Sentence examples for a perfunctory exercise from inspiring English sources
Recently, US authorities fined energy services company Technip more than $300m for FCPA breaches, and criticised it for having a due diligence programme which the authorities considered only a "perfunctory exercise" and one that was not "adequate to detect, deter or prevent the payment of bribes by agents".
But he viewed it as a perfunctory exercise; he didn't have much hope for a reversal.
Zelalem, 17, must now await FIFA approval, but that is believed to be a perfunctory exercise.
And as I don't have a nostalgic bone in my body, watching stuff like the now-annual Star Wars offering feels more like a perfunctory exercise to keep up with pop culture than a joyous explosion of fandom.
Nor is taking the outcome of today's meeting back to Indigenous communities a simple perfunctory exercise in "this is your lot".
A reportedly formal announcement date of Tuesday now appears to be little more than a coming perfunctory exercise in rehashing.
And with Friedkin's slickly proficient but impersonal direction, the picture amounts to little more than an uninspired, almost perfunctory exercise in "big game" manipulations.
If clinicians 'tune out' and use checklists in a perfunctory manner, subtle and unexpected cues to the patient's condition may be missed.
Mr. Kramer gave it a perfunctory glance.
Ouellet wrote a perfunctory letter.
