Sentence examples for factual inquiry from inspiring English sources

Erin Duggan, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office, said: "Our office conducted a further factual inquiry as we often do.

"Stories We Tell," a remarkable movie by the Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley, blends factual inquiry and something else — not quite fiction, but also not really documentary — to astonishing effect.

With the skill of a sleuth and the assiduous patience of a born scholar, Bauer reconstructs the schemes, characters and motives in a spirit of factual inquiry, keen empathy and, of all unlikely things, common sense.

It is basically a factual inquiry, and the evidence is often circumstantial, turning on such elements as whether the detainee committed hostile acts before capture, stayed in Qaeda-related guesthouses and/or training camps, or traveled from his home to Afghanistan or Pakistan by a particular route.

In the last analysis, my judgment that Casey does not support today's tragic result can be traced to the fact that what I consider to be an "undue burden" is different from what the majority considers to be an "undue burden," a conclusion that cannot be demonstrated true or false by factual inquiry or legal reasoning.

The Supreme Court declined to accept this premise in the absence of evidence of "actual market realities," ultimately holding that "the proper market definition in this case can be determined only after a factual inquiry into the 'commercial realities' faced by consumers".

A person's speech, supplemented by facial expression and gesture when speaker and hearer are mutually in sight, indicates and is intended to indicate a great deal more than factual information, inquiries, and requests.

This kind of knowledge is a priori in the sense that one need not engage in any factual or empirical inquiry in order to obtain it.

In a letter to the three groups calling for the investigation, dated last Friday, the commission's executive director, Barry Ginsberg, said that "after a factual and legal inquiry, the Commission on Public Integrity has unanimously determined to close this matter with no further action," according to a copy obtained by The New York Times.

Because we have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry.

Thayer also believed that it would be improper for judges to undertake an independent inquiry into the factual predicates of legislation; rather, he contended that judges should always attribute "virtue, sense, and competent knowledge" to legislators.