Sentence examples for his enquiry from inspiring English sources

As Hume claimed in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), "By liberty we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will".

The old codes of duty and honor have given way to the cool calculus of moral rationalism, which William Godwin laid out for us in his "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793).

Fulton, and several of those who submitted memoranda to his enquiry, also argued for what we now call "Open Government", and in particular for in-house specialists to be able to engage with specialists in the universities and institutes.

A number of senior Security Service Officers, each with a varying degree of knowledge of the tape, had more than one meeting with Mr Stalker when he was persistently endeavouring to acquire information which he considered crucial to his enquiry.

Here's a snapshot: Jupiter – dressed as ever in a smart army jacket with red epaulettes – also engaged the crowd, testing their French, and getting back a bellowed "Oui!" to his enquiry "Ca va?".

Jupiter – dressed as ever in a smart army jacket with red epaulettes – also engaged the crowd, testing their French, and getting back a bellowed "Oui!" to his enquiry "Ca va?".

Hajnal describes how his research "enquiries were met with distrust and suspicion even more intense than what I had come up against in Hungary" (ibid. 44) due to the family's apprehension that Canadian immigration officials in Hungary could use the study findings against them.

Sheldrake handles his enquiries soberly.

Milne said his enquiries were "jolly sensitive".

He made the repeated response to his enquiries into a catchphrase, "not possible", uttered in a heavy Russian accent.

Van Veeteren, convinced it is a very human devil, persists in his enquiries, dealing delicately with teenage girls and robustly with adults who may be responsible for their maltreatment.