Sentence examples for cosmetic exercise from inspiring English sources

This is not a cosmetic exercise.

Instead it was a cosmetic exercise, rebranding public-service "standards" as ponderously enforceable "entitlements".

Publishing data on what we plan to buy – whether it's tunnels, schools or computers – is far from a cosmetic exercise.

This can't be just be a cosmetic exercise – the board must act upon the recommendations of the review.

European stress-tests were merely a cosmetic exercise, set up in such a way that the banks could not fail.

Is what is being proposed a solution though, or merely a cosmetic exercise, designed to look enticing to voters, but in truth tilting at windmills?

It is demeaning to teachers to ask them to treat statistical data that they would dismiss out of hand from a GCSE coursework project as a true indicator of their performance, but the damage caused by these cosmetic exercises goes far beyond that.

Body modifications include cosmetic use, suntanning, piercing, tattooing, dieting, exercising, and cosmetic surgery among others.

(Karzai has now been declared the winner and Afghans will be spared the security risks of a cosmetic voting exercise).

Sponsors are likely to be cheered by Infantino's victory, particularly given the revenue-generating success he enjoyed at Uefa, but those who have kept an eye on Fifa will be keeping a close watch on whether the glossy reform process is little more than an expensive, cosmetic rebranding exercise.

It was a cosmetic excuse, an exercise in vanity for people who rejected the "lamestream" music of the time.