The decision, by Justice Louis B. York of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, said that although state and city procedures require an environmental study, "the Council's entire legislative review process was mostly perfunctory, only occasionally rising to the level of cursory, with the operative word being alacrity rather than analysis".
"My concern is that institutional level review will be too perfunctory or, even worse, that NSABB will leave dual-use matters in the hands of individual PIs," says Ed Hammond of the Oakland, California-based Sunshine Project, a bioweapons watchdog group.
Schiff's approach to the Bach seemed strict, almost didactic, with surprisingly little interest in the music's beauty; his presentation of the opening theme was brisk to the point of seeming perfunctory, and later variations that could have been virtuosically dazzling or searchingly expressive never quite reached those levels.
Such folks will not find much to groove on in "Race to Witch Mountain" — the threat of Earth's destruction or colonization is so perfunctory that it doesn't rise to the level of allegory — but it will amuse some of their young counterparts until summertime.
Although the PNSR is a government entity, historically its dealings with higher levels of government were limited and perfunctory.
Stage two, it turns out, puts the player in control of a mood slime-animated Statue of Liberty, the section presented as a perfunctory side-scrolling shooter; and the third and final level is an isometric, squad-based battle against the movie's painted antagonist, Vigo the Carpathian.
There is however sufficient information to indicate that it is unreasonable to expect that quality eye care could be available at the primary level, after only a single episode of perfunctory training.
I anticipated a glassy look and perfunctory smile, and so kept the story to myself.
Fifteen million stolen here, 36 million stolen there – at this point the numbers seem perfunctory.
Augustus C. Agate, the judge who signed the order five hours after the petition was filed, said through a spokesman that he conducted a "perfunctory" review of the first six pages of the filing, a level of scrutiny he believed was normal for the court's emergency section.
