Sentence examples for pointed inquiry from inspiring English sources

Several others murmured their assent at this pointed inquiry.

As two of the most prominent progressive voices in the country, Brown and Warren mounted a pointed inquiry into Carson's views on public housing and the minimum wage during his confirmation hearing last week.

Kittlaus began with a broad and oft-uttered question regarding what the weather was like today, but then quickly evolved his demands of Viv into ludicrously complex pointed inquiries.

Surgeons' heads are (figuratively) cracked open by the pointed inquiries of the chief of neurosurgery and other daunting white-coated legends, egos are deflated, and lessons are burned into the cortices of all those attending.

Regulators, in questioning former members of the board's compensation committee in recent weeks, have pursued a similar line of inquiry, asking pointed questions about what they knew of the stock exchange's pension plan, referred to as the SERP, according to directors who have been interviewed.

As Tristan becomes a close companion to Luai, an Arab pupil, his inquiries become more pointed.

Point to its pointed teeth.

The inquiry comes in the wake of a pointed European Court of Human Rights decision in March, which had a strong message for social workers.

After some inquiries from students and parents, and more pointed questions from civil rights lawyers, the state board of elections said Friday that it was "modifying and clarifying" the state guidelines on which the county registrar had based his releases.

The official said Mr. Clinton then put a couple of pointed arguments before Mr. Arafat: Wasn't this more important to his people than an inquiry?

In a statement last week, Chilcot made pointed reference to the government's obligation to provide "all relevant documents" to the inquiry.