Sentence examples similar to a quick tick-box exercise from inspiring English sources

"To be honest it was a bit of a tick-box exercise and I think some realpolitik came into it.

But a Department of Health spokeswoman said: "Setting up a register would be a bureaucratic tick-box exercise.

So, in other words, it's a warning shot to the Commission not to try to make the review a pantomime, tick-box exercise.

"E-learning has got a bad name because it's seen as a tick-box exercise," he said.

The committee says many consultants think an annual review of their job plans is a "tick-box exercise".

From the outside, it's easy to view the entire thing as a tick-box exercise designed to spin a suboptimal situation into something earnestly shiny.

This is largely a tick-box exercise considering questions such as, does the property have a gas safety certificate?

Diversity in literature shouldn't be a tick-box exercise.

The assessment is a tick-box exercise, with points scored depending on the patient's replies.

Yet after a 15-minute tick-box exercise, she lost her benefits.

Gove said Ofqual must ensure university ownership of the exams was "real and committed, not a tick-box exercise".