Sentence examples for To cursory from inspiring English sources

Most contract employees are subjected only to cursory police checks.

He added, however, that judges are under pressure to get through 500 to 700 cases a year, sometimes leading to cursory decisions.

Torre listened to cursory descriptions of the recent memo today from reporters and surmised that the two incidents involving Clemens were "what caused this thing".

By 1960, however, people were using the term to describe a personal or collective disposition that ran too deep to be accessible to cursory introspection.

Mass expulsions based on ethnicity violate European Union law, Mr. Kushen said, and the failure of France to do individual assessments of each case — as opposed to cursory examinations of papers by the police — also violates European Union rules.

The guards were subject to cursory or nonexistent searches when they entered the premises, and they also brought in the cell phones for the inmates to use, even though correctional officers were forbidden to carry phones while working.

And then there's always the spine of the show to cling to, the cursory but largely satisfying Warhol retrospective that wends through the galleries, emphasizing painting while touching much too lightly on his innovations in sculpture and film.

She was flown to Arizona and subjected to a cursory interview by McCain aides Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, and then by McCain himself.

Meanwhile, written evidence of local, as opposed to standard, language has tended to be cursory and of shaky accuracy.

"This 'review,' however, was designed from the outset to be cursory in scope so as to rubber-stamp the E.& Y. auditors' work".

You're certainly more likely to die on the roads 2,000 times more likely, according to a cursory internet search.