Sentence examples for a perfunctory process from inspiring English sources
Calpers has shaken up what traditionally had been a perfunctory process of electing corporate directors by withholding votes for a variety of reasons.
If I'd ever been interested in food at all, a fast-forward culture of cheap drink and bad speed soon rendered eating a perfunctory process.
As a sign of this bill's unpopularity, a late-night vote allowing the bill to be heard right out of committee saw four Republicans saying no a rare note of dissent in what's usually a perfunctory process.
Accountability can be difficult to connect to this annual privilege review as it is frequently a perfunctory process and is rarely linked to performance [ 21].
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".
From the moment prosecutors set the charge, usually a few hours to a few days after arrest, these kids are thrown into a process devoid of any substantive examination of their lives or the circumstances that brought them to the justice system, a process that typically ends with a perfunctory guilty plea and a lengthy prison sentence.
However, this process seems to occur only in a perfunctory manner by considering only the most obvious pathway, not necessarily at the most important time: before a product is introduced into commerce (e.g., nanoparticles).
Some, however, are going beyond staking a perfunctory presence on the Internet to simplify and speed up the sales process.
Until the arraignment process and purpose are redefined to require more than a perfunctory inquiry into the validity of the charges and the background of the accused, the results bemoaned by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will continue to the detriment of all concerned.
Ouellet wrote a perfunctory letter.
