St Peter Martyr was an inquisitor whose job was to exterminate the Cathar heresy in southern France in the 13th century.
Asked after the draw if she thought she had a better chance against Williams on grass or clay, Sharapova bridled and sidestepped, fixing the inquisitor with her hardest stare.
Handcuffed to a chair, he was subjected to about 50 interrogation sessions, many of which started with the question: "What is your occupation?" When Mr Ai replied that he was an artist, his inquisitor would pound the table and say, "Anyone can call himself an artist.
Awkwardly, Britain's central bank has gone from inquisitor to a possible protagonist in the latest episode of financial-market chicanery.Regulators globally have spent months investigating whether forex traders at big banks rigged global currency markets, the world's largest, where turnover is over $5 trillion a day.
During her confirmation as solicitor-general, she agreed with a Republican inquisitor that America is at war with terrorists, and she appeared to agree that an al-Qaeda financier captured in, say, the Philippines, can be held indefinitely as an enemy combatant.
He looked very disappointed and said, "Well, then what good are you if you can't tell me what I should do"?I was a little offended at the time, but after seeing this CNBC clip, I feel more sympathetic to my inquisitor.
Many of his leading staffers have been with him for decades, but he also has a talent for picking rising stars: David Boies, Bill Gates's inquisitor in the Microsoft case, and Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.The third reason for his enduring influence is tradition.
On August 17th, the day before the family holiday, the president sat in the White House Map Room and spent more than four hours testifying by closed-circuit television before a grand jury and its grand inquisitor, independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
The procurador acts as an inquisitor for alleged administrative misdemeanours.
Ms Wark, it turned out, was a woman of many parts: fearless public-interest inquisitor on the telly, old friend of the first minister, founder of a company chosen by BBC Scotland to make a film about the new parliament building, and member of the panel that had originally selected its design.
The trial was often a battle of wits between the inquisitor and the accused.
