cosmetic exercise

The review of the party last year was not supposed just to be a cosmetic exercise.

They insist the meeting is not just a cosmetic exercise.

It was said she wanted to play no part in a cosmetic exercise designed to put a happy face on the marriage.

However, this is a purely cosmetic exercise, for three reasons.

What amounts to a cosmetic exercise will almost certainly be approved.

It is not a cosmetic exercise, but a decisive factor in the political process.

Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry.

But others have criticised the change, arguing that it is largely a cosmetic exercise.

Many foreign commentators, however, described the lifting of martial law as a cosmetic exercise.

What they don't want is a cosmetic exercise.

This campaign was created as the group's corporate social responsibility strategy and not as a cosmetic exercise.

But I am not for adopting cosmetic exercises.

Does the Minister agree that that reform package was merely a cosmetic exercise?

Asked if the review was going to be a "cosmetic exercise" Mr Balls said no.

Doncaster's appointment had been widely anticipated and the interview process regarded as little more than a cosmetic exercise.

This is not a cosmetic exercise.

Bill of Rights dismissed as cosmetic exercise

The fact that key agencies with expertise, including ourselves, have not been approached leaves the impression that this is a cosmetic exercise.

We have had a very cosmetic exercise by Commissioner de Silguy.I would like to ask him several questions.

The endgame should not be some expedient concession or cosmetic exercise to garner votes next time around.

Instead it was a cosmetic exercise, rebranding public-service “standards” as ponderously enforceable “entitlements”.

Sather also interviewed Mark Messier, but there is good reason to believe that was largely a cosmetic exercise.

It is a cosmetic exercise, but it does show that the government acknowledges the inherent injustice of selecting children on religious grounds.

A cosmetic exercise for ministerial consumption?

A purely cosmetic exercise then?