A cursory survey of available material indicates a high rate of illegitimate births occurring to parents who have a close consanguineous relationship.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

With cursory examination, any serious brass player would be able to recognise that these instruments are wholly inferior to real Besson instruments, and also of much poorer quality than even the cheapest of student instruments produced by reputable manufacturers.

The first question has been settled by the observation that the few, cursory encounters by explorers before him were barely noticed at the time and contributed nothing to the future development and history of the land which would become Brazil, the sole Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas.

And those actions should have left a trail of physical archaeological evidence across the greater American Southwest, discovery of which would undeniably prove the existence of foreigners in New Mexico in antiquity with a demonstrably ancient Hebrew material culture ..." and states that " There are no pre-Columbian ancient Hebrew settlements, no sites containing the everyday detritus of a band of ancient Hebrews, nothing that even a cursory knowledge of how the archaeological record forms would demand there would be.

This was based on a report from the ASA's Committee on the Status of Homosexuals in Sociology, which summarised Cameron's inflammatory statements and commented, " It does not take great analytical abilities to suspect from even a cursory review of Cameron's writings that his claims have almost nothing to do with social science and that social science is used only to cover over another agenda.

This was based on a report from the ASA's Committee on the Status of Homosexuals in Sociology, which summarised Cameron's inflammatory statements and commented, " It does not take great analytical abilities to suspect from even a cursory review of Cameron's writings that his claims have almost nothing to do with social science and that social science is used only to cover over another agenda.

The appearance of lounge subculture in the mid-1990s in the United States helped to enhance the revival and interest in the music, style, and performers of popular music prior to rock and roll, such as the Rat Pack and recording artists associated with exotica, although the latter has only a cursory connection with classic pop traditions of the past.

The cursory show of interest is significant because the USDA has spent a considerable amount of time and money trying to eradicate corn smut in the United States.

After cursory mapping of both sites he continued on in search of the last city of the Inca.

The physician led the horses to the stable after a cursory glance at the cringing slave.

While Edison oversaw cursory sound-cinema experiments after the success of The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) and other Edison Manufacturing Company productions, it was not until 1908 that he returned in earnest to the combined audiovisual concept that had first led him to enter the motion picture field.

Treating Revelation in his cursory fashion, he made use of an excerpt from the commentary of the North African Tichonius, which is preserved as a sort of argument at the beginning of the more extended work of the Spanish presbyter Beatus of Liébana.

Wells has argued against the authenticity of the Testimonium, stating that the passage is noticeably shorter and more cursory than such notices generally used by Josephus in the Antiquities, and that had it been authentic, it would have included more details and a longer introduction.

He had been commissioned by Damasus I in 382 to revise the Old Latin text of the four Gospels from the best Greek texts, and by the time of Damasus ' death in 384 he had thoroughly completed this task, together with a more cursory revision from the Greek Septuagint of the Old Latin text of the Psalms in the Roman Psalter which is now lost.

It has been suggested that Vasari was confusing this murder case with another one involving a " Domenico di Matteo " who was killed by an " Andreino " in 1448, but the archival record shows that this is a misreading: " A cursory examination reveals two things: first, that the name of the dead painter is not Domenico di Matteo, but Domenico di Marco ; and second, and much more crucially, that there is no mention of him having been killed by a painter named Andrea or Andreino.

The regulations, first proposed on August 11th, were rushed by the Bush administration through an abbreviated process in which more than 300, 000 comments from the public were reviewed in 2-3 weeks, and environmental impacts were analyzed in a short and cursory environmental assessment, rather than a fuller environmental impact statement.

As a senior professor at a leading graduate university, Hofstadter directed more than one hundred finished doctoral dissertations but gave his graduate students only cursory attention ; that academic latitude enabled them to find their own models of history.

Hundreds of thousands moved permanently to the West in the following months as more crossings were opened, and ties between long-divided communities were re-established as border controls became little more than a cursory formality.

This type of visual-field defect tends to be obvious to the person experiencing it but often evades early objective diagnosis, as it is more difficult to detect by cursory clinical examination than the classical or textbook bitemporal peripheral hemianopia and may even elude sophisticated electronic modes of visual-field assessment.

Though his diary recounts his many romantic exploits ( including those with his own wife ) he never shows much more than the most cursory remorse for his less savory actions.

15-17 ) because where Nicolaus stops, in the reign of Archelaus, the account of Josephus suddenly becomes more cursory.

This can be seen in a cursory analysis of US inflation and unemployment data 1953-92.

However, they also note that, between Luther ( 1500 ) and 1871 Prussia, the limited data available has meant that the period in question is regarded as a " black box " and that only " some cursory discussion and analysis " is possible.

Nevertheless, these peaks were included in their analysis anyway with Bell and McDiarmid questioning whether selection effects could account for the periodicity, but not including any analysis of this beyond cursory cross-survey comparisons in the discussion section of their paper.

Of the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey there remains a beautiful Perpendicular gateway ( common local knowledge, however, is that it was actually rebuilt out of the rubble of the original, and a little cursory examination of the patternation of the stonework will apparently divulge this ) and ruins of buildings such as the mainly Early English prior's house, the guest house and other fragments.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

He passed the cursory inspection, and was able board his flight at 7: 50.

If instead of simply generating random characters one restricts the generator to a meaningful vocabulary and conservatively following grammar rules, like using a context-free grammar, then a random document generated this way can even fool some humans ( at least on a cursory reading ) as shown in the experiments with SCIgen, snarXiv, and the Postmodernism Generator.

The most cursory glance at these articles discloses a unity of purpose, when taken in connection with the history of the times, which cannot fail to have an important bearing on any question of doubt concerning their true meaning.

However, a cursory glance at the Proto-Celtic lexicon reveals that * belatu-is reconstructible for Proto-Celtic with the meaning ‘ death ’ and that * kadro-is a reconstructible element meaning ‘ decorated .’ So the name Belatucadros may also be interpreted as a compound of two Gallic words descended from two Proto-Celtic elements * belatu-and * kadro-which together as a compound adjective would literally mean ‘ death-decorated .’ Indeed, this is hardly an original proposal for the meaning of the name of this god associated with Mars: MacCulloch as early as 1911 ( p135 ) glossed this god ’ s name as ‘ comely in slaughter ’.

Alone, the Welsh element dy can mean ‘ thy, thine ’ or rather ‘ your ’ ( singular ) but there is no gloss of this word meaning ‘ great ,’ as the most cursory glance at the Welsh dictionary proves.

There is no real story component to the game, aside from a cursory background story explaining the existence of two alliances of alien races at war, the Alliance of Free Stars and the Hierarchy of Battle Thralls.

In November, 1960, the other half of the equation was revealed by the Bell System Technical Journal: another article titled " Signaling Systems for Control of Telephone Switching " was published containing the frequencies used for the digits that were used for the actual routing codes With these two items of information, the phone system was at the disposal of anyone with a cursory knowledge of electronics.

“ The most cursory exploration had preceded the British decision to found a colony at the Swan River ; the most makeshift arrangements were to govern its initial establishment and the granting of land ; and the most sketchy surveys were to be made before the grants were actually occupied.

He wrote that a cursory look at the Nineteenth Edition " put me in mind of Mr. Kurtz's dying words in Heart of Darkness --' The horror!

His performance of church-related functions at both locations was erratic: at times conscientious and brilliant while at other times cursory and indulgent.

Once, in a letter to John Jay, Robert Morris spoke of an innocuous letter from " Timothy Jones " ( Deane ) and the " concealed beauties therein ," noting " the cursory examinations of a sea captain would never discover them, but transferred from his hand to the penetrating eye of a Jay, the diamonds stand confessed at once.

This is illustrated by even the most cursory glance at the philosophical movement of Embodiment.

Following cursory examinations in their cells at the Santa Clara County jail in San Jose, with a mob outside in the jail courtyard, both men were declared sane.

Even a cursory reading of the entry for engineering control theory shows that in artificial systems the reference signal is considered to be the external input to the ‘ plant ’, but in living systems as described here the reference signal is not an externally accessible input at all, but instead has its origin elsewhere within the system, from memory or from error output of higher-level control loops as described in the next section below.

In some ways, it is difficult to understand Kierkegaard fully without at least a cursory knowledge of his failed relationship to Regine.

He was me to anyone giving a cursory glance at the figures plodding round the track.

The band had the chops and a sound that could pass as similar to the metal of the day ( well, at least some of the time ), and they were at least as good as Skid Row, Warrant, Living Colour and Winger – who were all getting a lot of attention at the time – so that Alice in Chains would even get a cursory glance from the majors seemed inevitable.