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单词 fact-finding
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Definition of fact-finding in English:

fact-finding

adjective ˈfaktfʌɪndɪŋˈfækt ˌfaɪndɪŋ
  • attributive (especially of a committee or its activity) having the purpose of establishing the facts of an issue.

    a fact-finding mission
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The next issue on her broad-ranging agenda is a fact-finding mission with a view to potentially tabling a bid for the 2012 Olympics for London.
    • The team undertook a fact-finding mission to assess how violence had affected minority women.
    • We explore the fact-finding function of the Court a little later.
    • The analysts and political commentators say the tribunals are a fact-finding mission, but the reality is that they are glorified public trials.
    • We are desirous of joining a fact-finding mission to find out the root-cause of terrorist activities, and discuss its solution.
    • This would place considerable weight on fact-finding processes prior to sentencing.
    • The request follows an August fact-finding mission by the commission's Arizona State Advisory Committee.
    • The Tuesday visit is part of a two-day fact-finding mission to Scotland on new and emerging technologies.
    • Leave your expectations behind and consider it all a fact-finding mission.
    • Most of them feel the fact-finding mission is a non-partisan issue.
    • Seven years ago, I took a party of York schoolchildren to visit Odense in Denmark on a fact-finding mission for a new safe routes to schools project.
    • In fact, the Court's exceptionally broad ruling removed fact-finding processes even from the Court's own debates.
    • They are on a fact-finding mission to gather all data, surveys and specialist reports to oppose the no smoking ban in Ireland.
    • The programme reminded me of a conversation with one who was on a fact-finding committee some years ago with the aim of attracting the Games to Ireland.
    • But other missions said attendance was a routine part of fact-finding activities.
    • Once a fact-finding mission has been established and its chairman and members appointed, no persons should be added to the mission as members except to fill a vacancy in the mission.
    • They get a lot of people out on fact-finding missions and I think we can learn from that.
    • She spent half a day in the facility on a fact-finding mission and in consultation with senior management at Oak Park.
    • She was the first representative of an international human rights organisation to visit Gujarat on a fact-finding mission.
    • Amendments to the Criminal Procedure law in 1996 introduced adversary elements to the fact-finding process in criminal trials.
    Synonyms
    examination, enquiry, study, inspection, exploration, consideration, analysis, appraisal
noun ˈfaktfʌɪndɪŋˈfækt ˌfaɪndɪŋ
  • The discovery and establishment of the facts of an issue.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Court feels free to make an independent examination of the record, whatever the fact findings in the state proceedings, in order to protect the constitutional principles at stake.
    • When the fact-findings are based in large measure on documentary evidence, they do not carry the same weight on appeal as findings based entirely on oral testimony.
    • While this is not a blank cheque, it authorises them to re-evaluate the consequences of the adjudicator's primary fact-findings, and that is what they did here in relation to the deportation decision.

Derivatives

  • factfinder

  • nounˈfaktfʌɪndə
    • The factfinder would have to weigh the credibility of the witnesses.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • First, for every argument why juries are more accurate factfinders, there is another why they are less accurate.
      • Long before the law of probabilities was articulated as such, practical people formulated certain common sense conclusions about human behaviour; jurors as factfinders are permitted to do the same - and so are law enforcement officers.
      • For one thing, a judge's doubt do not necessary mean a case should be taken from the jury, the ultimate factfinder.
      • The answer is that when it suited its purposes, the panel conducted itself in the fashion of factfinders operating under the traditional civil law standard of proof for the finding of facts: the preponderance of the evidence.
 
 

Definition of fact-finding in US English:

fact-finding

adjectiveˈfækt ˌfaɪndɪŋ
  • attributive (especially of a committee or its activity) having the purpose of discovering and establishing the facts of an issue.

    a fact-finding mission
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was the first representative of an international human rights organisation to visit Gujarat on a fact-finding mission.
    • Leave your expectations behind and consider it all a fact-finding mission.
    • The team undertook a fact-finding mission to assess how violence had affected minority women.
    • Seven years ago, I took a party of York schoolchildren to visit Odense in Denmark on a fact-finding mission for a new safe routes to schools project.
    • They get a lot of people out on fact-finding missions and I think we can learn from that.
    • They are on a fact-finding mission to gather all data, surveys and specialist reports to oppose the no smoking ban in Ireland.
    • Most of them feel the fact-finding mission is a non-partisan issue.
    • She spent half a day in the facility on a fact-finding mission and in consultation with senior management at Oak Park.
    • The next issue on her broad-ranging agenda is a fact-finding mission with a view to potentially tabling a bid for the 2012 Olympics for London.
    • The Tuesday visit is part of a two-day fact-finding mission to Scotland on new and emerging technologies.
    • The request follows an August fact-finding mission by the commission's Arizona State Advisory Committee.
    • The analysts and political commentators say the tribunals are a fact-finding mission, but the reality is that they are glorified public trials.
    • We explore the fact-finding function of the Court a little later.
    • In fact, the Court's exceptionally broad ruling removed fact-finding processes even from the Court's own debates.
    • But other missions said attendance was a routine part of fact-finding activities.
    • Amendments to the Criminal Procedure law in 1996 introduced adversary elements to the fact-finding process in criminal trials.
    • The programme reminded me of a conversation with one who was on a fact-finding committee some years ago with the aim of attracting the Games to Ireland.
    • We are desirous of joining a fact-finding mission to find out the root-cause of terrorist activities, and discuss its solution.
    • Once a fact-finding mission has been established and its chairman and members appointed, no persons should be added to the mission as members except to fill a vacancy in the mission.
    • This would place considerable weight on fact-finding processes prior to sentencing.
    Synonyms
    examination, enquiry, study, inspection, exploration, consideration, analysis, appraisal
nounˈfækt ˌfaɪndɪŋ
  • The discovery and establishment of the facts of an issue.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Court feels free to make an independent examination of the record, whatever the fact findings in the state proceedings, in order to protect the constitutional principles at stake.
    • When the fact-findings are based in large measure on documentary evidence, they do not carry the same weight on appeal as findings based entirely on oral testimony.
    • While this is not a blank cheque, it authorises them to re-evaluate the consequences of the adjudicator's primary fact-findings, and that is what they did here in relation to the deportation decision.
 
 
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