I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

There is much in the result of John Chilcot's seven-year inquiry into the decision-making that led to Britain's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that can be cited to excuse headlines that refer to his findings as 'scathing' and 'damning.'

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.