Sentence examples for cursory that from inspiring English sources

The tests they described were so cursory that someone could probably have passed them without knowing which end of the key to stick in the ignition.

Federal regulators were also slow to react, and when they finally stepped in, their initial effort in 2009 was so cursory that they closed the inquiry before Takata provided all of the relevant documents.

But the treatment of Gauguin's complex life is so cursory that no real feel for the man or his artistic torments and triumphs comes through; it's merely another generic rendition of the ever-popular tortured artist effect.

Instead, "Wrong About Japan" turns out to be a thoroughly cursory travelogue that feels as though it had been written on a tight deadline for an airline magazine.

In a statement submitted to the Ways and Means Committee, the Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Hospitals called the figures on charitable care a "cursory" analysis that missed crucial differences with commercial hospitals.

Only the accused killers of the minister have been convicted by the Palestinians so far, in a cursory trial that yielded sentences of one to 18 years.

Rather, they consist of cursory explanations that seem designed more as a nod to colleagues who already know the subject than as a pedagogical guide to the notional "mathematically inclined reader".

Now the agency, part of the Health and Human Services Department, is facing tough scrutiny from Congress and the threat of reform legislation, with some lawmakers accusing it of cursory evaluations that often get the science wrong and ignore independent studies and community complaints.

Rone, who had taken the fight on short notice to earn the money to pay his way to his mother's funeral, was cleared after a cursory exam that skipped over many required items.

The inquiry is examining why the officers did not appear to make even cursory checks that would have identified the suspect as a violent serial sex offender who had been in prison for rape.

Bankers at Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Scotland had been falling over themselves to lend to Kallakis, carrying out only cursory checks that failed to reveal he was a serial conman, not the extravagant Mayfair property baron he was purporting to be.