Sentence examples for cynical inquiry from inspiring English sources

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Five minutes," barked David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association, making it abundantly clear that he had no patience for what he saw as a cynical inquiry about the spectacle of hundreds of wealthy, influential people biding their time in a long line for a fancy toy.

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So these are the most, sort of cynical excuses for serious inquiry, and they become the model.

Setting up the Davies inquiry has been a cynical and obvious ploy to allow him to drop his commitment to my constituents and the people of west London".

Trust in a professional approach requires transparency about standards, methods and motivations – and a culture which prizes accuracy and a positive relationship with the public rather than the cynical exploitation of them as revealed in the Leveson inquiry.

But pretending that freedom of inquiry can be separated from freedom of expression is naïve at best, cynical at worst.

But, heaven forbid, absolutely not in the crude, cynical way alleged by Mr Gilligan.TorchedTwo other things have so far emerged from the inquiry.

To the Daily Mail, he is the "eminence grease", "Whitehall's most cynical mandarin", and "Sir Cover-up", allegedly responsible for undermining the Freedom of Information Act and the Chilcot inquiry into the UK's role in the Iraq war.

So you must forgive us if we're cynical, frustrated and just plain angry about the inaction at the heart of our position and yet another inquiry designed to placate us.

Still cynical?

Cynical commercialism?

"Be cynical.

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