What is "inspectors"

Usage examples of "inspectors".

The United States will not be able to justify attacking Iraq if it is the French, Russians, and Chinese who are hindering the work of the inspectors and doing so in the United Nations--and Paris, Moscow, and Beijing all know this.

The Iraqis continued to look for ways to hamstring the inspectors, but their obstructionism and harassment were more an annoyance than an impediment.

This list does not include all of the different police, border guards, customs inspectors, and other elements of Iraqi law enforcement.

The Iraqis grudgingly turned over to the inspectors huge amounts of WMD-filled bombs and artillery shells, many of their Scud missiles, and major chunks of their nuclear program in hopes that this would satisfy the inspectors.

Before, Ekeus and most of the inspectors had believed their job was essentially done, and they had resented American pressure and claims that Iraq was still hiding proscribed materials.

The inspectors went in and the sanctions stayed on, and whenever Iraq attempted to renege on its commitments or challenge the authority of the international community, the Security Council sanctioned military action by the United States, the United Kingdom, and sometimes France.

Since then, defectors have revealed that Saddam had concealed quite a bit more than even the inspectors realized and that soon after ousting them he resumed his WMD programs to regain and surpass the capabilities he had amassed before the Gulf War.

Iraqis as far along on their nuclear program as the former inspectors and knowledgeable defectors believe them to be, a window is open now that will close in the near future.

Meanwhile, Saddam remained determined to halt the inspections before the inspectors uncovered his clandestine programs and stockpiles, and he was still looking to provoke a crisis with the United Nations to speed the lifting of sanctions.

In truth, the sanctions were always more important than the inspections, if only because it was clear from the start that Saddam never intended to cooperate with the inspectors and would probably be able to keep his WMD programs intact and functioning despite their best efforts.

The inspectors themselves will tell anyone who asks them that there is only so much inspections can do if the Iraqi government refuses to cooperate.

Whatever he says is believed and the tax inspectors talk to him as equal to equal.

Grijpstra is Dutch too and he feared the tax inspectors as the Calvinists had once feared the Spanish inquisition.

The commissioner wore highly polished spectacles with black frames which glinted in the rays of the afternoon sun, but the frosty blue eyes of the chief inspectors, squinting in the sun, were without aids.

The fact that she was one of two female homicide inspectors in the San Francisco Police Department?