Sentence examples for mere inquiry from inspiring English sources

The information was to be supplied as part of an "investigation", a rarer and more serious affair than a mere "inquiry".

Garcetti joins other advocates and the federal government in making the case that the mere inquiry about criminal history can scare an applicant away. .

But Mr. Scheirer said the mere existence of an inquiry, coupled with growing pressure from Congress, could affect behavior.

The big questions on Iraq, played out before the British people in the theatre of parliament, are mere background to this inquiry.

When the Seattle Opera announced its 2013-2014 season, the most intriguing question was "Will it be able to make a compelling case for Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul?" Since that opera has had a performance history that is considerably less gaudy than Aida, Boheme or Carmen, it is not an inquiry of mere academic interest.

The man, from his own evidence to the Hutton inquiry, is a mere puppet.

There were no chummy texts with any proprietor and no blizzard of emails, text and phone exchanges with Adam Smith who last week told the inquiry it was mere happenstance he was not in touch with the alliance — they had not contacted him.

It's hard to reject the arguments for a full inquiry, rather than a mere expansion of Operation Herne, the current probe of the police conducted by the police themselves.

Lord Hutton's inquiry, for example, cost a mere £2m.

Action that is the subject of any social scientific inquiry is clearly different from mere behaviour.

It delivered its Report (Kerner Report) on February 29 , 1968- a mere seven months after it began its inquiry.