Sentence examples for costly inquiry from inspiring English sources

The ruling is a victory for Poundland, which was undeterred by the lengthy and costly inquiry and whose arguments the CMA accepted.

The case could stifle debate over climate-change issues, the report stated, and increase "the threat of being named as a defendant or co-conspirator subject to invasive and costly inquiry".

In their response to the UPR, Canada highlighted a pretty good-looking list of plans to address Aboriginal issues in this country in an attempt to prove that a costly inquiry is unnecessary.

But on 15 June this year, when he published the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, David Cameron said: "Let me reassure the House that there will be no more open-ended and costly inquiries into the past".

"I think that it is right to use, as far as is possible, the Historical Enquiries Team to deal with the problems of the past and to avoid having more open-ended, highly costly inquiries, but of course we should look at each case on its merits".

While acting with alacrity to apologise, Cameron would not be drawn on whether any of those implicated should be prosecuted and signalled that there would never again be "open-ended and costly" inquiries, though he did not make clear how the government would ensure that.

"We don't hide behind lengthy and costly inquiries which would divert resources and attention away from direct patient care.

After 14 years, the UK government in 2000 finally accepted, after a long, detailed and costly independent inquiry, that the failures of successive administrations had contributed to the BSE catastrophe.

Last year it was forced to abandon plans for a £56m school of design innovation in Bath after the government insisted on what would have been a costly planning inquiry.

In a statement to the Commons on Monday, Nick Harvey, the Liberal Democrat armed forces minister, said the MoD should be allowed to investigate the matter itself, adding: "A costly public inquiry would be unable to investigate individual criminal behaviour or impose punishments.

"In our view, a costly new public inquiry is not necessary or appropriate," he said.