How To Use Inquiry In A Sentence

The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years.
And I am certain the Commission of Inquiry will exonerate you in due course. MAMBO
He was initially banned for eight years in 2006 pending a further inquiry and final hearing. The Sun
Newspapers have, however, reported that prosecutors are convinced the investigating magistrate in charge of a corruption and fraud inquiry involving the regional governments of the Balearic Islands and Valencia will soon officially name him as a suspect in the case. Spain's king blocks scandal-hit son-in-law from royal duties
This exposes the inquiry as a total whitewash. Times, Sunday Times

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This stage of experiment should focus and direct inquiry by providing some answers to old questions and suggesting some new questions.
British air accident investigators were being sent to help with the inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
The criminal inquiry relies on circumstantial evidence and does not solve the riddle of MH370. Times, Sunday Times
The officer leading the inquiry has been taken off the case.
Rail chiefs launched an inquiry after two quarry trains were derailed on the same day.
In the hope of getting a fair deal, you should press him to undertake the most careful inquiry into the facts.
At the most recent inquiry, however, it seems that a jury decided that the policemen should be held accountable.
While I fully appreciate the concerns of the objectors at the recent public inquiry.
The inquiry has documents detailing his view. Times, Sunday Times
In response to the exposure of certain Labour peers in respect of their "consultancies", the Lib Dems have "called for a police inquiry" - see here. On "Calling for a Police Inquiry"
The government agreed to set up a committee of inquiry.
The decision to discontinue participant recruitment after six couples was made on the basis of saturation of relevant themes, with couple six adding only one or two themes to each area of inquiry.
The school has now appealed against the decision and an inquiry will be held before an inspector from the planning inspectorate.
Its original plans were thrown out by the city council and are the subject of a forthcoming public inquiry.
If he fled, either before or after finding sureties, the borsholder and decennary became liable to inquiry, and were exposed to the penalties of law. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
That may be why calls for an independent inquiry into her death are still ringing in the ears of the government.
We made an inquiry last week to establish his availability.
The inquiry was launched four months after Gotham published a scathing dossier. Times, Sunday Times
In this sense, can we say that the dismissal of Schoenberg et al had its roots in a sort of century-long "me, me, me, emotive"/composer-becoming-the-subject of historical inquiry -- where the "forward looking" or the "next new thing" was the prescient objective -- came to a violent collision with the unfamiliar, one which is unreconcilable with nostalgia? Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep
The lessons learned in the Bristol inquiry were clearly stated in the report.
A principle of inquiry can not be something that may keep us from recognizing a clear and settled conception.
This effectively enables the Home Office to make arbitrary decisions, deporting people as they see fit, without any independent inquiry.
The Medical Council removed his name from the medical register in 1999 pending the outcome of its inquiry.
But to dismiss them without scientific inquiry would be to dogmatise science, and label as heresy any challenge thrown at it.
But it turned out worse than that: the 200 submissions were later judged to be totally at variance with the findings of the RAF's own Board of Inquiry into the accident.
The paper has stated the inquiry learning and inquiry teaching'implication, and has discussed the biology inquiry teaching' fundamental feature and fundamental segment.
The problem since then has been how to rekindle a spirit of democratic inquiry without provoking another conservative backlash.
A judge has suspended a ban on the magazine pending a full inquiry.
He has tried to discredit the legality of parliament's inquiry, largely by concentrating on minor technical issues.
Counsel to the inquiry Gerard Elias QC, asked whether his officers might have feared getting a "bollocking" if they reported abuse by their men. The Guardian World News
KING: Senator Leahy, in the Boston Globe today, in an op-ed piece, you continue your effort to get what you call a commission of inquiry to look back into the practices, the detainee interrogation practices, what you call the torture committed during the Bush administration. CNN Transcript May 3, 2009
Parliament voted on September 10 to create an interdepartmental commission of inquiry to try to track down investments made in Bulgarian overseas companies.
The inquiry also investigated whether any of the Prince's staff have received improper payments or other benefits.
The inquiry, led by senior judge Brian Leveson, said Sunday it would call Paul Staines, who blogs under the name Guido Fawkes. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. want to interview the woman, Tristane Banon, as part of their inquiry into allegations Mr. Strauss-Kahn assaulted a maid in his suite at the Sofitel hotel in New York City on May 14. Probe of Ex-IMF Chief Is Widened
I really do not think that an inquiry would serve any useful purpose.
If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
However , the resource of inquiry station can not increase as much as the users' demand, therefore the problem is how to meet the demand of users with limited resources.
The combination of practising painters. ideal facilities, the surrounding landscape and desire for uncompromising inquiry gives Herringbroom Studio its unique spirit.
Politicians and union bosses are demanding an independent inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
The inquiry unearthed some disturbing evidence.
The government has instituted a court of inquiry to look into the allegations.
While my father remained in the garden, I sent my dutiful compliments to my mother, with inquiry after her health, by Shorey, whom I met accidentally upon the stairs; for none of the servants, except my gaoleress, dare to throw themselves in my way. Clarissa Harlowe
The American billionaire was forced to step down from a previous banking role after an inquiry by US regulators. Times, Sunday Times
The proposals were first floated in a report produced by a council-led scrutiny inquiry into gypsies and travellers and were revealed in the Daily Echo in October.
Aristotle construed the deductive stage of scientific inquiry as the interposition of middle terms between the subject and predicate terms of the statement to be proved.
The inquiry has to stay within the parameters laid down by Congress.
The move comes in the wake of the recent Echo Inquiry which exposed the potential danger in flats and bedsits.
At the time of the inquiry the families had been supplied with summaries of both witness statements and other material used in evidence.
There will have to be a police investigation and judicial inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
The young lady in the inquiry office was very forthcoming.
MPs have also spoken out against the unfair adoption system and are campaigning for a public inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
It would be an inquiry of some interest, now that the care of the public health is becoming a department of the state, with what sanatory measures these becoming solemnities were attended. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
The National Heritage Committee has conducted a public inquiry to find the answer.
That is why the scramble to calm anger by launching an official inquiry has become such a tangled affair. Times, Sunday Times
A lawyer for the inquiry also quizzed Mr. Mohan about whether the Sun objectifies women with its daily Page 3 fixture, which features topless women. Times of London Misled Court on Email Incident
The Government is being urged to hold an independent inquiry into the alleged abuse. Times, Sunday Times
Snooping women got caught up, she writes, in ‘the seamy obverse of elite inquiry.’
The aftermath of the war will be equally problematic for the inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
To categorically deny this inquiry is absolutely wrong. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney
There should be a public inquiry to ascertain the facts. The Sun
We need to encourage new and daring defenders of science, gadflies in the name of critical inquiry; interpreters able to extend the public's understanding of science and its methods.
The Prime Minister made clear during his evidence to the inquiry that his instinct was against any new statute. Times, Sunday Times
sells" potassium nitrate, and Block's attempted limitation of the staple / nonstaple inquiry to that mere ingredient would eliminate the § 271 (c) - mandated inquiries relating to whether what was actually sold was a material part of the invention and whether the seller knew that what was actually sold was especially made or adapted for use in infringement of the patent. Promote the Progress - Patent case bibliographic summaries
Her use of the word is idiosyncratic, and while some may object that its elasticity and multiform character makes it suspect, others may find it a helpful way of conceiving of historical inquiry.
We're prepared to cooperate fully with any security council inquiry.
I assure them that both the issues mentioned by my hon. Friend will be considered at the public inquiry.
The clean-up will continue for many months while the outcome of the official inquiry will be eagerly awaited.
Responsible administrators should conduct an inquiry into such things and see that necessary reforms are made.
They were already behind the curve over the need for a public inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
They all lacked the spine of real inquiry and a real concern. Times, Sunday Times
He's now the subject of an official inquiry.
The grade model has the inquiry block body attribute, according to the attribute for the model coloration, to carry on resources reserves functions automatically and so on.
That would have hindered any formal investigation and it has meant this inquiry has had to rely purely on his memory which has proved to be lacking. Times, Sunday Times
Getting acute pharyngitis while representing a client in a fitness to practise inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
Dewey's instrumentalism was both a theory and a method of inquiry for solving problems and for generating truth, or what he called warranted assertion.
French agricultural naturalists, whose perspective was both continental and philosophic, treated the British inquiry with careful condescension.
One and Three Photographs [Ety.] stands out within this series because it makes photography the subject of this inquiry and because the term used to verbally represent the photograph is "photic," which means of or related to light. Undefined
At the time of your initial inquiry all but two were replaced by long term certified substitutes in the respective content areas. A new mess at Central Falls High in Rhode Island
It is understood that DNA and other tests carried out in the immediate aftermath of the killing are central to proving or disproving the main line of the inquiry being pursued by the 40-strong team.
The research will pursue two main avenues of inquiry.
Selecting from a prepared list of possible reasons, participants recorded the reason for each telephone inquiry onto preprinted tally sheets.
An immediate independent inquiry must be established to investigate Robb's allegations.
It insisted on wholly open intellectual inquiry, and on a related entire tolerance.
Police said her disappearance eight days ago was still a missing person's inquiry. The Sun
The inquiry team seemed awed by this blast from the past. Times, Sunday Times
The distinction between appearance and reality, as expressed in the propositional copula, then leads dialectically to a new task of thought, the task of theoretical science, of systematic inquiry into the realm of truths.
That is, purposeful inquiry requires some prior interest in the topic under scrutiny.
Yates: The question Blair refused to answer in honours inquiry Yates: The question Blair refused to answer in honours inquiry
To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
But any further inquiry along those lines would have disclosed that the ISI was an original patron of the Taliban, a fact "knowable" by anyone yet inconvenient for the ISI's senior partner in Langley, Virginia, to admit. Aural History
I shall make no attempt to deal with every subject which was raised during the encyclopaedic Hinkley C Inquiry.
But the insistence has not appeased local residents, who are now planning a series of meetings to call for a public inquiry.
No inquiry can bring them back, but this one was at least an opportunity to answer vital questions and assuage grief with clarity. Times, Sunday Times
Last week, you were fairly critical of the Australian Sports Commission saying that they had mishandled the drug inquiry and they said you were ill-informed and had been in the loop since day one.
THE Green Party leadership was accused yesterday of being "gazumped" by Fianna Fail over its failure to deliver a public inquiry into the banking crisis. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
But that moment of total and utter jubilation turned to worry as a stewards inquiry was announced. The Sun
He had recently been told that he was being removed from the inquiry after becoming involved in a fracas in Spain. Times, Sunday Times
Despite these somewhat pessimistic conclusions, the study represents an advance on earlier studies in this field of inquiry.
The Home Office inquiry has been given a wide remit. Times, Sunday Times
The database costs 1 per inquiry and uses details it says are in the public domain. The Sun
But I've made the point that the coronial inquiry in November of 2007, effectively asked for an investigation and the AFP have now determined they will commence that. Interview on Sky News �� 10.00 News Now
That is why we have extended the exam results inquiry deadline. Times, Sunday Times
A decent gig on a highprofile select committee with a tasty inquiry can get you quality airtime. Times, Sunday Times
The process took 20 months, and led to an inquiry by police to verify her story. Times, Sunday Times
The question for a public inquiry is whether that is a sensible way of calculating the direct benefit.
Apparently, his rosbif government is in trouble avec some media inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
Les Worsley, Labour group leader at Rochdale, Lancs, wants an inquiry into the allegation.
The inquiry has since been beset by problems. Times, Sunday Times
The government has instituted a court of inquiry to look into the allegations.
An official inquiry has been launched into the cause of the accident.
But that moment of total and utter jubilation turned to worry as a stewards inquiry was announced. The Sun
From previous sessions of the inquiry, Foy's inability to recall much detail of events under examination has been well established.
It does not matter that the offences are trivial or made under the immunity perhaps conferred by the Senate in the course of an inquiry.
It is only right and proper that an independent inquiry should take place.
The system has many functions:set up an account, input and output process, inquiry, classify, settle an account, modify, print a report etc.
It is a troubling indictment of new, burdensome, institutional barriers to free inquiry.
The company declined to comment on initial findings of the inquiry but has said that there were no indications that present management was involved. Times, Sunday Times
That is why there is an urgent need to review this case and submit all the facts to an independent inquiry.
Police launched a murder inquiry almost eight weeks ago after disclosing that the cord on the main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been deliberately severed.
Mr Dempsey said the review was necessary because of the escalating costs and time-frame of the inquiry.
This effectively enables the Home Office to make arbitrary decisions, deporting people as they see fit, without any independent inquiry.
The inquiry was adjourned until Thursday.
The United Nations security council has set up a commission of inquiry.
The two-year inquiry by the Commons trade and industry select committee found civil servants kept vital information from ministers.
But residents fear that instead of saying yes the Government, concerned about its green image, will go for a political fudge - a public inquiry that could drag on for years.
We requested this inquiry in our own interests. Times, Sunday Times
Councillors even want to bung a barrister a few grand to state their case at the public inquiry.
The case has exposed a number of worrying concerns about the handling of such a sensitive inquiry.
The government will conduct a full-scale inquiry into the crash.
Why this inquiry, which demands the equipment of a competent phonologist, has not attracted more American scholars I do not know. Preface 2. Preface to the Revised Edition
He's cynical about whether the new inquiry will get closer to the truth or whether it is mere window-dressing.
The inquiry was critical of her work.
The local council set up a committee of inquiry to look into policing arrangements.
Australian officials then contacted commercial shipping assets to see whether commercial assets were in the area, and when that inquiry indicated that no commercial assets were in the area the Armidale was sent to the vessel in distress. Question Without Notice
And Graham Gooch's first lieutenant Stewart, the Surrey skipper, will be a key witness at a committee of inquiry.
Several lines of inquiry have been pursued and the investigation is continuing.
Qualitative inquiry embeds psychology in rich contexts of history, society, and culture.
Although the inquiry costs would be saved, the new system would need to be adequately resourced, added the report.
Qualitative inquiry, on the other hand, through use of methods such as unstructured or semistructured interviews, provides a way to study subjectivity as socially and culturally contextualized experience.
We all desire your early reply to this inquiry.
Regrettably in this case, because there have been deaths, there will effectively be a coronial inquiry. Interview - AM program with Emma Griffiths - Subjects: Smith calls for patience with boat investigation - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
That is why we have extended the exam results inquiry deadline. Times, Sunday Times
In a snug corner might be seen a party of sober, quiet-looking gentlemen, taking their lobster and bucellas, whose first appearance would impress you with the belief of their respectability, but whom, upon inquiry, you would discover to be The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
The aim of the inquiry was to determine what had caused the accident.
Not to be put off, Spurs urged the FA to hold an inquiry - but to no avail.
Its inquiry could be followed by a full-scale Monopolies and Mergers Commission probe.
A new team of detectives were called in to conduct a fresh inquiry.
Like inquiry can be active thinking, like exercise can improve physique, like mountain forest can recover one's original simplicity, love alone can study hard, like wind builds muscles.
Plans to build a private hospital have been scuppered after a government inquiry.
It's absolutely scandalous that it failed to launch a proper inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
The usual independent inquiry has been set up. Times, Sunday Times
The government ordered an independent inquiry into the affair.
Conversely, once cultural exposure is established as an urgent desideratum, can areas of inquiry like biblical criticism continue to be viewed as off limits?
To anticipate something to come in this inquiry, an ordinary definition of the neuron is an example.
The Tories and the LibDems said fears that ministers were attempting to 'suffocate' the inquiry were being borne out. Home | Mail Online
They are arguing that a provincial inquiry has no jurisdiction, because the RCMP is a federal institution. Archive 2009-06-01
The commission said it could revive the subpoenas if the editors failed to cooperate with the inquiry, which opens this week.
Witnesses to the inquiry are deferent toward Hutton, seemingly confirming his authority and wisdom.
Margaret Elder was giving evidence on the first day of the fatal accident inquiry into drugs deaths in Glasgow.
A major inquiry has been launched at Catterick Garrison by the military police after the victim was left groaning in agony. The Sun
In order to that I found out by inquiry the plantation where he lived, and with a woman of that place whom I got to help me, like what we call a chairwoman, I rambled about towards the place as if I had only a mind to see the country and look about me. Moll Flanders
The government has announced the terms of reference for its proposed committee of inquiry.
The inquiry team will also controversially clear the Crown of any racism in its handling of the case.
They steadfastly maintained that their original inquiry, which led to the conviction of one reporter and one private investigator, had put an end to what they called an isolated incident. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
By direct inquiry of the leading importers in different cities I find that we import about 4500 lbs of French or flake spawn, and 4000 bushels, or 64,000 lbs of English or brick spawn, and that fully a half of this whole importation is handled by the seedsmen of New York city. Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure
We shall have to rely instead on the razor-sharp mind of Lord Hutton and the work of his inquiry.
The inquiry is met with a roar of undiluted enthusiasm.
I was curious to discover whether it was occasioned by its flowing near one of the far-famed Poison trees (Upas antiar) of Java, but my informant could not satisfy my inquiry. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
Shekhar initially apologised over the surveillance and offered a joint parliamentary inquiry.
They were unable to pursue any line of inquiry which transgressed across the frontiers of authority of the intelligence organisations.
The inquiry is by no means cut and dried.
And no matter that this all culminates in a media climate in which, as the Leveson inquiry heard this week, newspapers routinely engage in inaccurate, prejudicial and victim-blaming when reporting violence towards women, as evidenced by the headline in which a gang rape is called an "orgy in the park". Committee's solution to attacks on female politicians: 'just get on with it'
My bedside manner, my gentle line of inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
Page 185, Volume 2 learned the lesson of Darwinism will “forswear inquiry after absolute origins and absolute finalities in order to explore specific values and the specific conditions that generate them” (1910, p. 13). EVOLUTIONISM
They blatantly refuse to acknowledge the guiding principles of normal scientific inquiry.
If the affiliates make a public call for an independent inquiry, I think they would have to act.
He called for a judicial inquiry into the financial services industry. Times, Sunday Times
While Cooley bets his intellectual life upon inquiry that depends upon such methods, these strategies for learning may fall away.
He refused to speak to inquiry agents sent by his solicitors to obtain a proof of evidence and she was reduced to tape recording in conference.
Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid.
The case for a new inquiry was boosted last year by the discovery of a huge cache of documents removed from colonies before independence. Times, Sunday Times
The officer's comments were released yesterday in a heavily redacted transcript of his evidence given to the inquiry last year. Times, Sunday Times
In answer to your recent inquiry, the book you mention is not in stock.
The sources -- who requested their names not be used because the investigation is still going on -- said the inquiry has been under way since shortly after March 1, when Rodriguez told investigators he used a substance called boli from 2001 to 2003, but that he had not used performance-enhancing drugs since 2003. Latest News - UPI.com
If such a declaration is made, the bishop requests his archdeacon to hold an inquiry and if that inquiry concludes that there is evidence of a breakdown a formal tribunal is held.
The inquiry is willing to consider other issues and is open to suggestion from readers.
One aspect of all of this that begs further inquiry is the seeming ineptitude of the military planners. Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny
We are carrying out an inquiry to see whether he should be placed under investigation for resisting arrest. Times, Sunday Times
Accordingly it belongs to the wisdom that is an intellectual virtue to pronounce right judgment about Divine things after reason has made its inquiry, but it belongs to wisdom as a gift of the Holy Ghost to judge aright about them on account of connaturality with them: thus Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Yet an independent inquiry can run alongside such a process, not least in passing on any information to police. Times, Sunday Times
The officer leading the inquiry has been taken off the case.
There was an inquiry into the safety of nuclear-powered warships.

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