Sentence examples for A simple inquiry from inspiring English sources

A simple inquiry would have discovered Dr. Patel's disciplinary problems, the report says.

A simple inquiry about what music he likes elicits such a tortured response that I give up.

A simple inquiry like "Who are your favorite writers?" inspires an uncomfortable silence, then the response that she doesn't like to answer "that type of question".

"A simple inquiry to one of several third parties could have immediately revealed the fact that Madoff was not trading in the volume he was claiming," the report said.

A simple inquiry of, "how are you feeling right now?" can help start the conversation.

A simple inquiry about the work duties of the patient does not provide adequate information and in some cases this alone may be misinterpreted by the PCP [ 11].

Justice Kennedy said that this test, in the Federal Circuit's hands, had led to a "constricted analysis" that paid too much attention to an inventor's motivation and too little to a simpler inquiry: whether "there existed at the time of invention a known problem for which there was an obvious solution".

Furthermore, the question whether a country gives res judicata effect to United States judgments presents a relatively simple inquiry.

He wondered how his life might have been different if he hadn't always responded to those demands, and he asked himself, without pride but as a simple bemused inquiry, Why aren't I sadder?

This simple inquiry transformed engagement, and started to shift the organization's culture to one in which people started teaming up to improve safety.

A "there you go again" — or two or three or four — will come in handy when mocking antigovernment zealots like the newly elected Representative Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, who last week repeatedly ducked Diane Sawyer's simple inquiry as to whether she would end federal farm subsidies (her family farm has collected some $775,000) now that she's in Washington.