| Visit any office building over four stories in height and you're likely to run a gauntlet of inquisitors. |
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| At least I was able to satisfy my inquisitors that I wasn't a Freemason, something which evidently bothers the powers that be a good deal. |
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| To top it all off, the disgraced former councillor accused his inquisitors of dragging his family into the process. |
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| For these kindly inquisitors, all romantic beginnings set the full context for everything that followed. |
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| It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles. |
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| He completely nailed his inquisitors, so much so, that they've pulled the testimony off the Congressional website. |
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| My friend was dragged off in his underwear to face the university inquisitors. |
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| And to cap it all, he evades his moral inquisitors with the ease of the true lounge lizard. |
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| He jokes casually with old acquaintances and tackles each question head on, his bright brown eyes searching the faces of his inquisitors. |
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| Many of my inquisitors have been young people who are seriously historically and politically clueless. |
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| Alright, say my more astute inquisitors, why not go the whole hog and adopt my mother's surname or even my granny's, etc etc? |
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| He suspected, also, that it wasn't Strauss who'd raised it but the inquisitors in front of him. |
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| For the self-appointed inquisitors of internet, it is always easier to accuse than seriously to inquire. |
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| Almost all the demonologies of the 1400s and early 1500s were written by inquisitors, who often refer to witch trials that they or other inquisitors conducted. |
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| Because of their conclusions very often being the contrary tailor-made ideas conveyed by the inquisitors. |
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| Since then, French political inquisitors have been the factor that has forced you to give way. |
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| The religion of antiracism has its dogmas, its priests, its inquisitors and its witch-hunts. |
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| It appoints Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger, as inquisitors to root out witchcraft in Germany. |
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| That all sounds great, say his inquisitors, who must be exchanging puzzled glances and looking incredulous during this, but it's not really you, is it? |
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| Theologians and inquisitors attributed these offenses to the devil's work, to which socially marginal, uneducated women were seen as especially susceptible. |
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| This book, and others like it, instructed inquisitors on how to spot a witch and on which questions to ask in order to elicit the 'right' answers. |
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| Evidently determined to put his inquisitors in their place, he gave them a worthless answer. |
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| By the middle of the eighteenth century, though, these long-held beliefs were beginning to be called into question, and the European deists were the primary inquisitors. |
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| In 1454, the Supreme Tribunal of the three state inquisitors was established to guard the security of the republic. |
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| In about 1332, Pope John XXII sent his inquisitors into the territory of the Vaudois to execute the laws of the Inquisition against these believers. |
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| The boundary is unstable: the men in black become in turn inquisitors and those investigated? observers and those observed? witnesses or authors of acts of life? of love? of cruelty. |
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| Mr Brown heaped blame on Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana's governor, and another Democrat, New Orleans's mayor, Ray Nagin. That went down well with his Republican inquisitors. |
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| Regrettably for the inquisitors, no evidence has yet been uncovered: no mutilated bodies, maimed survivors, photographs, first-hand accounts, or authoritative reports documenting specific cases with names, dates and places. |
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| This may be a frustratingly ad hoc approach for those who yearn for the certainty and authority offered by the grand inquisitors of high finance. |
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| The bull gave the monarchs exclusive authority to name the inquisitors. |
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| But after grand inquisitors Phil Schofield and Holly Willoughby ruthlessly forced him to regurgitate Number 10's current PR-puff list, Call Me Dave came into his own. |
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| Who'd have thought it would be Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton who'd cast themselves in the role of grand inquisitors and kick Katona around for 10 minutes. |
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| Inquisitors sought to reconcile to the Holy Mother Church those whose writings or behaviours had cast their orthodoxy into doubt. |
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| Spanish Inquisitors viewed witchcraft as a problem that could be cured simply through confession. |
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| It may well have been these Inquisitors who, in 1543, decided that Mercator was eminent enough to be sacrificed. |
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| The fact that she had begged him not to leave the conapt just now, expressing fear for his life with the Inquisitors at large, had likely contributed to those thoughts. |
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| The letter was addressed to the Inquisitors of Carcassonne and Toulouse. |
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| Inquisitors often followed lukewarmly, as they did over Judaizers. |
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