Thousands of factories in those countries will no doubt continue to be reviewed through the perfunctory "check the box" audits.
Many times, consumer advocates say, the investigation translates to a perfunctory check of its records.
Guards at shopping centres like Westgate only ever performed perfunctory checks on visitors.
The Arizona Corrections Department, Ms. Hamm said, has run perfunctory checks on visitors for years.
There were 10 in all — 9 for the parade, plus 1 spare — and Tharakan gave them a perfunctory exam; he was mostly checking for signs of musth, a hormonal condition that sexually mature males go through for two or three months a year.
The startup's name was essentially dragged through the mud this week by both sides: TfL questioned whether it was an effective way of checking people out, and concluding it an example of how Uber is too perfunctory in its safety checks.
In West Jerusalem, normally bustling during the first days of this Sukkot holiday week, malls and shopping districts were nearly deserted today, and often-perfunctory security checks at movie theaters and department stories were carried out with deadly seriousness.
Dr. Harrington said that many nursing homes did background checks in a perfunctory way, and that some did not check people who applied for housekeeping, food service or laundry jobs.
I didn't want any of the encounters to feel perfunctory or predetermined, like little boxes being checked on his roster of goodbyes.
Officers, sometimes hired with only the most perfunctory of background examinations — as Kansas officials said was the case with Mr. Sullivan — and frequently without even having their fingerprints checked, often end up in new trouble, according to a review of court documents, personnel records and interviews with former colleagues and other law enforcement officials.
