Sentence examples for perfunctory debate from inspiring English sources
WITH only perfunctory debate, the Bush administration is pressuring a divided Iraqi government to approve a security agreement that could haunt Washington's relations with Baghdad for years to come.
Then some representatives gathered on the floor of the House to engage in perfunctory, time-killing debate, where Democrats and Republicans yielded time to one another so their squabbling would have a cordial veneer.
But Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, complained that the Senate was allowing the debt limit to rise in a perfunctory way, with little debate.
-- pass as usual, with little debate, with perfunctory media mention.
Unlike the Commons, where third reading has become a rather perfunctory ritual, the Lords can debate amendments at this stage, so there might be a last ditch attempt to cause trouble.
The opening debate this afternoon was perfunctory, with Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, the lone lawmaker to take to the floor on the issue.
Holt McDougal's The Americans offers a perfunctory couple of pages on the debate between elite groups of Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
My experience is that they often make vague, perfunctory, or, worse, misleading statements, which muddle the debate and waste valuable time.
Berg gives us little on the vital economic debates of the Progressive Era, and only a perfunctory comparison of Wilson's "New Freedom" and Teddy Roosevelt's "New Nationalism".
