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“Fact-finding” committees frequently find whatever facts they set out looking for.
Sen. Carroll Responds – Unpersuasively « View From a Height 2009
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Fact-finding missions can be sent to Burma to ascertain how many political prisoners have been released and whether those who are released aren't being harassed or re-arrested, the pace at which authoritarian laws are repealed, the transparency of elections and so on.
An Opening in Burma 2011
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MCCAIN: Fact-finding missions usually work best the other way around.
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MCCAIN: Fact-finding missions usually work best the other way around.
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MCCAIN: Fact-finding missions usually work best the other way around.
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Fact-finding: Most states aren't as lucky as Illinois.
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Fact-finding, it seems to me, allows somewhat more play for subtle life-experience biases than does making rulings of law.
IsThatLegal? 2004
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Fact-finding delegations of MPs have reported classes being held under trees, high teenage pregnancy rates, and shortages of both staff and facilities at KwaZulu-Natal schools.
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Fact-finding questions cause bad gut reactions because the man knows instinctively that you are looking at his data and not at him.
Why Men Won’t Commit George Weinberg 2002
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Fact-finding questions cause bad gut reactions because the man knows instinctively that you are looking at his data and not at him.
Why Men Won’t Commit George Weinberg 2002
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