But we will not support the pathetic, half-baked attempt that the Government so proudly proclaims as its solution. |
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The only thing wrong with P-Y's current plans is that he's struggling with half-baked ideas for content, like Ministry of Sound events. |
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I mean, here I was with an escaped convict, heading down the stairs of a questionable business with a half-baked plan developing in my mind. |
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Joking aside, The Lizzie McGuire Movie may sound predictable and half-baked, but it is a surprisingly good film. |
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Last Days, by comparison, is simply small, plumbing the shallow depths of half-baked notions about celebrity and art and depression. |
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Think something all the way through rather than going with a stupid, knee-jerk reaction based on some half-baked beliefs. |
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Compare then the words of Franz Kafka and William Faulkner to the half-baked notions of the end of history and the clash of civilizations. |
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The one completely half-baked notion I had at the end was that Barry Egan was Popeye. |
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Daena may be a half-baked character, but she isn't the film's weakest link. |
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As a result, Yosemite sounds like a half-baked children's album for weary adults. |
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Those who would mistake the storm for a lame gimmick or a half-baked attempt at breaching the fourth wall are missing the point. |
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After more than four years of talking about schemes, at last we have a proposal which, frankly, I feel is inadequate and half-baked. |
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I jotted down a bunch of things that have been bouncing around my head regarding social software, some half-baked, some fully baked. |
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Without it I had cobbled together a half-baked credo of chippy self-sufficiency and an irritating need to be recognised. |
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It would be invidious to undertake a half-baked presentation and evidence and half-baked cross examination. |
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And for three or four years they have sat and listened to lecturers propounding these half-baked ideas. |
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The moments of brilliance and detached profundities are engulfed by too many false starts and half-baked ideas. |
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Policies like this cooked up in downtown Ottawa office towers end up looking only half-baked on the ground in northern Saskatchewan. |
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Real disarmament, not a half-baked compromised inspection program, is and must be the goal of the government and the United Nations. |
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The whole system is half-baked, which is why I abstained from voting on this report. |
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Now the government is responding, but it is responding with a typical Liberal half-baked measure. |
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You know they do not regard Europe as an abstract ideal or a half-baked fantasy but as an historical necessity. |
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What we now see is a half-baked, politically contrived operation, pursuing largely French objectives, with the EU playing catch-up. |
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That is why we describe the tax measures in this budget as half-baked tax breaks. |
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Even assuming that only nice and honest people copy this material, I don't want a zillion half-baked copies floating out there. |
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Bake-off products are bread and bakery products, either half-baked or frozen, which require a brief final stage of baking or heating. |
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Let these half-baked, unsupported remarks carry the conversation a few more versts. |
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An election is all about putting your most mouth-watering political wares in the shop window, and discarding those half-baked ideas that will crumble under election pressure. |
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Some of the features are really quite stellar, while others seem half-baked. |
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And yet the entire purpose of the exercise would remain lost in the half-baked intellectual stringing together of ten syllabled words. |
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Suddenly the inspiration dawned on me and I told them some half-baked excuse about job cuts and being given a Free Transfer to Millhampton. |
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It is full of those little moments of impotency, existentialism and half-baked philosophical epiphanies that happen to us all. |
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What advice do you expect to get from a xenophobic Cold War warrior dripping in petty prejudices and half-baked homilies? |
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Then there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash hits. |
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But the anti-Stalinism competes with half-baked fantasies about a better tomorrow. |
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Ultimately, this is a Christmas of no-bake cookies, half-baked theology, and pre-packaged Christmas stories. |
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The songs return and gone is the half-baked amalgamation of in-jokes and dubwise meanderings. |
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Can you blame the Senate blocking his half-baked attempts at policy formulation? |
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It seemed like everyone wanted to give you their opinions, no matter how half-baked and uninformed. |
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He now appears to be rolling in dough with a half-baked plan, trying to build a champion in a New York minute. |
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In some cases, works that were originally conceived as part of a series appeared in bits and dribbles, which frequently made for a half-baked presentation. |
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Under such circumstances, the rural population needs the reassurance of a fully staffed and professional police force, not a half-baked proposal to use the retired. |
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Is it just the ego's yearning for self-gratification that makes a person cling to the half-baked notion that every single human being is a unique individual? |
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Even the half-baked economists at the IMF should know that holding back government spending in a contracting economy is like turning off the engines on an aeroplane in stall. |
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It's a bad idea to charge in half-baked, ride a motorcycle half-cut, or take hard drugs half-heartedly. |
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We have seen a myriad of problems with some of the half-baked schemes that the government has come up with. |
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I am aware that this is a very tricky business and that we must prevent any half-baked stories from getting into the papers. |
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It threw together a half-baked measure without consulting any of the provinces or a single industry. |
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The Turfers are freakish, passionate, half-baked, dignified, defiant, rude, anarchistic, but they are not Republicans. |
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I stand here and say we want it, but we do not want it half-baked. |
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If a piece of writing turns out to be an indigestible half-baked mess, those on the receiving end are usually the ones to surfer. |
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Google so far has floundered in the living room, with a half-baked product called Google TV that was a total flop. |
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He's way better than all the other half-baked shamateurs who crop up in the canvas chairs during Davis Cup ties, but he's not going to win a major and it's not his fault. |
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Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics. |
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All we had to sell were some misshapen muffins and half-baked brownies. |
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I find that the general rules of debate are chucked out the nearest window, and replaced by a mixture of anger, hyperbole, half-baked legal discussion, and labelling of one side by the other. |
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However, I sincerely doubt that the Community institutions, swollen as they are with fine-sounding but half-baked principles, are mature enough to deal with the reality. |
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If the agreements are properly tested against the European rules, a proper agreement can be concluded rather than this half-baked effort that jeopardises legal security. |
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When the casserole is half-baked, take it out and sprinkle the grated cheese on top. |
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You can't have half-baked products and half-baked plans. |
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The report was billed as proposals and an action programme for transport until 2010, but I believe strongly that it contains little more than ill-researched, half-baked ideas. |
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I felt it was important to make this clear, because it is not the first time that Parliament has made such half-baked demands in one of its reports. |
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Jamie, on the other hand, is raddled and vague, a blundering hooray with half-baked ideas of grandeur. |
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When the government makes announcements on economic investments-primarily in the budget and on other occasions-it should make sure that it has considered every possibility and not present half-baked initiatives. |
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This stuff here is only half-baked measures. |
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This naturally produced an utter shambles, which prompted a majority of the committee members, quite rightly, to reject this half-baked document. |
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Next, from April, come half-baked new council tax rules, which will force town halls to chase poor families for tiny sums, just as under the poll tax. |
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It reads like a practical joke, and a half-baked one at that. |
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The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together. |
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Thanks to Mr DeLay et al, it became a giant giveaway to the old. The Big Not-Too-EasyMany of Mr Bush's ideas for turning New Orleans into a model for conservative urban reconstruction look half-baked. |
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The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market. |
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These were gross overreactions, born of a peculiarly American jitteriness, evident in the shutdown of the entire Los Angeles school system on Tuesday because of a half-baked threat. |
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Until, of course, the final second before it's due, when you'll have to throw together a half-baked report. |
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Having suddenly transformed from benchwarmer to inspirational figure, Lin takes every newspaper in America and turns each one into a repository of silly puns and half-baked ramblings about racial perceptions in sports. |
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The promising situations fizzle out in half-baked jokes. |
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