What's the difference between inquiry and inquisitorious?
Inquiry
Definition:
(n.) The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
(n.) Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries.
Example Sentences:
(1) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(2) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(3) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(4) At the end of the year, however, Hugh Davies QC, deputy counsel to the inquiry, also resigned.
(5) When faced with a big dilemma, the time-honoured tradition of politicians is to order an inquiry, and that is what Browne expects.
(6) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(7) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(8) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
(9) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(10) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
(11) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(12) It called for an independent, international inquiry as the only way to achieve full accountability, ahead of the March deadline for the Sri Lankan government to report back to the UN Human Rights Council.
(13) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(14) The force is liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service over its inquiry.
(15) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(16) Black physicians should assume a lead role in these inquiries and in the prevention and treatment of violence, specifically black-on-black murder.
(17) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
(18) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(19) Corbyn’s planned apology attempts to pre-empt the findings of the long-delayed Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.
(20) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
Inquisitorious
Definition:
(a.) Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial.
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.