(1) The reason for this were cursorily highlighted and suggestions for speedier trials proffered.
(2) Merah, for instance, had recently travelled to Pakistan and been trained, albeit cursorily, by a jihadi group allied with al-Qaida.
(3) Mangold and Fuchs (1986) have pointed out that the topic "Screaming Babies" has only been cursorily addressed in the German literature.
(4) Beginning in 1970 and continuing through 1990, the main literature was cursorily scanned.
(5) It was implied that the value of family information collected by inquiring and cursorily examining the parents is limited for differential diagnosis between skeletal and functional class III malocclusion and it may mislead the prediction of treatment result in orthodontic clinic.
(6) Water desorption results were compared with various proprietary materials which were also characterized with respect to Tg and, cursorily, to composition.
(7) First the various kinds of monism and pluralism that litter the scientific and philosophical literature are examined cursorily.
(8) It is important to set great store by the physical examination (which is often performed cursorily before the patients are referred to curative inpatients treatment), including a neurological examination and in some cases also EMG, special radiographs, myelography, CT, magnetic resonance imaging and the like to gather more information on the real cause of the low back pain.
Cursory
Definition:
(a.) Running about; not stationary.
(a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of these are accomplished simultaneously with a cursory survey to identify immediately life-threatening injuries and to prevent permanent disability.
(2) It is clear that any investigations they have conducted have been cursory.
(3) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
(4) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
(5) A cursory trawl reveals a long list of employment tribunals and strikes by low-paid workers in these outsourcing companies.
(6) Further, it only takes a cursory look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website to see that they are embroiled in a bitter and ongoing feud with Isis.
(7) The statements to this point only give a cursory review of the beginning (20 years) of the kinetic approach to the classification of lipoproteins and subsystems which are involved in their synthesis and metabolism.
(8) Morphological differences are primarily related to locomotor patterns as reflected in the degree of cursoriality displayed by bovids in different habitats.
(9) In the past, says Hogan, they tended only to give them a cursory glance.
(10) Writer Feargus O’Sullivan thinks of the presence of artists and creative workers as adding a “cursory sheen to a place’s transformation”, describing the process as “ artwashing ”.
(11) But it was as much their mistakes as those of Moyes that led them to Tuesday's cursory announcement .
(12) In this chapter, while we review in a cursory way the older findings with glucocorticoid hormones, we concentrate on the newer developments which suggest that leukocyte- and pituitary-derived ACTH and endorphins perform regulatory functions within and between the immune system and the pituitary-adrenocortical axis.
(13) Yes, the ad included such issues as agriculture and the environment, but only the most cursory mention.
(14) The UK's cursory submission to the commission is in fact based on a February 2012 report titled Creating the Conditions for Integration .
(15) If anyone doubts that people do not care enough about wildlife then a cursory look at the emails, tweets, letters and calls that have flooded into the RSPB in recent days will open their eyes.
(16) The text which has to be easily understandable, mentions: a cursory description of the clinical signs of the different decompression accidents the measures which have to be taken in each case, depending on: the moment of the emergency: after or during decompression, the presence of an insufficient decompression, or a "blow-up".
(17) We didn’t actually fully investigate them, we just made a cursory visit and went back to all of our keyboards looking at everybody’s emails and text messages.
(18) I don’t think that a cursory look at the budget is enough for people to understand what we’re really getting at.
(19) According to one survey, just 4% of women do this, and a cursory glance around the globe hints it is not exactly common practice elsewhere.
(20) This is only a cursory view of the complexities one encounters when attempting to understand women, how and why they behave the way they do, how they respond to the health care system, what some of their influences are, and what we must all do together to help them help themselves and us, to provide them with a longer, more productive, rewarding and healthy life span.