Sentence examples for perfunctory investigation from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, he said, they continued to press authorities for more than a perfunctory investigation.

A perfunctory investigation of the original murder took place the following year at the request of the governor, and it concluded that the Chinese were the guilty parties.

A perfunctory investigation soon after the FBI raid on the compound, which left 80 people dead by gunshot or fire, was ignored.

The doctor tells her that the Centers for Disease Control conducted a perfunctory investigation that he believes was intended to dismiss the ailment.

But while the Lee case was at its height, his lawyers charged that their client was being unfairly treated because he was jailed under harsh conditions awaiting trial while John Deutch had gone unscathed after a perfunctory investigation for doing...

The news that the center's owners were the wives of two top state officials and a businessman with close links to Gov. Eduardo Bours added to fears of a perfunctory investigation and stoked anger among working-class Mexicans that a program for their children was at bottom another subsidy for the wealthy.

The reputation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former human rights lawyer, was dealt another blow when an international advisory panel on human rights resigned, accusing the government of carrying out perfunctory investigations into alleged atrocities.

A perfunctory internal investigation swiftly fingered Dreyfus, the only Jewish trainee officer on the General Staff.

After a perfunctory military investigation, Haditha was brushed aside, but once the details were disclosed, the killings became an ugly symbol of a difficult, demoralizing war.

In another Sophia Walker comment, Mr. Eggler wrote, "This entire affair is nothing more than election year scandal-mongering, all of which will fade away after the taxpayers foot the bill for a costly, perfunctory and pointless investigation that will find no significant wrongdoing on Silver's part".

"While the loss of Michael Brown and Eric Garner has received intense media coverage and perfunctory federal government investigations, the economic injustice unleashed upon the millions of people residing in Russia, Ukraine and the former Soviet Union by misguided Western policies has met limited recognition," he wrote at the time.