Sentence examples for blind inquiry from inspiring English sources

David Ludgin, a lawyer with McCarter & English in Newark, N.J., commented last week on a listserv of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a group of trust and estate lawyers, that he had received a "blind inquiry from someone who told me that the will she prepared for her now-deceased husband inadvertently named her brother-in-law as executor, although she had meant to name herself".

Typically a prospective renter will send out blind inquiries to dozens of apartments, meaning landlords are inundated with requests that may or may not be legitimate, and typically only have time to respond to about 30percentt of them.

Blind, blind?

It's impossible for Harvard and other private colleges to reconcile their self-assigned label of "need blind" with inquiry into whether the candidate intends to seek financial aid (as asked on The Common Application, upon which more than 500 colleges rely) or any other question that might elicit information about the candidate's ability to pay.

When he returned to Nashville, he and Buddy received wide publicity, which prompted yet more inquiries from blind persons.

To go from sinful "curiositas" to productive "curiosity," from blind acceptance to open-eyed inquiry, from asking, "Why?" to answering, "How?" — this change, of all the world's revolutions, must surely be the most remarkable.

Dorothy Eustis's article on the school for the Saturday Evening Post entitled "The Seeing Eye" (1927) brought an inquiry from Morris S. Frank, a blind man of Nashville, Tennessee.

After going down some expensive blind alleys (Hutton and Butler), the country now had an inquiry that would consider all aspects of the Iraq war, from the justification, to the conduct of the war, to the dismal aftermath.

British spies could have known that the CIA was torturing terrorist suspects, a former security minister has conceded, as the clamour grew for an independent inquiry into whether the UK turned a blind eye to abuse of detainees.

A few years before he died, at the age of eighty-nine, the literary critic Frank Kermode wrote that "the young know nothing directly about old age and their inquiries into the topic must be done blind".

In an essay on The New Yorker's Web site about old age and literature, Ceridwen Dovey quotes Frank Kermode: "The young know nothing directly about old age and their inquiries into the topic must be done blind".