Sentence examples for perfunctory challenge from inspiring English sources

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Though I do not share hubby's love of all things public radio, I held on to the hope that I could reasonably expect to see at least a perfunctory challenge to tired old gender roles.

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Their silence compounded with the fact that none of the three has managed to make a serious case for why they should be president—suggests what everyone has long assumed: that Clinton will face only a perfunctory primary challenge, from politicians looking for a boost in book sales, or a possible Cabinet appointment.

This fine cast (which includes the great Glynn Turman as Marty's dad) deserves better than the perfunctory problems and challenges they're saddled with here.

Kundiawa opens its Family Support Centre Little did Sister OpaTugo know that her perfunctory remarks to a challenge after a two-day workshop on child protection in August of 2007 would trigger a chain of events...    Email this article.

15 October 2009 Little did Sister OpaTugo know that her perfunctory remarks to a challenge after a two-day workshop on child protection in August of 2007 would trigger a chain of events leading to the establishment of a Family Support Centre (FSC) at the Kundiawa Hospital.

Her creationist views are never seriously challenged – except for one perfunctory complaint that she is going against "centuries of Darwinism" – and she is galvanised when, with her colleague and lover Dr Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), she discovers ancient cave paintings in the Isle of Skye showing humans worshipping a specific star-constellation.

They do nothing to attack Thrasymachus' initial debunking theses about the effects of just behaviour and the uses of moral language; in fact these are never really challenged, unless you count a strikingly perfunctory appendix to the argument in Book X 612a-3ee).

He challenged his audiences with compositions that suggested that theatrical performance and perfunctory details of the every day could be experienced as music.

But there was no chance to challenge him as to why they had failed, because after a couple of perfunctory exchanges with the moderator, he was out the door.

The band answered the challenge; the one weak link early on was the leader himself, whose singing was perfunctory as he tried to conduct and be cute as well as emote.

An unbylined Sept. 17 WND article tackles the allegation -- but only in the most perfunctory way WND could apparently think of, and only after first allowing Taitz to claim without challenge that "doubters should be questioning Obama, not her" and dismissing all criticism of Taitz as merely "various accusations" and "vicious rumors" that "have been cluttering the blogosphere in recent weeks".

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