Sentence examples for cursory effort from inspiring English sources

Half the group fell asleep while the other made a cursory effort to clean up.

Records from the hearings show that only a cursory effort was made to reach them.

Even the normally stodgy Xinhua News Agency has weighed in.The government has made a cursory effort to make the internet more accessible during the games.

Contrast this with the cursory effort of the West Indies squad on the Nursery Ground at Lord's before play on Monday.

It was a cursory effort, consisting of two boats being lowered, each manned by one officer and four men who merely rowed around the dock for a few minutes before returning to the ship.

Consequently, only cursory efforts are made to texturally characterize limestones and dolomites.

The first sign of this strategy came in September 2013 when four Shabab gunmen attacked Nairobi's Westgate mall and made cursory efforts to separate shoppers according to religion.

American officials, making only cursory efforts to hide their relief at the departure of Binyamin Netanyahu, note that America is no longer forced to be "an active intermediary, because the parties were talking past each other".

"Support our troops, bring 'em home to play / bisexual, straight or gay! / masturbate to stop this war / 'cuz we don't want no killin' no more!" The site itself doesn't appear to have been updated in some time, and despite admittedly cursory efforts, its operators couldn't be reached.

And, perhaps somewhat disingenuously, its report only gives a cursory nod to extensive efforts by DfID – and the UK government more generally – to stamp out corruption at the global level.

Winter attaches an author's note, but unlike Corey's substantial effort, it feels cursory.