Sentence examples for A pro forma exercise from inspiring English sources

"It was largely a pro forma exercise," Cheadle says.

Such requests are something of a pro forma exercise for US presidents.

"It's often a pro forma exercise rather than an attempt to grapple with the tricky issues in the case".

"It's almost a pro forma exercise," said Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.

Raising the debt limit has been traditionally a pro forma exercise by Congress (albeit accompanied by pious declarations about the need to cut government spending).

Indeed, the "assumptions and risks" section of virtually all strategic plan templates is generally treated as a pro forma exercise rather than an occasion to go deep.

Normally, this would be a pro-forma exercise, but Labrador, Huelskamp, and a small band of colleagues had another idea.

This is the worst kind of Westminster pro forma exercise, in which parties sign up to inquiries whose findings they know they are unlikely to approve, come the day of action.Sir Christopher Kelly is entitled to be annoyed that the parties have continued to defend positions which are purely self-interested.

The other companies use a pro forma number.

For him, this was not a pro forma, perfunctory process: Those meetings were much more than "a juridical exercise in naming all the risks as quickly as possible, like the voiceover in an ad for a new pharmaceutical".

Revenue rose to $713.5 million from a pro forma $644.7 million a year earlier.