Sentence examples for for cursory from inspiring English sources

Some doctors were paid million-dollar sums for cursory reviews; legal staffs, rather than doctors, instructed technicians and recorded medical histories.

IPRA, frequently criticized for cursory investigations that have almost always cleared officers, is also under new leadership and has proved more willing recently to rule that police violated policy in shootings, particularly in cases involving officers firing into cars.

They break ground for the cursory architecture of Philip Guston's late work.

Currently, companies voluntarily send summary safety data to the F.D.A. for a cursory review.

Dr Gilman settled charges in exchange for a cursory penalty; Mr Martoma denies the charges and awaits trial.

Not long ago, her body would have been taken to a funeral home for a cursory attempt at identification, then buried in this town an hour north of the Mexico border under a sign reading "unknown female".

Almost absent is conflict, except for a cursory account of recessionary speed bumps, the loss of clients after the Bernie Madoff scandal and the frustration of designers denied entry into the collections.

MSNBC: "What Took Trump's Republican Critics So Long?" If you only have time for a cursory read, scanning the headlines and dipping in here and there offers a decent fix.

Except for two cursory appraisals by art specialists retained in the 1850's when the house was placed on the market, there is not one further word in the literature about the Black Paintings until the French art scholar Charles Yriarte described them, with accompanying engraved reproductions, in a book about Goya that he published in Paris in 1867.

Other concepts relevant to the evolution of the species are not mentioned in any grade, except for one cursory reference to dinosaurs in the sixth grade.

Finally, a business plan is a sales document: It aims to attract professional investors who may only have time for a cursory glance at each idea that crosses their desks.