Sentence examples for perfunctory ones from inspiring English sources

Perfunctory ones at that.

The states that have no statewide mandatory codes, or perfunctory ones, include Alabama, Arizona, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, according to the Building Codes Assistance Project, a research group that supports codes.

Lawyers and injured workers say many of the examiners still do brief, perfunctory, one-sided exams.

The film would benefit from a governmental comment, even a perfunctory one, and from some outside experts.

All of which background is pretty irrelevant, as from listening to 205 of them I have realised there are actually just two types of anthem: the perfunctory, lifeless ones, and those that make the effort to be different.

"Perfunctory 'I love yous' do not suffice.

At other times it has a busy and perfunctory tone, one that might have been alleviated by a more streamlined screenplay and a sharper sense of why any of this should matter.

On Twitter, Mr. Trump made only one perfunctory mention each of Ms. Chao and Mr. Price, the man who would most likely be tasked with carrying out some of the president-elect's most important campaign promises.

and engages in a relatively perfunctory affair with one passenger.

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

"We had one perfunctory meeting with E.P.A., basically going over the status of the process," said Stephen D. Ramsey, G.E.'s vice president for environmental programs.