Sentence examples for cursory question from inspiring English sources

Non-students are asked a cursory question about their intention to remain in Britain.

Many of them involved a single congressman making a statement about a constituent of his who was killed in this way, or asking a cursory question of the senior military official who happened to be testifying before the panel.

Seedco easily evaded the verification callers, who asked only cursory questions.

When Fastow and Skilling proposed the strategies that eventually destroyed the company, board members asked a few cursory questions, then signed off.

The lawyer said Judge Lake had spent only five hours on the task, posing cursory questions to jurors and taking them at their word that they would be fair despite evidence to the contrary.

In my case, I asked the hotel desk clerk if she had any suggestions, and 45 minutes later there was a "doctor on wheels" in the lobby, writing my prescription after a few cursory questions.

In May a human rights lawyer told Guardian Australia a group forcibly returned to Sri Lanka after it reached the Cocos Islands had their claims for refugee status ignored because they were only asked cursory questions including their names, where they came from and why they came.

"As a reporter, I get to go and ask the experts questions and really delve in deep, versus you you might ask a few cursory questions here and there".

There's a cursory few questions at the start when they politely ask about the film, but you know they're not going to put hardly any of it in.

"What's the biggest fish?" And so with the North Koreans, where once you've sat through the footballing platitudes, the temptation is to meet the cursory "any questions?" with the response: "Yes.

But once he was placed into custody at Camp Cropper, where about 100 detainees deemed to have the highest intelligence value are held, he received only one cursory arrival interrogation from military officers and was never again questioned by any other military or intelligence officers, according to Pentagon and intelligence officials.