Sentence examples for cursory statements from inspiring English sources

But it quickly evaporated when the two negotiators appeared separately, and with cursory statements, after the meeting at Lancaster House, an 18th-century mansion in central London that is often used for diplomatic talks.

"Slavery, in fact, is hardly acknowledged in the letters, except in cursory statements about acquaintances being sold or having new masters".

Perhaps the fact they have not yet tried to explain their approach to this saga beyond a cursory statement is also simple.

Miliband, 47, whose parents were refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, issued a cursory statement Saturday night within minutes of di Canio's appointment, announcing he was quitting his $190,000-a-year post on the club's board.

This delay, and the lack of operational details contained in a cursory statement, suggests that the group's senior leadership in Syria or Iraq were unaware of the strike before it occurred.

Too often they seem to be getting only cursory instruction.

"Defendants have provided Moses with nothing more than a single incomplete, cursory, wholly insufficient statement" that "contained numerous inaccuracies and was in material respects false and misleading," Mr. Allen's complaint said.

Gorbachev paid only cursory attention to the economy until late 1989.

We excluded responses of participants without prior awareness from our analysis because our informational statement was cursory.

Jonathan Harris, director of mortgage broker Anderson Harris, says that under the old rules the borrower declared their outgoings and the lender took a cursory look at their bank statements (typically you need to provide your last three months' worth).

And yet even a cursory attempt at researching their statements brings up condemnations and attempts to start anti-terrorism campaigns from hundreds of scholars here, here, and here.