(n.) An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions.
(n.) One whose official duty it is to examine and inquire, as coroners, sheriffs, etc.
(n.) A member of the Court of Inquisition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dramatic rise in profile of the committee system in recent times has too often laid bare the disappointing calibre of MP inquisitors, with the spy chiefs' appearance before the intelligence and security committee this week being a case in point.
(2) Though the party has done the running, his teenage inquisitor has a point: the most recent poll, by Populus, puts the Lib Dems on 18%.
(3) His inquisitors tried to eke out what Cain would have done had he been in the White House but to little avail.
(4) It was Dimbleby, though, who became Griffin's chief inquisitor, holding him to account on the detail of his past.
(5) He craved a smile as assiduously as he would avoid a left hook, and so natural was he in front of a microphone that he often reduced his inquisitors to silent witnesses, most famously Michael Parkinson, whose interviews with Ali are the stuff of legend.
(6) General elections, however, were the time when all the grand inquisitor's talents as cross-examiner came on full display, when the televsion public saw "the scowling, frowning, glowering" Robin Day "with those cruel glasses" (Frankie Howerd's description), as well as the relieving shafts of humour.
(7) Photograph: Farmers Daily China “Dostoyevsky wrote in The Grand Inquisitor about ruling with magic, mystery and the sword.
(8) She highlighted a number of “missed opportunities” by HMRC inquisitors to examine a list of 6,800 UK-related accounts provided in 2010 by French authorities.
(9) It now transpired that a security system operated by DPS was trained on the office of one of its chief inquisitors and that disciplinary action (proposed dismissal) was being taken against an informant, ostensibly on another basis.
(10) But now, with Frosty dead, and the great inquisitors – Paxo, Humphrys – nearing retirement?
(11) Earlier in the evening arch rival Channel 4 News, which appeared to revel in the great Newsnight inquisitor’s farewell by sending Jon Snow to interview Paxman and posting a YouTube video with its own long-serving anchor singing “Paxo, please don’t go!” , drew 500,000 viewers and a 2.6% share from 7pm.
(12) Cruddas dismisses journalists' boasts about the ruthlessness of television's inquisitors as so much wind.
(13) They will face a tag-team of inquisitors: Field’s work and pensions select committee, and the business, innovation and skills (BIS) committee chaired by Iain “Leading” Wright.
(14) I am the one who has been there in the international summits, he told his inquisitor.
(15) Having regard to his current position, the political sensitivity of these investigations are self-evident, and they underscore the particular importance of the perceived political impartiality of the inquisitor,” the AWU’s lawyers wrote.
(16) But the Commons defence committee concludes: "We regard parliament's role as one of a strategic inquisitor on military deployments … We conclude that, wherever possible, parliament should be consulted prior to the commencement of military action but recognise that this will not always be possible such as when urgent action is required."
(17) It is no secret that some of his US inquisitors see the hearings in Washington on Wednesday as an opportunity to subject Toyoda to a dressing down in the full glare of the world's media.
(18) They did not much feel like talking and many of their inquisitors did not much feel like asking.
(19) How on earth do you interview Jeremy Paxman , the grand inquisitor, the most-feared interrogator of the age, once voted the fourth scariest person on television?
(20) Watch the compilation of Paxo's greatest hits and they consist chiefly of the grand inquisitor shredding politicians.
Questioner
Definition:
(n.) One who asks questions; an inquirer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(4) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(5) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(8) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(12) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(13) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(14) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(15) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(16) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(17) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(18) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(19) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(20) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?