move is just one of a series of proposed changes that the protesters have rejected as half measures that would do little to overhaul Lebanon's sectarian political system, eradicate government corruption or save the crumbling economy.
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Seeing no virtue in half-measures, Moore seeks to overwhelm the viewer with material that ultimately points in the same unsettling direction, including a discussion of Adolf Hitler's rise and how democracy can give way to despotism.
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I'm not one of those who believe that Democrats should negotiate with themselves, in advance of submitting a proposal, so that they present only incremental half measures in the name of practicality and perceived ability to implement.
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Pusha's verbal pride is a formal passion that rejects both excess and half measures as he enunciates every syllable in his impassive, sibilant flow, and no objective observer would deny how skilled is at narrativizing the cocaine hustle.
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For years I have listened to academics, technocrats, hospital executives, and other health policy "experts" exaggerate the value of tinkering at the edges of our broken health care system and patiently waiting for half-measures to bear fruit.
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After all, if I try to solve a serious problem with half-measures that never prove completely effective, doesn't that trial-and-error experiment provide strong evidence that I should go to the very root of the problem?
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"The Board has proffered nothing more than a handful of inadequate and long-overdue corporate-governance half-measures, taken only grudgingly and under the pressure of an ongoing proxy contest," an Elliott spokesman said in an emailed statement.
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But O'Brien — who brilliantly captured the terrors of war in works of fictions like "The Things They Carried" and "Going After Cacciato," for which he won the National Book Award — is not a half-measures kind of guy.
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"No half measures" Hal from Malcolm in the Middle once said that in The Sopranos, and it's as true today — when discussing the best way to get a kitten out of a car dashboard — as when it was written.
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Also not surprising is that the players' complaints to the university have so far resulted in little more than some half-measures—the kind that universities love to use to give a facade of caring without making actual changes.
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NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Firefly Value Partners on Thursday asked Gulfport Energy for a seat on its board and criticized the "half-measures" which the U.S. gas exploration and production company is taking to improve its financial performance.
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It's bigger than that—objectification in all its guises, the futility of good intentions, the half measures passed off as progress, men who think they know what's best for them, men who think they know what's best for the world.
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Intel basically couldn't allow low-margin x86 products to cannibalize its high-margin x86 products, so it was stuck with half-measures, like Atom, aimed more at keeping ARM from moving upmarket into laptops than at moving x86 down into smartphones.
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" Mattis has also been critical of Obama's strategy against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), telling Time magazine in August that the current fight is "unguided by a sustained policy or sound strategy [and is] replete with half-measures.
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Indeed, what the Sanders movement, with its demands for purity and contempt for compromise and half-measures, most nearly resembles is not the Trump insurgency but the ideologues who took over the G.O.P., becoming the establishment Mr. Trump is challenging.
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Seemingly from the moment news broke Wednesday evening that Mr. Hanks, our American treasure, had tested positive for the coronavirus, conversations about the virus shifted from half-measures and are-we-overreacting Twitter debates to blanket cancellations and true fear.
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Though his case is an illustration of the disparity's pernicious effects, the fact that he is still in prison is also evidence of the half-measures, compromises and limited bureaucratic directives that resulted from a quarter-century effort to correct it.
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There's certainly a rich vein of learned helplessness running through the party's tendency to make the kludge-y, insufficient, better-than-nothing half-measures that formerly resulted from negotiation with an utterly perverse opposition party its current roster of opening offers.
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On Monday, in an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council following North Korea's successful test of a hydrogen bomb, Haley said that North Korea was "begging for war," adding that "the time for half measures" against Pyongyang was over.
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But rather than kill off third-party apps for good, it introduced a series of half-measures designed to bleed them out slowly: denying them new features, for example, or capping the number of users they could acquire by limiting their API tokens.
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While he has taken modest steps in recent weeks attempting to resolve certain conflicts, including closing his charitable foundation, these half-measures cannot solve the fundamental conflict posed by his continued ownership interest in his businesses or his children's management of those businesses.
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Bush was louder and clumsier in diving forward with such misguided efforts, but his Democratic predecessor and successor both peddled in half-measures in their first terms, when loftier goals than those established in the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Accords should have been set.
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They must speak out against efforts to undermine access to health care and abortion services and must call out half measures on policies like paid family and medical leave that would disproportionately harm women, marginalized communities like immigrants, LGBTQ people and people of color.
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Since then, Google has done what any self-respecting mega-corporation would do in a situation like this: Take a series of well-publicized half-measures to establish itself as "advertiser-friendly," win Wal-Mart back, and get the carping press off its case.
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Read more " _____ • Matthew d'Ancona in The Guardian: "An ideological phenomenon that leads to the deaths of children leaving a pop concert, and the mowing down of pedestrians in our capital city, cannot be tolerated or contained with half-measures for fear of causing offence.
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Bernie Sanders and co-founder of the group, said New Consensus is "trying to get a point across" by proposing "what you'd actually have to do to solve the problem" rather than what he described as the half-measures the Senate is poised to pass.
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Although May personally was in favor of remaining in the E.U., she has said the referendum result must be respected, and has since signalled her intention to pursue what has been described as a "hard Brexit" – a clean break with the union, with no half-measures.
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So the company's films indulge in half-measures designed to let viewers who are progressively inclined feel as if they're picking up on something truly new and interesting, while never actually challenging any of the baseline presumptions of a society that allows Disney to remain dominant.
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They floated various half-measures of their own, including — predictably — telling the mayor to use some of the city's budget surplus to cut a check to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which Mr. Cuomo controls, as well as increasing surcharges on taxis and other for-hire cars.
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Even the most towering diplomatic achievements are at best partial victories; what look like necessary compromises at the negotiating table become ripe targets for political attack when diplomats come home and present uncertain promises and half-measures to a public that prefers silver bullets and sweeping principles.
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"These half measures, like last night's strike, may make the U.S. feel better because we aren't completely absent from the fight against [Syrian President Bashar] Assad, but they just prolong the misery for the Syrian people," Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement.
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The country ought to be dismayed by the way senators like Bob Corker, Susan Collins and Ron Johnson appear to be backing away from their principled objections based on half-measures promised by President Trump and the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, that will not address its big flaws.
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While some Florida legislators are considering a number of far weaker half-measures, per the Miami Herald, the conservative media has already begun its headache-inducing habit of screaming about how the real issue is anything other than guns in the hopes they can distract people long enough to blunt any real progress.
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His selections — radical black intellectual Cornel West and hardcore climate activist Bill McKibben, Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Keith Ellison, Muslim rights spokesperson James Zogby, and Native American tribal rights leader Deborah Parker — are primarily progressive firebrands known, like Sanders, for rejecting half-measures and seeking to exert pressure from outside the mainstream.
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"The virus is finally here in our community and half-steps and half-measures from federal agencies with the power to do more are of little comfort to families throughout our state," Ms. Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement, which also called the $720,000 of $16 million of new funding allocated to Florida "paltry."
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But Cloudflare and GoDaddy's inaction, as well as Reddit's half-measures, indicate where the moral compasses of large internet companies are currently pointing: Their idea of a free and open internet is held in higher regard than the idea that hacking victims have a right to not have their stolen nude photos widely disseminated online.
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"We Democrats are not going to settle for half-measures so Republicans can feel better and try to push the issue of gun violence off to the side," Schumer said, adding that his caucus "will seek to require" that any such bill must be accompanied by a vote on the House universal background checks bill.
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Even though the president's own foreign policy doctrine of non-intervention in Middle Eastern civil wars clearly advises against just such an intervention, he nonetheless took various half-measures that, collectively, have deeply involved the United States in Syria, helped inspire counter-escalations by Iran and Russia, and threaten to involve the US further in the Syrian civil war.
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And for a time, it even seemed they might resist the coronavirus, too: various half-measures — like locker rooms closed to the news media, arenas closed to fans, games transferred to neutral sites in areas less affected by the virus — were pursued in recent days as solutions to keep athletes safe and sports afloat through the pandemic.
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Ben SasseBenjamin (Ben) Eric SasseThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump lauds tariffs on China while backtracking from more To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE (R-Neb.), who added that North Korea "should know that half-measures and spin about its nuclear program" will not result in a deal.
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" "President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE and Senate Republicans have failed to act on the issue of gun violence, bowing repeatedly to the NRA and the hard right by choosing inaction or half-measures over real, meaningful legislation.
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Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOvernight Health Care: Trump officials making changes to drug pricing proposal | House panel advances flavored e-cig ban | Senators press FDA tobacco chief on vaping ban Speaker Pelosi, it's time to throw American innovators a lifeline Why Americans must tune in to the Trump impeachment hearings MORE isn't putting much stock into recent White House criticism of her drug pricing bill, Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerOvernight Health Care: Trump officials making changes to drug pricing proposal | House panel advances flavored e-cig ban | Senators press FDA tobacco chief on vaping ban Chad Wolf becomes acting DHS secretary Schumer blocks drug pricing measure during Senate fight, seeking larger action MORE doesn't believe in half-measures on drug pricing, and senators aren't happy with the administration's delay on the e-cigarette flavor ban.
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