fact-finding
Example Sentences
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Oversight hearings provide members of Congress an opportunity to not only question and investigate the executive branch’s activity, but also to provide their constituents with this fact-finding work and draw attention to policy issues.
From Salon
On Wednesday, several members of a so-called fact-finding mission set up by the Hungarian government entered Ukraine by car.
From BBC
"We tried to conduct fact-finding for September 8 and 9," he said.
From Barron's
Speaking to the BBC on her fact-finding trip to Copenhagen, Mahmood said the government is "changing an age-old assumption of what it means to be a refugee -moving from a permanent to a temporary status".
From BBC
Cooper said it was important that the fact-finding mission planned to conduct further investigations into reported breaches of the arms embargo and agreed that it should be extended and enforced.
From BBC
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