Sentence examples similar to a slight inquiry from inspiring English sources
The peer's role in preparing his old college friend for one of the toughest chapters in his political career was to play the role of Robert Jay, the counsel for the inquiry, a slight, bearded figure who combines a razor-sharp mind and an encyclopedic command of the vast volumes of documents — known in legal parlance as "bundles" — that form a sort of baseline for the inquiry.
Frederick Fleet told an official inquiry of a "slight haze" on the horizon before the Titanic struck the iceberg.
The House vote approving the inquiry had a slight protective coloration of bipartisanship, with 31 Democrats voting with the Republicans, in fear, perhaps, of being demagogued as blatantly tolerant of the President's transgressions.
Update: A slight glitch – Yahoo didn't see our email inquiries today because they were sent to deprecated email addresses for press/PR.
The opposition wants an investigation controlled by Parliament, where it has a slight majority, rather than allowing the government-controlled police to handle the inquiry.
"There was a slight jar followed by this grinding sound," he told the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry.
Dr. Klawe, a slight and sprightly woman, had not been at Princeton long before she began receiving recruiting inquiries.
*This title is a slight riff on Jacques Rancière's examination of aesthetics as the "distribution of the senses," which will be part of our inquiry.
Further inquiry of our computational results demonstrated that such randomness in the activation times was sufficient to generate a slight discrepancy in the IL-2 responses when simulating small numbers of cells.
