Sentence examples for perfunctory attempts from inspiring English sources

Aug 7th 2008Living next to the bearRussia has made perfunctory attempts to justify the invasion.

Although there were a few perfunctory attempts in each show to remind us that we, the great public, are the ones who facilitated the high-level deceptions – with our failure to question unsustainable returns and our willing collusion in a too-good-to-be-true system as long as it gave us three bedrooms and an en-suite – none of them really hit home.

"Girl With a Pearl Earring" is an auspicious feature-directing debut by Mr. Webber in so many ways -- a groaning board of temptations for the eye and ear -- that you may almost forgive the film its lack of drama and the perfunctory attempts at characterization.

On the other hand, my perfunctory attempts to find new predictions, i.e., previously missed but now restored to being, genes by querying http://combrex.bu.edu/ failed - is there a way to do it, and should it not be provided simultaneously with the submission of a paper that talks about such genes?

Not even a perfunctory attempt is made to cut America's defence spending.

Wednesday's trip to Stamford Bridge could well exacerbate the crisis, if Keller's perfunctory attempt at a war cry is anything to go by.

Despite historic opposition, two mainstays of the Washington business lobby, the United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, made only a perfunctory attempt to influence the House vote, sending members letters of opposition but conceding the issue in the new House.

While the Las Vegas police would appear to have been almost lackadaisical in their approach to Tupac's murder (they made only a perfunctory attempt to question Tupac's cousins, who were riding in the car behind Knight's, for example), it is also true that in that group of witnesses and among their peers giving information to the police is taboo.

And Mr. Anderson's thesis suffers at times from overextending itself; a chapter near the end, with sections about KitchenAid and Lego, feels like a perfunctory attempt to give a more general-interest veneer to a book about entertainment and the news media.

He quickly gave up on his perfunctory attempt, after bouncing off the activist wall a couple of times, with the police trying to calm everything down.

Less successful are the drama's perfunctory and clumsy attempts to dramatize Shackleton's domestic situation.