Sentence examples for private inquiry from inspiring English sources

"This is a private inquiry," he said.

I decided a private inquiry would be more respectful.

In Victorian England, a "private inquiry agent" helps a teacher rescue her pupils from thugs.

Guardian Australia can reveal that neither Tisot nor Groves hold valid security licences or private inquiry licences in NSW.

The church now pursued a familiar strategy: hiring a former judge to conduct a private inquiry into an embarrassing scandal.

American Airlines began a private inquiry Friday into what Mr. Wagner described as the pilot's "poor judgment" and "inappropriate" comments.

Although private inquiries are generally deemed insufficiently transparent, they can be extremely useful.

Since January 2011, 15 private inquiries have been set up by the authorities to investigate allegations surrounding the work of the undercover officers.

Mr. Bowman says he has gotten about 20 private inquiries to purchase ObamaHillary.com, including several from anonymous buyers and one from a prominent women's advocacy group that is pushing for Mr. Obama to select Mrs. Clinton as his running mate.

Briefly kidnapping a UK delegate and interrogating her about an international oil deal that went bad, only releasing her after Britain and the U.S. made private inquiries.

Priestley's preference for "facts" over "hypotheses" in science was consistent with his Dissenting conviction that prejudice and dogma of any sort presented obstacles to individual inquiry and private judgment.