7 sentences with “investigation”

Upon investigation, the fingerprint turned out to belong to Jorge Luis Salvatierra, a 31-year-old felony convicted felon, and was used to sentence him to 16 months in jail.

Tsar Nicholas I was the ultimate reactionary, personally overseeing the police investigation of the Decembrist conspiracy and creating Europe's first secret police force, the Third Section.

-We haven't issued the death certificate yet," the officer informed him. We have reopened the investigation into her death. Apparently, your daughter had a life insurance policy for $35,000. -Her mother was stunned.

There was a marked absence of empirical investigation: observing, from a neutral and objective point of view, natural phenomena and using these observations as the basis for informed experimentation into their causes and workings.

In mid-April there was a breakthrough in the investigation. Einar-Tore Ulving, an art auctioneer, received a phone call from an ex-convict named Jan Olsen, who claimed to know people who wanted to sell The Scream. Sceptical, Ulving asked for convincing proof.

Serbia's assumption that Austria would not risk war turned out to be completely wrong. The Austrian government demanded that Serbia allow Austrian agents to conduct a full-scale investigation of the assassination; Serbian honour would never permit such a thing.

Instead, the importance of the Scientific Revolution lay in the fact that, firstly, educated people came to believe that the workings of the universe could be discovered through investigation and experimentation, and secondly, that the universe itself was rationally structured.