The work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

Usage examples of investigation.

George had watched a marriage crack under the weight of a major investigation.

And I might go on to show in some detail that a doctoral investigation in the humanities, when the subject is well chosen, serves the same purpose in the education of a student of language and literature as the independent, intensive study of a living or a fossil animal, when prescribed by Agassiz to a beginner in natural science.

Within recent years we have witnessed an extraordinary development in certain studies, which, though superficially different from those pursued by Agassiz, have an underlying bond of unity with them, but which are generally carried on without reference to principles governing the investigation of every organism and all organic life.

One of the key agents in the investigation that led up to the Trade Center bombing was Special Agent Nancy Floyd.

The remaining details surrounding her story came from confidential Bureau sources and retired agents close to the investigation who agreed to speak to me on the record.

This second investigation, also ongoing during the fall of 1992, would have put agents within striking distance of other blind Sheikh cohorts who were engaged in paramilitary training sessions and gunrunning.

Like most agents who become subject to an OPR investigation, Floyd had very little sense of the specific charge in the beginning.

To hear that from a decorated Bureau veteran is an indication of the atmosphere of fear that exists among FBI street agents today - the fear that expressing even modest disagreement with a supervisor, or staying loyal to an asset the way Nancy Floyd had, might result in an investigation with career-ending implications.

But as far as Nancy knew, none of the agents she worked with in the Salem investigation had been interviewed.

Later, several FBI agents connected to the Day of Terror investigation got cash bonuses for their work.

On June 11, CIA case officers met with agents of the JTTF in New York who were handling the Cole investigation.

Refai had been interviewed twice by federal agents in 1994, but he had no idea if the investigation had gone anywhere.

Later he recalled that one of the agents was Tom Callaghan, but still insisted that he, Refai, was not the target of any investigation.

She had not wanted to tell Gordie Cleary she was following up on her private investigation of the man who called himself Alfredo Stevens.

Talbert drilled Andi over and over on her investigation, but her answers made things worse because she had so few results.