Sentence examples for a perfunctory effort from inspiring English sources
And some of Mrs. Clinton's aides said Mr. Obama's campaign had made only a perfunctory effort to hire Clinton staff members; the Clinton campaign payroll is ending for most employees in less than a week.
By making at least a perfunctory effort to woo black communities, Trump may be able to persuade some white people that he's not racist at all.
Not even a perfunctory attempt is made to cut America's defence spending.
But The Times did not try to verify it, beyond a few perfunctory efforts, which I think was wrong.
The leaders of this movement barricade themselves with a few thousand hapless shopper-hostages in the great dome of the Metro-Centre and withstand for two months the government's somewhat perfunctory efforts to unseat or outwait them.
He makes only the most perfunctory efforts to find people who knew Destry-Scholes and no effort at all to use the Internet or other resources to try to find more information.
Touré, Quinlan concluded, was "at fault in the limited and perfunctory efforts he made in relation to the water tablets; the checks he made in relation to those tablets were inadequate and fell some way below what it would be reasonable to expect of a professional footballer".
Perfunctory efforts were made to curb air pollution, but little enforcement of existing legislation was undertaken once the war began.
Many people inside the television industry are astonished that a cable network's highest-rated host, whose forceful personality and liberal advocacy had lifted MSNBC from irrelevance to competitiveness and profitability, would be ushered out the door with no fanfare, no promoted farewell show and only a perfunctory thanks for his efforts.
That's not a bad thing, but we would hope that their efforts turn out to be more than just a perfunctory stab at the problems.
