Sentence examples for cursory inquiry from inspiring English sources

He criticised the intelligence and security committee for conducting an apparently cursory inquiry, saying that its decision to go "into brief private session, only to emerge blinking into the daylight with protestations of apparent fealty towards the security services is a very poor substitute for grown-up scrutiny.

He is a graduate student in poetry at the New School in New York, a fact that any cursory inquiry by American Home's lawyers could have detected.

According to the N.F.L.'s investigation, Loomis and Payton made only cursory inquiries about the bounty program, and neither took any action to stop it.

Times editors said that when the first Enquirer story appeared and they could not verify it after fairly cursory inquiries, they left it alone.

Provide some cursory research about the writer of the article.

One shortcoming in the Wellcome guidelines, contends microbial geneticist Herbert Arst of Imperial College in London, is their lack of strong provisions for protecting whistleblowers and ensuring that universities don't conduct cursory "whitewash inquiries" of misconduct allegations.

In 1990, after the family raised that concern, Hogan-Howe was asked by a police officer whether he had anything to "add to the inquiry", but he only ever gave cursory details of his duties in a telephone conversation in May 1990.

However, any reasonable person would have ruled out such a possibility after a cursory review of the facts, let alone a months-long public inquiry.