What is "enquiries"

Usage examples of "enquiries".

It is impossible to make such enquiries without the news of them soon getting back to the man being asked about.

At first he remonstrated with the porter, who led him to the Pan American enquiries desk, who directed him to the attention of the nearest terminal security police officer.

He replied to the management's solicitous enquiries by assuring them that he was extremely comfortable and thank you.

WHILE the Jackal was doing his shopping in Brussels, Viktor Kowalski was wrestling with the intricacies of international telephone enquiries from Rome's main post office.

This time he wanted the clerk to telephone the Alitalia flight enquiries office and ask the times of planes during that week from Rome to Marseilles and back.

The enquiries into such a killing would expose to the police the visits of the tall Englishman to this house long before he ever had a chance to use the gun he now carried in a suitcase.

However, in the event that these enquiries should indicate the above is the truth, the plot described above constitutes in my view the most dangerous single conception that the terrorists could possibly have devised to endanger the life of the President of France.

Colonel Rolland, have you had any success with your enquiries in Vienna?

Section over Rolland's early-morning decision to use the Viennese office for his own enquiries, stared straight ahead of him.

Lebel had replied that he knew personally the men he needed to contact, that his enquiries would not be official but would be along the personal-contact basis that exists between most of the Western World's top policemen.

He was by nature a cautious man and had no wish to be involved in clandestine enquiries from a foreign police force.

Directory Enquiries put him on to the International Exchange and he asked them the number of a hotel in Rome.

At a cafe a hundred metres down the street he again used the phone, this time to ask Enquiries for the location of the nearest all night post office from which international calls could be placed.

The PA read the message to Lebel a second time, thought back to the enquiries he had made with Records that morning for Mallinson, worked it out for himself, and whispered «Bloody hell.

If any enquiries were made by a sharp-eyed Press man, the explanation would be that they were nothing but routine snap searches.