What's the difference between enquiry and inquest?

Enquiry


Definition:

  • (n.) See Inquiry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Specimen type, date of sampling, the sender's location and the reason for making the telephone enquiry were recorded.
  • (2) As newer brain imaging techniques that are sensitive to function are developed, this line of enquiry holds considerable promise for furthering our understanding of the anatomy and physiology of emotion.
  • (3) The immunoscintigraphy confirmed the presence of local relapses in seven patients, correlating positively with the results of conventional enquiries.
  • (4) The main areas of enquiry--neuropathological, neuroadiological and psychological - are considered in detail.
  • (5) On the day Fahmy met the Guardian, one of the committee's working groups had just decided to alter the "start date" of their enquiries – moving it from 14 January, the day the Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from office, back to June 2010 when the Alexandrian youth Khaled Said was killed in broad daylight by two police officers, an incident that mobilised many Egyptians against the Mubarak regime.
  • (6) "I and the [enquiry] panel were surprised that the level of preparation, for a weather event that was off the radar, was not much better than transpired," he said.
  • (7) The foundation espouses a method of urban planning called Enquiry by Design .
  • (8) The three major levels of enquiry regarding possible mechanisms for the transmission of alcoholism and the involvement of genes and gene products in its development are factors related to exposure, metabolism, or pharmacological effects of ethanol.
  • (9) We will continue to work with the police to assist them in this and any other enquiries they are making."
  • (10) This study used the age-sex register of a group medical practice as the population base for a postal and follow-up interview enquiry to locate handicapped people and examined the possibility of the combined use of a practice diagnostic index and the patients' medical records for the same purpose.
  • (11) The panels themselves follow strictly controlled lines of enquiry.
  • (12) The enquiry included 186 deaths during the period from 1948 to January 1, 1990.
  • (13) As the spine flexes and extends, this centre is expected to move; where it moves and the rationale for its motion is worthy of enquiry.
  • (14) These results should, however, be interpreted with caution because of the high proportion (34%) of cases in which the cause of death could not be determined with precision even after the complementary enquiry.
  • (15) Then, the biological requirements for pathogenicity: infection of mucous surfaces; penetration of those surfaces; multiplication in vivo; interference with host defence mechanisms; and damage to the host, are taken in turn, and an enquiry is made on how far studies have progressed toward identifying their molecular determinants and relating structure to biological action.
  • (16) All sides at the Vienna talks have agreed that the resolution of the IAEA’s enquiry into past weaponisation work will only be achieved at some later date over the lifetime of a comprehensive deal, when it will be tied to the lifting of the last sanctions on the country.
  • (17) Labour abandoned the enquiry after evidence was withdrawn by two key witnesses.
  • (18) A natural language, free enquiry patient simulation of high fidelity has been developed using low cost microcomputer technology.
  • (19) The situation changed during the enquiry and the incidence of paralytic cases decreased.
  • (20) Should there be an enquiry we would of course be happy to contribute, if asked."

Inquest


Definition:

  • (n.) Inquiry; quest; search.
  • (n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death.
  • (n.) A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.
  • (n.) The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She expressed her condolences to Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janis, who did not attend the inquest, marking the loss of "a talented woman at such a young age".
  • (2) Outside of human resources matters, they cover changes to services; reconfiguration of services; deciphering all the rules and regulations so that people can do their jobs; interpreting the complicated rules around commissioning care; commercial deals; inquests and dealing with families; and supporting clinical staff in making the right decision in the best interest of the patient.
  • (3) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
  • (4) This cross-sectional descriptive study of 161 suicide inquests in the Cape Town area during 1983 and 1984 includes demographic characteristics of the study population and factors assumed to have had a determining influence on the act of suicide.
  • (5) It was on that basis that he resumed the adjourned inquest, at which Lugovoy is represented by counsel.
  • (6) DS Mark Gower, of the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, took the inquest through maps and video footage gathered to assist the coroner.
  • (7) Advocates for victims of domestic violence say they hope the inquest into the death of 11-year-old Luke Batty, who was assaulted and killed by his father, will identify the systemic failures that led to his death and expose a culture that too often blames victims.
  • (8) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
  • (9) He also criticised the "indefensible" length of time families of the victims had had to wait for an inquest to be held.
  • (10) Once, the inquest heard, he threatened Luke’s football coach, telling him: “I have a knife with your name on it.” When Anderson killed Luke there were four warrants out for his arrest including one related to his possession of child sex abuse images.
  • (11) One official wrote: "An article like this would be a heaven-sent opportunity to those who wish to get maximum publicity out of this incident to argue that the coroner was biased and for this reason the inquest was unsound."
  • (12) The inquest shows that information of the patient, his family and occupational environment is not effective enough.
  • (13) At the pre-inquest review hearing in Aberdare, the Powys coroner, Louise Hunt, said a full inquest would look at whether article two of the European Convention on Human Rights, covering the right to life, had been contravened and whether there had been any failings by those in charge of the soldiers.
  • (14) Last December, Northern Ireland's chief law officer, Attorney General John Larkin QC, said there should be no more police investigations, inquiries or even inquests into killings related to the conflict prior to the 1998 peace deal – an effective amnesty for all Troubles crimes.
  • (15) The inquest heard at times harrowing detail about how gangs of local teenagers and children, some as young as 10, had the family "under siege".
  • (16) Police officers had been unfairly targeted by lawyers in the inquest and “subjected to what can only be described as a media circus”.
  • (17) The seven-week inquest had seen police accused of lying.
  • (18) *** It was while they were waiting for Connor’s inquest to take place, in 2014, that Richard and Sara started to think about all the other people who might have died in similar situations.
  • (19) The inquest into the 2014 siege has heard that when police tactical operation unit members entered the Lindt Cafe at 2.13am on 16 December, shortly after Monis executed Tori Johnson, they did so believing he was carrying a bomb.
  • (20) He lived by the premise that he was always right,” Phillips told the coronial inquest into the siege which took place over two days in December 2014.