Sentence examples for inquisition from inspiring English sources

The reaction of the Australian media – while understandable – leaves a bad taste in the mouth after their week-long inquisition into whether Contador's shoulder injury is simply a bluff.

This wasn't an inquisition in terms of arguments forwarded and rigorously scrutinised.

Then, just before stumps were to be drawn at the final inquisition, someone whistled a final beamer at his deceptively angelic little Tasmanian head.

We once had the Inquisition here (in fact, it was headquartered very near to where I live).

At the same time, filling in the forms has become more onerous: what started as a short questionnaire about who lived where has turned into an inquisition about everything from toilet and car ownership to race and religion.

He and his tutor, Dr Pangloss, are made scapegoats by the Inquisition.

The congressional inquisition on AIG may blow over.

They have summoned him back for another inquisition next week.Randall Bradford moved to Arkansas last year from Texas to supervise the state government's technology, especially the Arkansas Administrative Statewide Information System (AASIS), a high-tech accounting system.

Dozens of top French businessmen and politicians have been investigated, arrested or convicted; only constitutional immunity keeps the president himself from a judicial inquisition; and Alfred Sirven, a bank-robber turned senior executive of the former state oil company, Elf Aquitaine, is threatening from his prison cell to spill secrets that could, he claims, "topple the republic 20 times over".

No wonder, after months of scandal and inquisition first into campaign finance and then into the president's sexual antics the Democrats are celebrating.

And both are open to wide interpretation, as they should be, to meet the changing demands of modernity.Christians hardly need reminding that for centuries they fought bloody wars over competing versions of their faith, and bodies such as the Catholic Inquisition testify to the cruelties that can flow, within any religion, from a dogmatic determination to impose a particular set of beliefs.