How To Use Inquisitor In A Sentence
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It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain.
Andersonville — Volume 1
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The British version depends partly on the audience's playing along with the show's somber, inquisitorial mood.
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For although a continuation of the bullary has just been published at Rome, containing several decrees of this congregation, there is not one that announces a fulfilment of this illusory promise, ” a promise imagined by a correspondent to French newspapers, but never given by the inquisitors themselves.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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Well, the inquisitor in our party was curious about the specifics of the policy, and jokingly needled the ranger about the prohibition.
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His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature.
Archive 2008-02-10
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And her inquisitor was the so-called 'Birther Bishop', Anabaptist minister Ron McCrae, who is deeply opposed to Obama, and - say critics - cynically set out to trap her.
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition
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A report was spread that an alcayde was going to land, and that he was in pursuit of the murderers of my lord, the inquisitor.
Candide
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorial powers even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience; into all conduct which had given scandal; into all actions which, though they escaped the law, might appear contrary to good morals.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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He has said he also wants to take a far more fundamental look at whether there is a case for moving towards a more continental-style inquisitorial system in terrorist cases.
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I'm also surprised at how confident my inquisitors are that I will naturally have to slam the President, which is the prospect the left seems to be anticipating with some glee.
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Like most of Latin America, Chile inherited an inquisitorial legal system from Spain.
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A wonderful message indeed, considering that Mr. Sullivan himself was the chief architect of that inquisitory foray, which he pressed unrelentingly.
What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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His body was later thrown on a dungheap, while the remains of the Inquisitor were given a ceremonial burial at the local church.
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His heavenward gaze reveals the address of the grand inquisitor.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is not Maitre Ranulph," answered her friendly inquisitor; "it is not that M'sieu 'Detricand, the vaurien.
The Battle of the Strong — Volume 3 A Romance of Two Kingdoms
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But the inquisitors 'efforts to impugn the bankers' morality were rich with the sort of feigned shock that might have been exhibited by a genteel Victorian woman confronted by an unclad piano leg.
A Return to Old-Fashioned Principles
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In the Grand Inquisitor's iconological alchemy, three questions dissolve into three obraza (that is, ‘images’ or ‘icons’), and yet the revelation bursting forth from within these images is contradiction.
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Even the inquisitorial bishops and curia officials granted that he had written a virtual summa.
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By the middle of the eighteenth century, though, these long-held beliefs were beginning to be called into question, and the European deists were the primary inquisitors.
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There were others there too, victims, witnesses, even perhaps a suspect or two, each sitting beside his respective inquisitor.
PASSION AND ILLUSION
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The Grand Inquisitor, that man of evil, destroyed men's souls, by suppressing the creative activity of their minds, and aided this brutalization of men and women by reducing them to a state of relative bestialization, like that of slaves and serfs.
LaRouche's Latest
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The Prime Minister merely looked ahead, eyes and jaw grimly fixed, and uncharacteristically ignored his inquisitor.
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the inquisitorial power of the Senate
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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He sat on the right, facing the inquisitorial gaze of a packed auditorium, under the interrogatory glare of stage lighting.
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Maimon explained to the representative he was already a rabbi and then, assuming his inquisitor was a man of enlightenment like Mendelssohn, chattered on about some of his more radical interpretations of the Talmud.
Emancipation
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Such inquiries take various forms, but the pressures seem to be increasing for them to be set up as independent external investigations with full inquisitorial powers
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In the 15th century, Joan of Arc's ecclesiastical inquisitors asked her, "Do you know yourself to be in God's grace?"
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The inquisitor may cross-question, but he will not inflict a fine; the threatener may hurl his menaces, but he will do no mischief — that is why they take it all so easily.
Memorabilia
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Questions were firing but this forum wasn't inquisitorial.
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Another objection is that, as the evidence of the witches at the trials is more or less uniform in character, it must be attributed to the publication by the Inquisitors of a questionary for the use of all judges concerned in such trials; in short, that the evidence is valueless, as it was given in answer to leading questions.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
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Other threads appeared out of nowhere, forming, with epicycles and Celtic knotting, a mesh bag that pulled him irresistibly toward the bleak globe that was the Inquisitor.
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Yet another inquisitorial voice seeks clarification: Does the poet identify himself as a post-colonial subject or not?
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Visit any office building over four stories in height and you're likely to run a gauntlet of inquisitors.
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But when the inquisitor asks for the names of backing musicians, the response ranges from total bewilderment to pleasantly surprised acknowledgement of utter ignorance.
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Nothing but love of the man brings the 'domine' a wife, and she knows that there will be inquisitorial eyes and not too kind speeches about her behaviour from the 'faithful,' while the great people, to their loss, will ignore her socially in much the same way as Queen
Dutch Life in Town and Country
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Dr. Pappas transferred to the inquisitory where you were being held.
Security
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Christ, the Grand Inquisitor, seated as judge; his familiars standing by ready with their implements of torture to fulfil his bidding; his fellow monks enthroned around him; his sign, the crucifix, towering from hell to heaven in sight of the universe; the whole heretical world, dressed in the sanbenito, helpless before him, awaiting their doom?
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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Maybe the inquisitors were confused or just thick.
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There was barely an inquisitorial question from any of them, and who cares about the ground rules?
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And then - if, that is, my inquisitor had not gathered up her children and fled my toxic presence - I would provide her with the following list:
The World According To Mom
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This is far from the first time that BBC sources have turned out to have suspect backgrounds and/or motives - either unnoticed or undeclared by our fearless BBC inquisitors.
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Dominican and qualificator of the Inquisition in Granada, though not bearing the title of inquisitor, proceeded as though thus empowered, no doubt because of the ordinary jurisdiction possessed by the bishop in matters of faith, and passed the autos of 1555 and 1558.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe.
Matt J. Rossano: The Galileo Affair: Emblematic Or Exceptional?
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He laughed nervously, buying time by saying ‘thanks’ to his inquisitor, then he managed one example.
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My friend was dragged off in his underwear to face the university inquisitors.
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His mind wouldn't leave him alone, wouldn't stop questioning him like some ghastly inquisitor off in the dark.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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if the word inquisitor had been invented he could have worn it like an old coat settling into the dark corners of its meaning with comfort.
Archive 2007-01-01
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This book, and others like it, instructed inquisitors on how to spot a witch and on which questions to ask in order to elicit the 'right' answers.
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To top it all off, the disgraced former councillor accused his inquisitors of dragging his family into the process.
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The absence of an accusatorial procedure places an inquisitorial burden upon an inspector.
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It is a necessary concomitant or consequence of this particular system which is an inquisitorial system, rather than a strict adversary system.
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From abroad this looks like a rebirth of inquisitory methods.
Libel Law Has No Place In Scientific Disputes
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He was distinguished as an inquisitor at Piacenza, but is best known for his work, "Summa casuum conscientiae, aurea armilla dicta".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The inquisitors were still working, pounding the borderman with questions.
Chosen Of The Gods
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Alright, say my more astute inquisitors, why not go the whole hog and adopt my mother's surname or even my granny's, etc etc?
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In his rise to the gestatorial chair he had made a reputation as a Catholic with an almost Lutheran passion for the grimmer reaches of moral theology; there was something of Kierkegaard in him, and something of the Grand Inquisitor as well.
A Case Of Conscience
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Having heard their confessions, the inquisitor could impose a penance or punishment, which ranged from wearing yellow crosses to indicate that a witness had been guilty of heretical activities, to being burned alive at the stake.
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Once inside, her manner changed completely, from grand inquisitor to gracious host, insisting on brewing a fresh pot of tea.
AFTERMATH
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Perion's trial, condemnation, and so on, had consumed the better part of an hour, on account of the drunkenness of one of the Inquisitors, who had vexatiously impeded these formalities by singing love-songs; but in the end it had been salutarily arranged that the Comte de la Forêt be torn apart by four horses upon the St. Richard's day ensuing.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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The inquisitor-general presided, with aid of six or seven counsellers nominated by the king; and his officers were a fiscal (or quasi prosecuting attorney), two secretaries, a receiver, two relators, a secuestrador (or escheator), and officials.
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
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In addition to the strong cast members mentioned above, standouts included Heather Engebretson as the Chinese daughter Li, bass Aubrey Allicock as the Grand Inquisitor, Karen Vuong as Zhou, a Red Guard, and Meredith Lustig, Laura Mixter and Rachael Wilson as the Andrews Sisters trio, who also operated dancing puppets, adding an additional layer of comic grotesquery to the moment.
Young and Committed to Their Causes
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I was hired on the spot because my inquisitor thought I evidenced a degree of cheekiness that would ensure my survival as her underling.
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The North has only to be patient, and you, sir, can still afford to be insolent to the Government, and asperous, as ever, to all vulgar inquisitors.
The Southern Spy. Letters on the Policy and Inauguration of the Lincoln War. Written Anonymously in Washington and Elsewhere.
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Many of my inquisitors have been young people who are seriously historically and politically clueless.
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
THE NUMBERS
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Pamiers, by Jacques Fournier in 1318, for the extirpation of the remnants of Albigensianism in the Foix region; this document is most important for the history of the Inquisition, representing as it does, and perhaps in this instance only, that particular tribunal in which the monastic inquisitor and the diocesan bishop had almost equal power, as decreed in 1312 by the Council of Vienna.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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I think I've said before that Letten and his people have a certain inquisitorial aspect to them ...
Your Right Hand Thief
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Fifth, the arbitral system he supports is inquisitorial and not adversarial.
Times, Sunday Times
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The questions weren't particularly hostile, inquisitory or, even, political.
Stafford, Hugh A.
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inquisitorial" system used by the board to judge the risk posed by an offender and replace it with an adversarial approach, in which only proven facts could be used.
Evening Standard - Home
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In his only reported speech in ‘The Grand Inquisitor,’ Christ repeats his own canonical words ‘Talitha cumi!’
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The prime minister found himself arraigned before the media inquisitors.
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The Grand Inquisitor was standing at the doorway.
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This Tribunal is enjoined to not only be fair, but also to be quick and to act inquisitorially and not adversarially.
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He jokes casually with old acquaintances and tackles each question head on, his bright brown eyes searching the faces of his inquisitors.
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For although a continuation of the bullary has just been published at Rome, containing several decrees of this congregation, there is not one that announces a fulfilment of this illusory promise, -- a promise imagined by a correspondent to French newspapers, but never given by the inquisitors themselves.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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Dolores Umbridge: [ standing with her Inquisitorial unit retentive Cho river hostage ] Get them!
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We should be careful, because the Delphic Oracle used cryptic answers that often left the inquisitor more confused than helped.
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And then – if, that is, my inquisitor had not gathered up her children and fled my toxic presence – I would provide her with the following list:
The World According To Mom | Her Bad Mother
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And we've all been agonizing for the past week about whether or not a weird political mutation called Nick Griffin is really Public Enemy Number One, having been ordained as such by the multi-culti, metrosexual, arty-farty literati and Auntie Beeb's Lord High Inquisitor David Dumblebollocks, because Griffin insists that a tribe known as the English still actually exists in England and is worthy of representation in Parliament.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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What prevents American journalists from being equally inquisitorial?
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Theologians and inquisitors attributed these offenses to the devil's work, to which socially marginal, uneducated women were seen as especially susceptible.
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I wonder if the old-time inquisitors and their "familiars" were ingenious enough to compel delicate women to stand and talk all day, and sometimes part of the night?
Without a Home
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The inquisitor was my old friend, comrade, and hero Steve Lafreniere, so it was a lot of fun.
DC's
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I need the opinion-drivers in the country to do a less inquisitorial job and to give us a hand on this thing.
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Tucker, seeing in the single tax nothing but ‘robbery,’ characterized the single taxers as future ‘inquisitors.’
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It is a cookie cutter assemblage of downward spiral answers (anger management, detox treatment, and Inquisitor style trials) all posited in a totally hypothetic context by so-called “public defenders,” who are so ineffective that after 4 months, Chad Redhouse dismissed them and is trying to be his own lawyer.
Bullying prosecutorial Tactics on Navajo Accused of Battery Met with "MOTIONS"
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A jury called the consulta de fe was convened, consisting of the Inquisitors, a representative of the bishop, and occasionally experts in theology and law.
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She shook the image from her mind, turned towards her inquisitor.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Since then, Carlton has coolly fielded questions for congressional inquisitors with wit and folksy aplomb.
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We’ve already seen similar tools, like CyberSearch (which does autocomplete from your AwesomeBar) or even Google Chrome’s autosuggest from the location bar, but Inquisitor’s good looks, smart behaviour, and nice keyboard shortcuts make it an intriguing option.
Inquisitor Adds Auto-Suggest To Your Browser’s Search Box | Lifehacker Australia
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At least I was able to satisfy my inquisitors that I wasn't a Freemason, something which evidently bothers the powers that be a good deal.
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Britain could be forced to give up its adversarial court system in favour of the inquisitorial style favoured in much of continental Europe.
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We shall see that He adopted another tone when He was properly arraigned before the assembled Sanhedrim; but in this more private, injudicial, inquisitorial interview, with one scathing rebuke He tore away the cloak of assumed ignorance with which this crafty man veiled his sinister purpose, and laid His secret thoughts open to the gaze of all.
Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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During the month of May seven persons were appointed to examine, my papers, and among the inquisitorial septemvirate were two men well known and filling high situations.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Inquisitorial system has deprived this kingdom by the total expulsion of the Jews, the conquered Moors and the baptized Moorish, we add about
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880
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You were kept under drugs most of the way to help you rest -- they'd knocked you around quite a bit in the inquisitory.
Security
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In The Brothers Karamazov, he has his Grand Inquisitor declaim: ‘Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom’.
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Every worshiper was a zealot; every ecclesiast an inquisitor.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
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With almost no more native and very few foreign Protestants to prosecute, inquisitors began to target other sorts of religious 'deviants'.
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German jurists term the inquisitorial proceeding; it became the duty of the Echevin to denounce the ‘Leumund,’ or manifest evil fame, to the secret tribunal. if the Echevins and the Freygraff were satisfied with the presentment, either from their own knowledge, or from the information of their compeer, the offender was said to be
Anne of Geierstein
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An offside room had been rigged as an inquisitory.
Operation Luna
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The next hearings will be structured differently in order to minimize the inquisitorial atmosphere.
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German jurists term the inquisitorial proceeding; it became the duty of the Echevin to denounce the ‘Leumund,’ or manifest evil fame, to the secret tribunal. if the Echevins and the Freygraff were satisfied with the presentment, either from their own knowledge, or from the information of their compeer, the offender was said to be
Anne of Geierstein
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Opponents of implementing the inquisitorial system argue the efficacy of the adversarial system.
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The atmosphere here is more inquisitorial than at the other meeting.
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Broad investigatory, inquisitory and subpoena powers were given to that body of citizens drawn from the community; like powers were not intended to be in the hands of the prosecutors of crime.
Is That Legal?: February 2007 Archives
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I can therefore make the submission that the pre-trial procedure (commencing from the state collecting the facts, to the advanced disclosure, culminating with plea bargaining) in the Hong Kong Magistrate is inquisitorial.
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As a result of convergent evolution of torture practices, it seems that various figures interested in coerced confessions — Spanish Inquisitors, People’s Liberation Army, Khmer Rouge, etc. — all hit upon the basic idea behind waterboarding.
Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition
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My inquisitor was a tall man in an ulster, with a green felt hat on his small head.
Mr. Standfast
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She drew farther back into her corner of the sofa, waving him to a seat beside her, as though to bring his inquisitory eyes on a level where her own could command them; but he stood where he was, unconscious of her gesture, and merely repeating: "Tell me.
The Fruit of the Tree
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The next hearings will be structured differently in order to minimize the inquisitorial atmosphere.
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the press was inquisitorial to the point of antagonism
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The only notable difference was the fact that this girl had hazel eyes while the inquisitor girl had cold blue.
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That all sounds great, say his inquisitors, who must be exchanging puzzled glances and looking incredulous during this, but it's not really you, is it?
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Rowley's attorney, Senior Counsel Gilbert Peterson, sought the intervention of the enquiry's chairman, Prof John Uff. Saying he thought Goddard was asking "a very proper question", Uff reminded Peterson that this is a public enquiry "which is" inquisitorial ".
TrinidadExpress Today's News
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Then he swung with a two-handed blow, slamming the axehead through the Inquisitor's neck and into the wood behind.
Mistborn
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As Caiidide was reviewing the troops, the old woman arrived to warn him that a Spanish ship had entered the harbor; officials had debarked to arrest the murderer of the Grand Inquisitor.
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SECRET, because the secret was absolutely necessary to the preservation of their office, so do the Inquisitors in partibus falsify and illude without the least scruple of conscience, in order to put the people of this country off their guard.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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He was at this time a significant figure — tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly — with nice, smooth, closely-cropped side whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears.
The Financier
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For these kindly inquisitors, all romantic beginnings set the full context for everything that followed (never mind what really happened as the couple came to truly know each other).
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear … and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
Flashman and the angel of the lord
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The next hearings will be structured differently in order to minimize the inquisitorial atmosphere.
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According to the function and relation of the prosecutor and the defender, the model of investigation can be put into the Accusatorial Model and Inquisitorial Model.
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‘The answer is no, I am not interested, and it gets very tiresome to have it brought up all the time,’ Andrew told a cowering gang of inquisitors.
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Milton had postponed his poem, in 1641, till "the land had once enfranchished herself from this impertinent yoke of prelatry, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.
Milton
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Standing beside the noblemen were the obligators — regular ones in gray, Inquisitors in black.
Mistborn
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And I listened with interest while Mr. Harland put his former college friend through a kind of inquisitorial examination as to what he had been doing and where he had been journeying since they last met.
The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
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Continental procedure is quite different, as it is inquisitorial rather than accusatorial.
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He completely nailed his inquisitors, so much so, that they've pulled the testimony off the Congressional website.
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I fully expected to find someone broken by inquisitorial pressure.
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a practical police force with true inquisitorial talents
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She was whisked back to her North Yorkshire home - leaving those who had packed the public gallery none the wiser after she repeatedly told inquisitors she could not remember or had no knowledge of what they asked.
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He never interrogated anyone in inquisitorial fashion about their beliefs and condemned them, but was able to look into their hearts.
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On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe.
Matt J. Rossano: The Galileo Affair: Emblematic Or Exceptional?
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But in the light of such deafening coolness, the inner inquisitor is easily drowned out.
Kevin's Review: Iron Man - Raising The Bar, Big Time « FirstShowing.net
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Allen said BP and the government are working closely together, with the government holding veto power and adopting an "inquisitorial" stand toward the company's ideas.
WRAL.com Top Stories
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Swinging his power sword and shouting to guardsmen, the Inquisitor pounded after the fugitive alien.
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The committee system, which was designed to be inquisitorial and to scrutinise ministers, was neutered.
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The lead Inquisitor still carried the axelike weapon, its edge coated with blood.
Mistborn
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He was a huge man with the innocent eyes of a deer, and he was almost weeping as he defended himself against Bobby's inquisitorial arguments.
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(How, after all, could I otherwise sustain my insistence that even the European legal systems we conventionally call "inquisitorial" are solidly adversary in my sense of the word?)
Legal Ethics Forum
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The Inquisitor was advancing in the vanguard of a squad of armoured imperial guardsmen.
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According to the function and relation of the prosecutor and the defender, the model of investigation can be put into the Accusatorial Model and Inquisitorial Model.
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City, a Friar Minor, an Inquisitor after matters of Faith; who, although he laboured greatly to seeme a sanctified man, and an earnest affecter of Christian Religion, (as all of them appeare to be in outward shew;) yet he was a much better Inquisitor after them that had their purses plenteously stored with money, then of such as were slenderly grounded in Faith.
The Decameron
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Almost all the demonologies of the 1400s and early 1500s were written by inquisitors, who often refer to witch trials that they or other inquisitors conducted.
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These general committees, which were a kind of inquisitorial courts, had not then been established; and we find that the king, in a former declaration. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell
