inquisitional

And when my wife complained to the archdiocese of Central California, she was treated with some type of an inquisitional-type arrangement and really made her so uncomfortable.

Op-Ed: In Ireland, Pope's Letter Falls Short 2010

Both focus on supernatural beliefs and practices and are based on extensive work in the vast collection of inquisitional records, which document the prosecution of curanderos during the three centuries of Spanish rule in Mexico. 12 All of these works form an indispensable background and basis for the present study, as does much of the excellent, and much more extensive, medical historiography done on early modern Europe cited throughout this book.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Guatemala and Chile are notable examples of countries that have reformed their criminal justice system -- moving away from archaic inquisitional models to embrace more adversarial elements.

David Perez: Mexico's War on Impunity 2010

Then, there is the country's descent into a bloody and inquisitional autocracy.

Michael Brenner: Obama Will Not Strike Iran 2010

Participant gets involved in films that would have sent a '40s anti-Communist Congressional investigator into paroxysms of inquisitional delight, back in the day - and did, in the case of Good Night and Good Luck, about the clash between broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and Red-baiting capo Joe McCarthy - on topics ranging from Darfur to covert ops, from global warming to corporate farming.

Karen Stabiner: Small Good News: Hollywood Acts Up 2009

And I don't want to see an America where people like Zumbo and Dave Petzal are treated to an inquisitional blacklisting.

ZUMBOMANIA, PART II: David E. 2007

Just about every page suggests that rigorous self-examination was a lifelong habit and that the tennis champion and social activist's self-confessed "aloofness" was the outer shell of a sometimes questing, sometimes inquisitional, always demanding inner life.

Advantage, Mr. Ashe 2008

A most important point made by the Spanish scholars is that the inquisitional courts of the Church were both more just and more lenient than civil courts and religious courts elsewhere in Europe at the time.

A New Look At the Spanish Inquisition de Brantigny........................ 2008

A most important point made by the Spanish scholars is that the inquisitional courts of the Church were both more just and more lenient than civil courts and religious courts elsewhere in Europe at the time.

Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008

The inquisitional proceedings, as they are termed by the German jurists, are identical with our ancient presentments.

Anne of Geierstein 2008