With only cursory training with a baton and handgun, she was one of two officers assigned to cellblocks with as many as 500 felons.

The replacements were subsequently given cursory training between missions, but U.S. military historians contend that the inexperienced replacements dramatically decreased the usefulness of the company as a special forces unit.

He received cursory training in painting under Giacinto Campana and Giacomo Cavedone.

In fact many glider infantry units were simply converted from regular infantry units with only cursory training.

Hawke gave Montague only the most cursory training, knowing he would be accompanying Hawke himself on any dive.

After cursory training, Knipe's regiment was assigned to garrison duty at Harper's Ferry.

Most guardsmen have had only cursory training, and the army troops have largely been prepared for conventional military defense against external threats.

Then it will be up to you to give them cursory training.

He had only the same cursory training in first aid that all recruits went through, but he could doctor blisters, and that was the main call on his services.