How To Use Enquiry In A Sentence

Ascetic structuralism was a major line of enquiry in the London-based structural movement.
The enquiry will be more in the nature of a public meeting than a formal hearing.
The enquiry recommended the building of a tunnel.
Judge Langdale is to preside over the official enquiry into the case.
For negative assurance, enquiry and analytical procedures will be required.

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These comments are not directly relevant to this enquiry.
Peter Roberts writing in 1981 put in a plea for more textbooks that deal with the processes of historical enquiry.
It may be more likely to arise following an enquiry into, for example, the identity of the aggressor in an unwitnessed fight; but it can arise even after an enquiry, aided by good experts, into, for example, the cause of the sinking of a ship.
That inability to distinguish between free enquiry and deliberate insult reminds me of those who wielded the blasphemy laws which were used to persecute freethinkers and rationalists in the middle ages.
I have ordered them not of chintz, but moreen, which is against your taste, and hardly according to my own; but the latter article proved on enquiry to be far the thriftier as well as the most comfortable; and therefore the best adapted for our purpose. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
In the Enquiry he called Catholics ‘devotees of superstition’ and Catholic liturgy ‘mummeries.’
The enquiry will be headed by Lord Jones, sometime editor of the 'Daily News'.
We were surprised at the speed of the response to our enquiry.
We were surprised at the speed of the response to our enquiry.
Patients kept in such conditions in the health service would be the cause of public outcry and an enquiry. The Prisons We Deserve
So early as 1768 Benjamin Franklin had published his Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Remarks and Examples Concerning the Same, and an Enquiry into its Uses and induced a Philadelphia typefounder to cut type for it, but this scheme was too extravagant to be adopted anywhere, or to have any appreciable influence upon spelling. Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster
Complaints from three patients in 1999 led to a full enquiry, resulting in his suspension and eventual dismissal.
Venture industrial investment, corporate finance advisory, enterprise financing, IPO recommendation, purchase and annex, policy enquiry.
The governor announced an enquiry into the events.
The purpose is one of scientific enquiry.
The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution.
Only once did the excitable youngster's tongue become tied, this when attempting to articulate the word ‘ambitions’, in the course of an enquiry into what he considers his to be.
A judicial enquiry was ordered, but witnesses were threatened and none would testify.
The social history of crime is a vibrant area of intellectual enquiry, which since the 1960s has generated a proliferation of monographs and essays on a diversity of issues.
The proceedings of the enquiry will take place in private.
In short, the traditionally separated out categories of science and religious enthusiasm were in the eighteenth century as mutually invasive as Newton's own scientific and prophetical modes of enquiry.
Local MPs are calling for a full independent enquiry into the way the police handled the affair.
The enquiry cleared him of any taint of suspicion/dishonesty.
The enquiry follows dissatisfaction expressed about the existing procedure for issuing a permit for the import of dangerous waste, with specific reference to the recent cupric arsenite issue. ANC Daily News Briefing
He called a meeting of senior and responsible people of the village to bring normalcy in the locality and after describing the incident as shameful, he assured the people of a magisterial enquiry.
An independent enquiry into the issuing of a permit for the import of cupric arsenite will soon commence. ANC Daily News Briefing
The enquiry was highly selective and used only to support pre-established positions.
The discourses of these enquiries overlapped, from popular newspapers through statistical surveys and scholarly works to official boards of enquiry.
Greenpeace will seek a judicial review if a full public enquiry is not held.
Equally, how is language pedagogy to be defined in relation to other areas of enquiry that impinge upon it?
Just as individual impressions are corrigible, the system as a whole is fallible, and thus fallibility is at the heart of what Hume in the first Enquiry calls “mitigated scepticism.” David Hume
I was grateful for his letter which hastened the course of the enquiry.
I said nothing about Israeli Courts But the proposed enquiry is NOT a court. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
The First Actresses, National Portrait Gallery - review The catalogue of the new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery opens with a dejected little enquiry into the origin of the term "actress", as though the author, Gill Perry, has some objection to the distinction in terms of gender between the male and female trouper. Evening Standard - Home
Judge Langdale is to preside over the official enquiry into the case.
A major enquiry is underway after the death of a union official.
The subjects on the curriculum encourage intellectual enquiry.
The enquiry was highly selective and used only to support pre-established positions.
The actual work was related to scientific observation, enquiry, recording as well as learning how to behave in a group.
I want to make an enquiry about train times.
However, the existence of representative government doesn't obviate the necessity of enquiry.
This is a genuine enquiry, not a sarky comment: in the general run of things, why would anything other than a huge RTA need more than, at most, 2 coppers, when presumably a bad smash is more in need of firemen and ambulances? Bad Vibrations And The Smell Of Benzine. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Edmund Burke, in his treatise A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756), described the sublime as an evocation of anxiety in the face of nature, an exhilarating but fraught recognition of its illimitable power over humankind. Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
Reader enquiry number 134 Downlighters Designed Architectural Lighting has launched a new range of 14 downlighters.
When the squad of police failed to do a spot check inside the cottage and satisfied themselves with a routine enquiry at the door followed by a look inside the coalhouse in the back yard, she became convinced that Mrs Hixon was right. The Fifth Rapunzel
The committee has the power to order an enquiry.
The purpose of the research is to put this area of enquiry on a sound experimental footing.
The loss of these collections will close a chapter in the book of human enquiry forever.
The constituting of enquiry commissions has become a common feature after each communal flare-up.
And it is observed, ” so far as enquiry is able to look back at this distance of time, ” that at his being a school-boy he was an early questionist, quietly inquisitive “why this was, and that was not, to be remembered? why this was granted, and that denied?” Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc
Even the police detective, who leads the enquiry into multiple murders on the property, is not immune to a touch of the heebie-jeebies.
The questions on both forms are broadly identical to those contained on the more traditional preliminary enquiry forms.
I want to make an enquiry about train times.
The enquiry investigated whether officers had behaved correctly.
The committee has the power to order an enquiry.
George says the Executive Council and Cabinet decide when to launch commissions of enquiry - and not mud-chucking political stirrers.
These "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective enquiry. The Acorn
That the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides, cannot be known, let the terms be ever so exactly defined, without a train of reasoning and enquiry. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
And therefore the first answer to their enquiry is a very sharp reproof of their hypocrisy, directed, not only to the people of the land, but to the priests, who had set up these fasts, and perhaps some of them were for keeping them up, to serve some purpose of their own. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Police have launched a murder enquiry.
The enquiry pointed the finger of blame at the driver of the crashed coach.
The actual work was related to scientific observation, enquiry, recording as well as learning how to behave in a group.
Patterns and Symmetry results from enquiry into the geometrical characteristics of regular-repeating patterns, and presents a selection of counterchange and other effects in a printed textile format.
By 1927, an employee of Tiffany & Co. was complaining that "no gem ever caused the mineralogist or archaeologist quite the heartache that jade has," although the complaint was prompted more by commercial frustration than academic enquiry. Nothing Gold Can Stay
She took the initiative in asking the board to conduct an enquiry.
(Dio Cassius, 56, 25, 5) and frequent expulsions of astrologers from Rome underlined the danger of any enquiry about the future of the government of the Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.
The questions on both forms are broadly identical to those contained on the more traditional preliminary enquiry forms.
The Tender shall comprise an offer to perform the Services supplied in the Enquiry Documents.
The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry.
Most questions on professional enquiry are procedural, and often arise because of a misconception of the process.
Was it relevant to his enquiry, or just a curious coincidence?
Patients kept in such conditions in the health service would be the cause of public outcry and an enquiry. The Prisons We Deserve
The committee has the power to order an enquiry.
Undaunted by the opaque mix of fact and fantasy surrounding the French noblesse and their chateaux, he has transposed to France the lines of enquiry pioneered in his acclaimed Life in the English Country House.
Within 24 hours of uploading his catalogue to the database he had received his first enquiry.
If my passion for finding the truth, if my enthusiasm for chasing up lines of enquiry came across to some people as giving an appearance of bias or pre-judgement then I regret that.
Jones looked an enquiry at His Highness, who nodded assent.
This summons to free enquiry, untrammelled by customary beliefs, was taken up by the Greek philosophers, and especially by Socrates.
The search engine will link results more closely to the region of the person making the enquiry. The Sun
The value of empirical research ultimately depends on the quality of conceptual analysis that defines the objects of enquiry.
Greenpeace will seek a judicial review if a full public enquiry is not held.
I am in receipt of your e-mail and response to my enquiry to Mr. Bob WILLIAM HOLDEN
He does this with a modesty and a delight in enquiry which has lost none of its adventure in thirty years.
This multi - screen enquiry allows you to list all linked warrants trading information the same underlying security.
We are hoping the enquiry will provide an explanation for the accident.
Those poor lads will now be on tenter hooks for the next 6months at least before the results of the enquiry are delivered. London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Methods of enquiry vary from subject to subject.
The police are pursuing a new line of enquiry / inquiry .
The official enquiry was a long-drawn-out process.
The publisher will require the client to complete an enquiry form soas to be satisfied as to the factual accuracy of the advertisement.
It is a battle in defence of reason and objectivity, the very basis of all scientific enquiry.
Consequently, some theory must precede empirical enquiry, and all factual investigation is theory-laden.
U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives is an important point of reference in assessing developments in this rapidly evolving field of critical enquiry.
The minister said she did not consider that a public enquiry would serve any useful purpose.
The enquiry heard this week that the crash was unavoidable.
Let us grant for the moment that individual choices and actions do reflect the moral bearing of a person, and that issues of morality can only be dealt with by spiritual, or deep self-enquiry.
Litigator London: I said nothing about Israeli Courts But the proposed enquiry is NOT acourt. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
A judicial enquiry was ordered, but witnesses were threatened and none would testify.
-- In short, there was nothing which could be supposed to have suggested the idea of carraway seeds to the little boy who made the enquiry. The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales
The enquiry will be headed by Lord Jones, sometime editor of the 'Daily News'.
It is a battle in defence of reason and objectivity, the very basis of all scientific enquiry.
Certainly in this book, his fine poems about his family represent an enquiry into his own roots, a questioning of his own motives, which is lacking in his earlier and middle poems with their pristine certitude.
This is an accusation which affects the whole of our enquiry.
You can check which postcodes are in areas covered by the ‘disadvantaged’ area rules on the Inland Revenue website - or call into any Inland Revenue enquiry office.
These comments are not directly relevant to this enquiry.
The minister said she did not consider that a public enquiry would serve any useful purpose.
In 1902 a Capital Sites Enquiry Board had inspected several potential sites on the southern tablelands, including Yass, Goulburn, Bombala, and Dalgety.
Please quote your reference number when making an enquiry.
A full, transparent 43 force public enquiry is needed to force the disclosure of these illicit payments and inducements. See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The official enquiry was a long-drawn-out process.
She took the initiative in asking the board to conduct an enquiry.
A spirit of enquiry is abroad among the Chinese, and there is a class of students, by no means small in number, who receive with avidity instruction on scientific matters from the West.
Very recently I had an enquiry from a large corporate entity asking for p2pnet advertising rates, as well as a lot of complicated data on p2pnet readers, who they are, where they are, click-through rates, and so on. Bullshit-free tech support
We shall make you our most favorable quotations CFR Lagos upon receipt of your specific enquiry.
Descriptions about religions throughout the book are invariably ahistorical, fail to inculcate any rational enquiry and singularly ignore the time and space contexts.
Those complex overtures done with, I followed up all gung-ho with an enquiry as to when the piece was required.
We were surprised at the speed of the response to our enquiry.
The director has been suspended on full pay, pending an internal enquiry.
Police are following a definite line of enquiry in their ongoing investigation into the vandalisation of a memorial shrine on the outskirts of the town.
I want to make an enquiry about train times.
The Russians were held responsible for this and their refusal to allow an enquiry by the International Red Cross only confirmed to non-communists in Poland that Stalin's government was responsible for these murders.
Liz did not think she would have minded her investigation into Crossland's whereabouts being subsumed into the wider Carver enquiry. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The purpose of the research is to put this area of enquiry on a sound experimental footing.
The complainant alleged that the premier of the Northern Cape handed over the 'illegally recorded audio-cassette' to a commission of enquiry, which the complainant had to appear before," Mthala said. ANC Daily News Briefing
And it is observed, -- so far as enquiry is able to look back at this distance of time, -- that at his being a school-boy he was an early questionist, quietly inquisitive "why this was, and that was not, to be remembered? why this was granted, and that denied? Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
‘We are following a number of lines of enquiry and we have taken possession of a number of items from the scene,’ added the Inspector.
Five hundred years ago, the available tools for enquiry were distinctly limited by parochial geography and religious culture.
The enquiry will be more in the nature of a public meeting than a formal hearing.
The minister will face the enquiry with his reputation at stake.
A few days before the Okudzhavas' arrival came the usual enquiry from the Soviet Embassy about the hotel.
The cafés don't really appear as mysterious objects of enquiry, but as a way in to literary-political tropes of stunning familiarity and patness.
The subjects on the curriculum encourage intellectual enquiry.
The complainant alleged that the premier of the Northern Cape handed over the 'illegally recorded audio-cassette' to a commission of enquiry, which the complainant had to appear before," SAHRC spokesman Phumla Mthala said earlier. ANC Daily News Briefing
He said the Government was likely to order a full public enquiry before deciding whether to give the sweeping extension scheme the go-ahead.
This enquiry will point a few fingers and 'tut' a little, but the major players will walk free and get on with their lives without a second thought for the sons, brothers, fathers and friends they murdered. Army Rumour Service
The tears come because one suddenly realises that, in demystifying the belief systems in this inexorable process of enquiry, one's own vantage point is no less prone to attack.
Not wanting to interrupt such good entertainment, she didn't go into the office but sat down at the enquiry desk. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
What starts as a physical pilgrimage turns accidentally into an enquiry into the meaning of true religion.
Det Supt Bassett was in charge of the murder enquiry.
Although Norwich's custumal prohibited serfs from becoming freemen, it may be doubted that a thorough enquiry was made of the background of each applicant.
Through the Bootham-based Youth Enquiry Service he has the chance of a room in a shared house, which could lead to employment as a labourer.
The minister said she did not consider that a public enquiry would serve any useful purpose.
Of particular importance for our enquiry is the account of native history as Landa heard it directly from the lips of his Maya informants. Primary sources of Maya history - part one
One example from a multitude of possible examples is the compulsory purchase order enquiry.
But, as it is believed, at the instigation of one member of the cabinet, himself largely connected with foreign trade, without enquiry and without warning, the market was thrown open to competition from without, barilla imported, and the staple product of the north of Scotland annihilated. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
The enquiry pointed the finger of blame at the driver of the crashed coach.
European philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche have begun their philosophizing from a starting-point which implied, as an essential part of their "organum" of enquiry, the possession by the human soul of some sort of aesthetic vision. The Complex Vision
Through the Bootham-based Youth Enquiry Service he has the chance of a room in a shared house, which could lead to employment as a labourer.
A judicial enquiry was ordered, but witnesses were threatened and none would testify.
I found on enquiry of McNeal that we had only about two pounds of flour remaining. this I directed him to divide into two equal parts and to cook the one half this morning in a kind of pudding with the hurries as he had done yesterday and reserve the ballance for the evening. on this new fashoned pudding four of us breakfasted, giving a pretty good allowance also to the Chief who declared it the best thing he had taisted for a long time. he took a little of the Hour in his hand, taisted and examined very scrutinously and asked me if we made it of roots. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
A high-level enquiry, Operation Lancet, investigated claims that officers under his command had given heroin to a suspect in return for a confession, and that known drug dealers had been tipped off in advance of a police raid.
Her friendly enquiry as to the whereabouts of the Red House was met by a hostile stare from the woman behind the counter.
What are the main lines of enquiry you intend to pursue?
The enquiry dug deeper into the alleged financial misdeeds of his government.
If the doctor administers a drug to which the patient is known to be intolerant, or gives some other wrong treatment, should the inappropriateness of the medical treatment affect the causal enquiry?
He can plot and plan, lie and dissemble without fear of contradiction or enquiry, let alone protest.
The police are following several lines of enquiry.
Benefits calculation packages are especially popular with inexperienced advice workers to ensure that they have followed every avenue of enquiry.
Computers are also used in bureaux to collect and analyse enquiry statistics.
Gardai confirmed yesterday that they have a definite line of enquiry in connection with this robbery.
The religious philosophers, not satisfied with the tradition of your forefathers, and doctrine of your priests (in which I willingly acquiesce), indulge a rash curiosity, in trying how far they can establish religion upon the principles of reason; and they thereby excite, instead of satisfying, the doubts, which naturally arise from a diligent and scrutinous enquiry. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
My conclusion, then, has to do with other situations of enquiry than this one, often spoken of as counterfactual situations.
The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution.
There is reason to counter that such charges often oversimplify what each of them means by rational activity as well as the large share that both grant to passion in activating, directing, and facilitating rational enquiry. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
Her friendly enquiry as to the whereabouts of the Red House was met by a hostile stare from the woman behind the counter.
Detective Chief Inspector Kenneth Harris, in a radio interview, announced that another line of enquiry was being pursued.
Researches into the causes of fatigue became more and more frequent, and coupled with such researches was the less immediate enquiry as to how fatigue could be "combated" or "alleviated. Spontaneous Activity in Education
But when he arrives down under, the simple enquiry leads to other more disturbing questions.
The director has been suspended on full pay, pending an internal enquiry.
The trial court was directed to hold an enquiry and then to determine the amount of mesne profits which was payable.
The first resolution for the AGM covers bylaw changes related to the public representatives on the Professional Conduct Enquiry Committee.
A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers - the variety is so large as to make description impossible.
I just can't bear to read the detailed analysis, let alone the actual report, of an enquiry into a very narrow and arguably esoteric event.
We would now like to broaden/widen the scope of the enquiry and look at more general matters.
They do not consider the case serious enough to warrant a government enquiry.
Liz did not think she would have minded her investigation into Crossland's whereabouts being subsumed into the wider Carver enquiry. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The enquiry will be seen as yet another whitewash. The Sun
Further enquiry into Pardy's activities might well hold the clue to the truth.
The purpose is one of scientific enquiry.
He suggests that in new cases when women go to the police and accuse their partner of battering them, the man will get thrown out of their property, pending an enquiry.
I was grateful for his letter which hastened the course of the enquiry.
Contemporary dance is each artiste's journey of enquiry, Jayachandran observed.
Herschel's manual of Scientific Enquiry; publishes great works on recent and fossil cirripedia, 1851-4; receives Royal Medal of Royal Society, 1853, and Wollaston Medal of Geological Life of Charles Darwin
Greenpeace will seek a judicial review if a full public enquiry is not held.
Rowley's attorney, Senior Counsel Gilbert Peterson, sought the intervention of the enquiry's chairman, Prof John Uff. Saying he thought Goddard was asking "a very proper question", Uff reminded Peterson that this is a public enquiry "which is" inquisitorial ". TrinidadExpress Today's News
An enquiry would have revealed that the man who opened the account was not the person he purported to be.
Venture industrial investment, corporate finance advisory, enterprise financing, IPO recommendation, purchase and annex, policy enquiry.
The enquiry will be seen as yet another whitewash. The Sun
It can be controversial and I envisage that fixing zone boundaries would require a procedure of public enquiry etc.
This summons to free enquiry, untrammelled by customary beliefs, was taken up by the Greek philosophers, and especially by Socrates.
The publisher will require the client to complete an enquiry form soas to be satisfied as to the factual accuracy of the advertisement.
It has brought insistent demands for a further enquiry about the intelligence services and weapons of mass destruction.
Police say they are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry in their hunt for the 21-year-old.
The truth is unlikely to be brought to light by the promised enquiry.

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