Sentence examples for investigate rather from inspiring English sources

In 1996, Judge Garzon, whose job is to investigate rather than to try cases, had opened a criminal case after Spanish lawyers asked him to look into the torture, disappearance and killing of Spanish citizens under the Argentine junta.

Of course, if these companies were doing anything clearly illegal, this would be a matter for the IRS to investigate rather than a policy question for us to consider in these pages.

Many humanitarian agencies believe the best way to make the ceasefire work is to urgently increase the powers of the monitoring mission by allowing it to investigate, rather than merely document, breaches of the ceasefire.

While a "sentinel" tamarin heralded a warning signal to other monkeys, a group of confounded tamarins chose to investigate rather than flee until the wild cat emerged from the foliage and moved toward them.

I must admit that my bedroom walls have never been shrouded in posters of Tom Cruise; this, however, is his meatiest performance since "Magnolia," and Spielberg, keen to investigate rather than indulge him, catches something futuristic, something only ninety-five-per-cent human, in the angled prow of Cruise's brow and nose.

An independent counsel, Cho Joon-woong, was called in by the National Assembly to investigate, rather than leaving matters to the usual prosecutor's office.As a result of the investigation Mr Lee has now been charged with evading 112.8 billion won ($113m) in taxes and hiding 4.5 trillion won in some 1,200 accounts under various names.

Thomas Drake, an American who exposed widespread lawlessness … [he was a senior NSA employee who raised concerns about agency programs and their impact on privacy] … rather than having those claims investigated, rather than having the wrongdoing remediated, they launched an investigation against him and … all of his co-workers.

Urban Advantage employs EE with the aim of creating "hands-on investigations that engage [students] in science as a way of thinking and investigating rather than simply as a body of knowledge," according to its website.

They should have started investigating rather than waiting".

That's what it should be investigating rather than reviewing editorial controls now in existence.

Had they been investigated rather than ignored, we might not be in the fix that we are in today.