Sentence examples for a private inquiry from inspiring English sources

"This is a private inquiry," he said.

In Victorian England, a "private inquiry agent" helps a teacher rescue her pupils from thugs.

The church now pursued a familiar strategy: hiring a former judge to conduct a private inquiry into an embarrassing scandal.

American Airlines began a private inquiry Friday into what Mr. Wagner described as the pilot's "poor judgment" and "inappropriate" comments.

Mr. Comey's office made a private inquiry to The Times about Mr. Blair; Mr. Comey did not talk publicly about filing charges.

A private inquiry by the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) to investigate allegations of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners is currently in progress.

On both sides, the Nightingales were of dissenting stock, and she was brought up among free-thinking, intellectually adventurous Unitarians who enjoyed a stimulating combination of public purpose and private inquiry.

"Regrettably," he added, "as has happened in the past, the details of a private police inquiry have been leaked to the press and I face trial by media.

"The executive summary will tell us much more than we know right now about the CIA program but much less than the full report," Katherine Hawkins, a former investigator with the Constitution Project's own private inquiry on counterterrorism detentions.

A massive report about the alleged corruption of former president Daniel Arap Moi had been commissioned from the private inquiry firm Kroll.

The lawyers pored over its books and interviewed staff in the largest private inquiry of its kind (and, at €204m, probably the costliest too).Ellen Podgor, an expert in white-collar crime at Stetson University in St Petersburg, Florida, reckons that Siemens confessed all not to minimise the fine it had to pay but to avoid being barred from business with the American government.