Synonym: enquiry, interrogation, query, question, research. Similar words: inquire about, inquisitive, in question, in quantity, require, required, requirement, banquet. Meaning: ['ɪnkwərɪ /ɪn'kwaɪərɪ] n. 1. a search for knowledge 2. an instance of questioning 3. a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest.
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(211) Survivors of the Paddington rail disaster told the inquiry that inadequate emergency equipment hampered efforts to save lives.
(212) For others, it's the removal of the hereditary peers or the Macpherson inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case.
(213) Indeed an inquiry of this sort should not, in my view, have been conducted on adversarial lines at all.
(214) There had been considerable confusion over the interpretation of the embargo, the inquiry was told.
(215) Reforms of ranks, pay and conditions would also have to await the Sheehy inquiry, Mr Lang added.
(216) I am therefore also establishing a national inquiry whose chairman will be Mr. Norman Warner, former director of Kent social services.
(217) Det Supt Bob Fenton, who is leading the inquiry, said all the new information would be studied closely.
(218) Meanwhile[sentencedict.com], there were continuing protests against Hinkley C outside the confines of the inquiry.
(219) We are open to new methods, new research, new avenues of inquiry.
(220) They were unable to pursue any line of inquiry which transgressed across the frontiers of authority of the intelligence organisations.
(221) The Commissions of Inquiry Act was to be amended to prevent the withholding of vital information.
(222) But if the general were the unclear, we could with reason abandon all science and inquiry.
(223) However, Powergen says it is confident of winning if the matter goes to a public inquiry.
(224) Among them is the inquiry into Versailles, the collapsed trade finance company.
(225) A public inquiry would be able to examine those figures in detail.
(226) We're waiting to see what comes out of the inquiry before we make a decision.
(227) Local authorities have the opportunity to develop processes and cultures based on mutual inquiry into today's problems.
(228) A Palm Beach County grand jury conducted another inquiry, completed in March.
(229) Thus, jurisdiction is determined at the commencement not at the conclusion of the inquiry.
(230) A Mr Ashton had given evidence to the Inquiry and quoted a third party, who appeared to criticise its works.
(231) They flew barrage balloons, commissioned perspectives and held a public inquiry.
(232) Such is the importance attached to an inquiry of this kind.
(233) Negative assurance may be expressed as a result of review work, on the basis of inquiry and analytical procedures.
(234) A public inquiry is usually employed, however, only if the appeal involves a very large or highly contentious development.
(235) He hoped that it would express disquiet at the circumstances of the Tully-West shooting and would call publicly for an independent inquiry.
(236) They could have published a White Paper or set up a commission of inquiry.
(237) It caused a fine flap and the Election Board had no choice but to conduct an inquiry.
(238) Stephen Merrell says a full independent inquiry should be held.
(239) The United Nations security council has set up a commission of inquiry.
(240) This effectively enables the Home Office to make arbitrary decisions, deporting people as they see fit, without any independent inquiry.
More similar words: inquire about, inquisitive, in question, in quantity, require, required, requirement, banquet, quite, equip, liquid, equity, quietly, quite a few, equipment, colloquial, equivalent, ubiquitous, acquisition, acquiescence.