Sentence examples for inquiry from high-quality English sources.

• When was there going to be a public inquiry?

• Truth is widely held to be the constitutive aim of inquiry.

• Since the 2013 letters of inquiry, the Enforcement Bureau analyses have not uncovered any pattern or trend of complaints supporting further inquiry."

• Speaking after his question secured the PM’s promise of an inquiry, Sir Ed Davey said: “We need an independent, judge-led inquiry into the handling of coronavirus.

• Evidence before the inquiry ended on 25 September.

• On Monday, the Senate authorised the inquiry to continue until March 2021.

• Senator Rex Patrick declared “the outcome of the inquiry will fall according to the evidence.”

• In 1699, John Toland published an early version of Shaftesbury’s Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit.

Use inquiry in a sentence.

• Parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC) held a more restricted inquiry, and the option of a judge-led inquiry was held open.

• For Nixon, it took 599 days from the Watergate break-in to an inquiry, while for Clinton it took 260 days from the first news report of an affair to an inquiry.

• As defined by the commentator of the Aphorisms on Inquiry (Nyāyasūtra), Vātsyāyana (5th century CE), the term ‘nyāya’ stands just for critical or rational inquiry.

• Earlier inquiries have taken considerable periods to report, like the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday which took 12 years and the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War which took seven.

• On this view, jurisprudential inquiry would be continuous with—and methodologically quite similar—to the work done in other areas of normative inquiry, especially ethics and aesthetics.

• But the inquiry may have a legal duty under data protection laws, as the custodian of this historical document, to ask the individuals first what they want retained by the inquiry - and therefore disclosed.

• The inquiry - formally titled the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes - said in its final report that witnesses were told before giving evidence to the Confidential Committee section of its inquiry that their recordings would be destroyed.

• This week he centres on the Leveson Inquiry and the parallels it has with the 1215 King John Inquiry in which both the King and prime minister are forced to set up and inquiry against their wishes and both inquiries do not go according to plan.

inquiry sentence examples

• Like Peirce, Dewey emphasizes the connection between truth and rigorous scientific inquiry; like James, Dewey views truth as the verified result of past inquiry rather than as the anticipated result of inquiry proceeding into an indefinite future.

• In scientific inquiry, the criterion of what is taken to be settled, or to be knowledge, is being so settled that it is available as a resource in further inquiry; not being settled in such a way as not to be subject to revision in further inquiry.

• Plato had formulated a famous paradox of inquiry in his dialogue Meno: either you know the object of your inquiry, in which case inquiry is unnecessary; or you don’t know the object of your inquiry, in which case inquiry is impossible (Meno 80d5-e5).

• Mr Drakeford notes that the allocation of Welsh Government funds is beyond the scope of the public inquiry - which begs the question: why did the Welsh Government commission a public inquiry that cost tens of millions of pounds, when the cabinet made the decision based on factors the inquiry could never consider?