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Usage for perfunctory


They think it little more than a perfunctory rite to enthrone French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. These non-Western emerging countries have plenty of reasons. Another European, let alone French, IMF chief to restore financial order messed up by ...

"Civil liberties" groups (read: ACLU) reacted with perfunctory anger. Surveillance and intelligence gathering on domestic threats is an absolute necessity. The terrorists in this country depend on civil liberties groups like the ACLU, an apparatus for ...

... (itself a strange term for an ecologically irreparable Bombay phenomenon) with Bandra East (home to an ever shrinking pool of mangroves) is a vertical strip of advertising, doubly dark for the perfunctory role it plays in 'eco-friendliness'. ...

The second group got a more perfunctory description. After the two groups had read about the popped delights that awaited them, some of those people would then get to eat the popcorn. Some of them would not. Most readers would have liked to be in the ...

... children on Ratigan's computer, a perfunctory, at best, examination of the material, a secret transfer of the priest to a convent, no subsequent action or notice when Ratigan attempted suicide last December, and no notification to the review board. ...


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