Sentence examples for protracted inquiry from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cohen has privately expressed frustration with the toll that the protracted inquiry has taken.

This country should not have to endure a protracted inquiry into the matter.

The Obama administration has been cool to proposals by Democrats to investigate the previous administration, fearing that any protracted inquiry could alienate some within the C.I.A. and have a chilling effect on operations at the spy agency.

Ch Insp Alan Murray, of Strathclyde Police, said: "This was a very complex and protracted inquiry that required assistance from many departments of Strathclyde Police and the support of the procurator fiscal at Paisley.

Despite dabbling in mysticism, a field generally stereotyped as feminine by the patriarchy, Scully engages in "protracted inquiry", examining all sides of the issue, in order to return Waterston to health.

Labour's ignominious retreat this week does nothing to boost confidence that this will not be the dismal outcome of its protracted inquiries into council tax.

However, despite protracted inquiries and the conviction of two of the group's members for their involvement in the attack, investigators have never been able to identify the motorcycle killer.

Moreover, she said, independent prosecutors were judged not on a broad record but on their performance in a single case, which could lead prosecutors to protracted inquiries out of fear that if they uncovered nothing they would be accused of wasting time and money.

Washington attorney Paul Perito, a longtime friend who represented Pierce during congressional and independent-counsel investigations at HUD, said the protracted inquiries and their aftermath seemed to accelerate the diabetes and cardiovascular disease that afflicted Pierce.

The inquiry, which also involves Justice Department investigators in Washington, began even as President Bush said on Tuesday that he had little enthusiasm for protracted Congressional inquiries into Mr. Clinton's activities, a lack of interest that officials said was shared by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Fragmented, protracted and disparate inquiries behind closed doors, let alone carried out by police officers, will hardly restore public confidence already severely dented by denial and deceit.