No official federal government inquiry was conducted, on the grounds that it would have been a waste of time and money.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

Concluding quickly that since a writ of mandamus, by definition, was the correct judicial means to order an official of the United States ( in this case, the Secretary of State ) to do something required of him ( in this case, deliver a commission ), Marshall devotes the remainder of his inquiry at the second part of the question: " Whether it writ can issue from this court.

The official inquiry concluded that this was a collective suicide, but again conspiracy theories abounded.

They voted to reward Jouett with a pair of pistols and a sword, but considered an official inquiry into Jefferson's actions, as they believed he had failed his responsibilities as governor.

* 1088: the renowned polymath Chinese scientist and official Shen Kuo made the world's first reference to the magnetic compass in his book Dream Pool Essays, along with encyclopedic documentation and inquiry into scientific discoveries.

The official accounts ( which included mentions of a missing hyphen ) were the results of an inquiry conducted in less than a week.

The Spanish Court of Appeals rejected the lower court's decision, and on appeal in April 2010 the Supreme Court of Spain upheld the Court of Appeals decision against conducting an official inquiry into the IDF's targeted killing of Shehadeh.

Ten years later, in 1926, after an inquiry that became a " cause célèbre ", the late Lieutenant Herduin and Lieutenant Millant were exonerated, and their official military records expunged.

The Countess of Lennox, mother of the bridegroom, went to the Tower for several months, and Bess was ordered to London to face an official inquiry, but she ignored the summons, and remained in Sheffield until the row died down.

Wellesley was subsequently recalled from Portugal, together with Burrard and Dalrymple, to face an official inquiry.

Nearly one year after the fire, the official inquiry determined the cause was the failure, overheating and ignition of one of the electric heaters installed in the conductor's compartments that were not designed for use in a moving vehicle.

The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U. S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25 – 26, 1876.

" In truth, the election was more of a draw, so close that the official inquiry of the election concluded it was impossible to conclusively establish who between Kibaki and Raila won.

The official inquiry found that the statements of witnesses who talked with Julien before he died in hospital five days after the crashwere inconsistent.

However, an official inquiry into the telephone tapping cleared Haughey of any wrongdoing and put more blame on Martin O ' Donoghue than the other TDs involved.

Dubious witness statements and the examination of the crime scene by the Los Angeles Police led to the official inquiry conclusion that the death of Reeves ' was suicide.

" In 1972, the official German inquiry into the numbers of deaths was published by the Maschke committee ( named after its chairman, Erich Maschke ).

The agency ( or any agents on its behalf ) are not entitled to any inquiry or official investigation.

The Épuration légale ( French " legal purge "), the wave of official trials that followed the Liberation of France and the fall of the Vichy Regime, examined whether Trenet was guilty of collaboration but the inquiry resulted in a mere reprimand without any further consequences.

The official inquiry found that Sultana's boilers exploded due to the combined effects of careening, low water level, and a faulty repair to a leaky boiler made a few days earlier.

Plans for a road at the eastern end of the M67 passing to the north of the current A628 route past Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle were cancelled in 2009 following four adjournments of the public inquiry due to inconsistencies in the official traffic models.

Following an official inquiry into their motives for being in Tibet, they were officially escorted to Canton in October, 1846.

Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??

In the subsequent centuries, the Persian version of the name had begun to come into general use before it was adopted by official decree in 1935.

Although cheap and effective in enabling use of some software that only used official ROM entry points for text output, this solution proved very slow because the Electron had to be placed into an 80-byte-pitch display to be able to get anywhere near to reproducing mode 7 and the CPU spent a lot of time drawing approximations of mode 7 characters and graphics that in a hardware solution would be achieved without any CPU processing.

Religious use in Brazil was legalized after two official inquiries into the tea in the mid-1980s, which concluded that ayahuasca is not a recreational drug and has valid spiritual uses.

However, DSM-IV-TR does not break amok down into two official categories.

In 1922, Henry Norris Russell aided the IAU in dividing the celestial sphere into 88 official constellations.

Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.

" In 2010 this was written into the church's Handbook, which directs official church policy and programs.

The annexation of Mauretania, begun under Caligula, was completed after the defeat of rebel forces, and the official division of the former client kingdom into two Imperial provinces.

Later, they were gathered together into collections, both unofficial and official.

However, the official attendances can be considered somewhat dubious in this era as many fans would get in by climbing over the fence from Bishops Park into the Putney End.

Modern approaches take into account the problems of overcount and undercount, and the coherence of census enumerations with other official sources of data.

According to social mores and the prevailing law, marriages, entrance into religious life and migration from one ’ s place of birth to another land required official permission from upper strata ( the lord and the council commissioner ).

In all, the positive view of Soviet lifelong presented to the public by the official media was rapidly fading, and the negative aspects of life in the Soviet Union were brought into the spotlight.

France established direct control in 1640, reorganizing it into an official colony and expanding to the north coast of Hispaniola itself, whose western end Spain ceded to France in 1697 under the Treaty of Ryswick.

* the stories are filled with digressions into philosophy, the complete texts of official documents, and much more, making for very long books ;

There had also been other instances of disobedience prior to this, according to the official Du Parcq report into the incident such as a model prisoner attacking a popular guard with a razor blade and rough treatment of a prisoner being removed to solitary.

The provinces were grouped into twelve dioceses, each governed by an appointed official called a vicarius, or " deputy of the praetorian prefects ".

Of particular note was the translation of the Latin Imperator into the Greek Basileus, after Emperor Heraclius changed the official language of the empire from Roman to Greek in 620 AD.

According to official reports, the ship was carrying approximately of oil, of which about were spilled into the Prince William Sound.

Alternative calculations, based on the assumption that the official reports underestimated how much seawater had been forced into the damaged tanks, placed the total at.

During the same Fortran Standards Committee meeting at which the name " FORTRAN 77 " was chosen, a technical proposal was incorporated into the official distribution, bearing the title, " Letter O considered harmful ".

Note also that until well into the 20th Century, rather than an official readying the ball for scrimmage, the side entitled to the snap had complete custody of the ball and could snap it from the required spot at any time ; for instance, a tackled ball carrier might feign injury, then suddenly snap the ball while recumbent, there being no stance requirement yet.

Some legal texts that were adopted when the Republican Calendar was official are still in force in France and even Belgium ( which was at the time incorporated into France ), and have kept their original dates for citation purposes.

However, the Peace Accords signed in December 1996 provide for the translation of some official documents and voting materials into several indigenous languages ( see summary of main substantive accords ).