(That they only perfunctorily entertain the prospect of winning is its own commentary on the party's morale).Fortunately for the prime minister, this faith in Mr Johnson is unlikely to be tested soon.
The government, it is true, perfunctorily met its manifesto promise for a free parliamentary vote on banning fox-hunting.
And, as Ms Bardach acknowledges but explores only perfunctorily, Cuban exile opinion is plural, and becoming more so.The book begins and ends with the case of Elian Gonzalez, the unfortunate six-year-old who survived shipwreck only to fall into the hands of the relatives from hell in Miami.
A sleepy Pakistani official reads passports in a leisurely way; the customs man searches bags perfunctorily and pesters travellers with offers to change money; porters fight over luggage; a policeman writes names in a big ledger.
The editorial in Britain's biggest-selling daily newspaper concentrated on lamenting the government's record and only perfunctorily declared a preference for its Conservative opponents.But as much as voters seem to share the Sun's grudging support for the Tories, who gather in Manchester for their conference on October 4th, they may also be put off by the ferocity of Labour's attacks on them.
The president-in-waiting greeted him, but perfunctorily.
The later years are treated perfunctorily, and a chapter called "The People" seems to have been included out of a sense of obligation.
Consequently, in most countries large expenditures on military items are often treated perfunctorily while the activities of civil servants receive inordinate amounts of attention.
He enriched immeasurably the simple stories that earlier fabulists had in general been content to tell perfunctorily, subordinating them to their narrowly didactic intention.
The realistic staging and the social evils touched upon, however perfunctorily and sentimentally, anticipated the later theatre of the Naturalists.
The son of an assimilated Jew who held only perfunctorily to the religious practices and social formalities of the Jewish community, Kafka was German both in language and culture.
