An offside room had been rigged as an inquisitory. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
From abroad this looks like a rebirth of inquisitory methods. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Dr. Pappas transferred to the inquisitory where you were being held. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
The questions weren't particularly hostile, inquisitory or, even, political. From Wordnik.com. [Stafford, Hugh A.] Reference
In short, an inquisitory body was appointed by the center of the great government — may her glory increase! — and was sent to this land, taking up its abode directly in the home of one of the plaintiffs. From Wordnik.com. [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference
Modern and commodious itself, it looked from its balcony at serried and mismatched and quaintly-named haunts of old provincial, of sedately passive rather than confidently eager, traffic; but this made, among us, for much harmless inquisitory life -- while we were fairly assaulted, at home, by the scale and some of the striking notes of our fine modernity. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
10) (b) "We also conclude that a reasonable person would apprehend bias in these circumstances based on the manner in which the chambers judge conducting the hearing: the inquisitory method used was unfair to both parties, as neither was prepared to give evidence;" (Tab 3 p. 3 para. From Wordnik.com. [Vive Le Canada - All Stories - Vive Le Canada] Reference
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