Sentence examples for inquiry signals from inspiring English sources

The combination of the lawsuit and the potential federal civil-rights inquiry signals that the treatment of Asians will frame the next phase of the legal debate over race-conscious admissions programs.

The appointment of commissions of inquiry signals timidity, a lack of leadership and sound judgement in government.

Combined with the recent conviction of Enron's former accountant, Arthur Andersen, these latest lines of inquiry signal that investigators are putting the conduct of the company's financial advisers under a harsh light, even as they consider bringing charges of fraud and related crimes against Enron's former top executives.

The inquiries signal the Justice Department's intensified interest in a case that has put Mr. Ensign, once considered a Republican presidential hopeful in 2012, in political and legal jeopardy.

The inquiry may signal the end of decades of battling over the project, which the government says will bring jobs and wealth to an impoverished region, but which opponents say is environmentally and culturally destructive.

She compares these rifts to what Peirce called the "irritations of doubt"[4] which open the door to inquiry and signal possibilities for recreation and rediscovery (1993, 21).

B1 Subway Signal Inquiry The M.T.A. inspector general is investigating allegations that supervisors who oversee the subway's signal system failed to make hundreds of back-up inspections of the lights that direct trains throughout the city.

He also told the inquiry that trains passing signals at danger usually pulled up within seconds.

A credit inquiry from, say, Toyota signals that the borrower is probably in the process of buying a car — making the kind of large purchase that is another red flag.

The Competition Bureau's criminal division, though, has opened a formal inquiry -- a clear signal that the government wants to protect discounters from Air Canada, the world's 11th-largest airline.

A1 Convention Arrest Inquiry A state judge signaled that he would consider an investigation of New York City's prolonged detention of people arrested on minor charges during the Republican National Convention.