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• The British version depends partly on the audience's playing along with the show's somber, inquisitorial mood.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Like most of Latin America, Chile inherited an inquisitorial legal system from Spain.
• Even the inquisitorial bishops and curia officials granted that he had written a virtual summa.
• the inquisitorial power of the Senate
• He sat on the right, facing the inquisitorial gaze of a packed auditorium, under the interrogatory glare of stage lighting.
• 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
• Questions were firing but this forum wasn't inquisitorial.