What's the difference between accusatorial and inquisitorial?

Accusatorial


Definition:

  • (a.) Accusatory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the voices of schizophrenic patients are predominantly disparaging, call approbrious names, or are accusatory.
  • (2) Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of the sexism Page has encountered is that pretty much as soon as she came to international attention in Juno, rumours started about her sexuality, simply because, to quote one well-known accusatory blogpost in 2008, "she certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy and if you Google 'Ellen Page boyfriend' , not a whole lot comes up."
  • (3) Sisi pointed an accusatory finger at Italy in an unrelated case involving an Egyptian citizen and Italian resident named Adel Moad, who is alleged to have disappeared in Italy last year.
  • (4) However, the government’s constant attempts to paint honest people – like low-paid workers relying on tax credits and universal credit – as ‘skivers’ is creating a hostile and accusatory environment.
  • (5) It's a very troubling scene with such accusatory positioning.
  • (6) Longitudinal pharmacotherapeutic data from 58 schizophrenic patients suggest that the emergence of a dysphoric state, characterized by a combination of anxiety, depression, and accusatoriness, early in the course of neuroleptic treatment augurs poor therapeutic outcome and is associated with an unfavorable prognostic classification and a tendency for autonomic arousal to increase with treatment from a drug-free base line somewhat higher than normal.
  • (7) Stop pretending you are not doing what you are doing.” “Russia,” she went on in similarly accusatory mode, “signs agreements, then does everything within its power to undermine them.
  • (8) Even when his words grow angry and accusatory, his face remains impassive.
  • (9) The evidence and accusatory theory do not justify a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
  • (10) Successful management requires early suspicion and prompt recognition as well as establishment of non-accusatory relationship with the primary physician.
  • (11) There is no empathy at all in the system; it is all accusatory."
  • (12) Left to my own devices, I'd probably still be prodding laboriously at my old grey Nokia and answering it with my signature "charm" – similar to when people receive ransom calls from kidnappers in films, only more tense, suspicious and accusatory.
  • (13) Buckingham Palace put out a denial,” Ferguson told NBC’s Today, “and we stand by that denial.” “I won’t stand by – because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you – and not support him so publicly, because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations,” said Ferguson, who added: “The American people know my integrity.” She said that given Andrew’s qualities “as a great father, and a humongously good man, and all the works he does for Britain,” she would not “let him have his character defamed to this level”.
  • (14) Accusatory "you" statements were rated as more aversive and evoked stronger antagonistic response inclinations than assertive "I" statements.
  • (15) One third of the children were seen as "babies", with unnecessarily over-protective attitudes on the part of their parents, and one third as "scapegoats", with accusatory attitudes from their mother and father.
  • (16) "At some point I was asking something about that, being friends, but not in an accusatory way.
  • (17) He criticizes the way in which the document was compiled, since in his opinion the three psychiatric experts who consigned it interpreted in an accusatory manner the subjective data of their examination.
  • (18) The real goal of his catty, three-page response, he says, was to embarrass a bureaucratic agency with humor – he pointed out its redaction of vital words defining the proper usage of Section 701 in its accusatory letter, and how it led the FBI to call Wikipedia's use of its seal "problematic".
  • (19) Related images and accusatory comments about leaders and the system [of government] must be deleted without exception,” said the instructions, according to CDT .
  • (20) While these symptoms are not uncommon in non-adoptive clinic cases, the authors note an emphasis on the adoptive parents' disappointment and accusatory attitude to toward these children as well as high incidence of symptoms indicative of interpersonal difficulties and problems in developing solid parental attachments and self-control.

Inquisitorial


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the late 1960s I applied for a job at the BBC in Glasgow and was, as people at the BBC used to say, "boarded", meaning that I went to be interviewed by six or seven executives who sat at a long table facing me rather like the inquisitorial Roundheads in the William Frederick Yeames painting And When Did You Last See Your Father?
  • (2) That was followed by reference to the need for privacy and libel law reform via "another mechanism for swift resolution of privacy and small libel-type issues" that could operate as an "inquisitorial regime, which can be done without lawyers" and that contained "some mechanism for members of the public to be able to challenge decisions" made by newspapers.
  • (3) Bethanie Mattek-Sands criticises Wimbledon's 'excessive' clothing rule Read more This year, however, the all-white policy was felt to have verged on the inquisitorial as it ruled on bra straps and visible underwear .
  • (4) The inquest was an inquisitorial process to find a cause of death; the trial an adversarial process to apportion criminal blame.
  • (5) The father of Jaafar Majeed Muhyi applied for a judicial review of the Ministry of Defence’s decision not to hold an “inquisitorial” inquiry into his son’s death in May 2003.
  • (6) British courts have an adversarial rather than an inquisitorial approach to discovering the truth.
  • (7) One way to combat this, he believed, was to end the adversarial system in the courts, which he saw as "an invitation to the police to commit perjury" and to replace it with an "infinitely preferable" European inquisitorial system.
  • (8) Instead of a sober inquisitorial process it descended into an adversarial attack, and instead of a search for the truth we witnessed taxpayer-funded lawyers on a frolic, cross-examining police officers as if they were on trial.” King cited the cross-examination of a senior police commander as an example of lawyers “twisting words” and grandstanding to the media.
  • (9) That disparity is due to the fact that the continent’s inquisitorial system employs far more judges per head of population and consequently spends far less on legal aid for defendants and claimants than the UK adversarial system.
  • (10) The procedures for providing courts with expert scientific evidence under the adversarial and inquisitorial systems are reviewed with special reference to the role of the Home Office as the principal purveyor of such evidence at English law.
  • (11) The IPC would, he added, be "inquisitorial rather than adversarial".
  • (12) His inquisitorial attitude toward his Tory opponents did not stop him from voting with them, as he did over gun control in 1996.
  • (13) Britain’s common law procedures are significantly different from most of the continent, where judge-led inquisitorial systems are dominant.