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How to use the word investigatory in a Sentence?

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We’ve known the investigatory steps were under way, we just haven’t known alleged results until today, i think these are highly consequential.

Ty Cobb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From quantitative analysis of ShotSpotter data and other records, OIG concludes that CPD responses to ShotSpotter alerts rarely produce evidence of a gun-related crime, rarely give rise to investigatory stops, and even less frequently lead to the recovery of gun crime-related evidence during an investigatory stop.

The OIG report

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After multiple women made accusations that Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed them, the governor himself requested that Attorney General James oversee an independent investigation, the independent investigators selected are widely respected professionals, recognized for their legal and investigatory ability. To attack this investigation andattempt to undermine and politicize this process takes away from the bravery displayed by these women. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

Fabien Levy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After multiple women made accusations that Governor Cuomo sexually harassed them, the governor, himself, requested that Attorney General James oversee an independent investigation, the independent investigators selected are widely respected professionals, recognized for their legal and investigatory ability. To attack this investigation andattempt to undermine and politicize this process takes away from the bravery displayed by these women. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

Fabien Levy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I applaud the decision of the Attorney General to request an Inspector General investigation, and the IG’s commitment to proceed and probe the abuse of the department’s investigatory powers against Congress and the press.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission continues to follow the reports on the situation at the Edenville and Sanford Dams. Our primary concern is the safety of Michigan residents, and we urge them all to continue heeding evacuation guidance by local emergency management agencies, when it is appropriate and safe to do so, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will send a staff engineer to the site to assist with the investigation. The Commission pledges to work closely with state officials and coordinate our investigatory efforts wherever possible.

Neil Chatterjee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The FBI July report required significant additional investigatory field work before [ the ] personnel security office could begin to evaluate the information for adjudication. As Director Wray said, information was still coming to the White House personnel security office in February, the The FBI portion was closed. The White House personnel security office, who's the one that makes the recommendation for adjudication, had not finished their process and therefore had not made a recommendation to The White House.

Sarah Sanders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A back-end judicial review process to prevent unmerited removals of special counsels not only helps to ensure their investigatory independence, but also reaffirms our nation’s system of checks and balances.

Thom Tillis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations, a back-end judicial review process to prevent unmerited removals of special counsels not only helps to ensure their investigatory independence, but also reaffirms our nation’s system of check and balances.

Thom Tillis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

People should be troubled by any attempt by members of Congress to silence or undercut basic investigatory authority by a state attorney general's office, our office will not be intimidated by oil industry-backed members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Cyndi Roy Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Overdue doesn't capture it. It is eight years since the collapse of HBOS in 2008. It has taken a heap of pressure from parliament to secure appropriate action from the regulators, the lion's share of the investigatory work should already have been undertaken in the preparation of the regulators' report in to the failure of the bank.

Andrew Tyrie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While our investigatory approach has uncovered new witnesses, new documents, new facts and will result in the most detailed and complete accounting of what happened in Benghazi, the frustration that some feel at not seeing the work unfold on television or reading about new discoveries in print is understandable, the approach we are taking, while short on drama, aims to discover all of the relevant facts and to be long on credibility when the final report is written.

Trey Gowdy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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