The failure of the Serbian authorities to conduct an adequate investigation remains a significant political issue in Serbia.

This fact could have been verified objectively with evidence put forward by the applicant, but the DG had not carried out an adequate investigation.

Had there been an adequate and thorough investigation, in all probability they would not have reached the decision they did.

The patent office has come under increasing pressure in recent years from critics who contend that it issues patents without adequate investigation of earlier inventions.

Current law calls for "adequate and well-controlled" clinical investigations, which in practice means at least two test runs.

As the Army had expanded, the crime rate had risen, and local commanders did not have the personnel or resources to conduct adequate investigations.

He had been charged with willful dereliction of duty for not having carried out an adequate investigation.

And it just seems to me somebody ought to do an adequate investigation.

The report is rather explicit that neither side has conducted adequate and effective investigations of alleged violations of the laws of war by its forces.

"Whether a more adequate investigation would have produced a different conclusion," Mr. Schlesinger said, "is a matter of question."