Sentence examples for perfunctory job from inspiring English sources

Last year, a total of $165 million from all sources was devoted to AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa, compared with the $2.5 billion estimated as necessary to do even a perfunctory job.

"Just having someone to really tell your story at the time of sentencing and not doing just a perfunctory job does seem to help," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, in Washington, which opposes execution.

The professional actors, Sonali Kulkarni and Ajay Gehi, do an utterly perfunctory job, and a number of sequences, like when a sweeping row of tribal women emerge from the horizon to rescue the city girl who has fainted in the middle of the desert, seem forced into an otherwise spare film.

Amid sleepless nights, a perfunctory job hunt and a short escape to Mexico, James shares a care schedule for his mother, who, by the end of the film, can hardly walk without support.

What has changed, though, and changed forever, is getting labels to pay for these perfunctory bodge-jobs.

Though the exfoliation was perfunctory, the paint job was a tour de force -- no easy feat since I'd chosen a midnight plum hue, aptly called Forbidden.

Then there is the concern that officers assigned to the new task will have only perfunctory training for a job that requires a complex understanding of psychology and human behavior and excellent communication skills.

It wasn't a perfunctory question, but one about my health, job, faith, relationships and, eventually, my family.