Galileo's fate was very different from that of other scientists at the time of the Inquisition.
For others he is more like Torquemada, the infamous head of the Spanish Inquisition.
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After his second (four-hour) inquisition of the week, he seemed to have won his case.
There was a time when Christians believed in the Inquisition, in killing Christian non-conformists, Muslims and Jews.
It's a safe bet that the Chinese told him they could do without an an international inquisition.
His opposition to torture included the process of water-boarding, a technique McCain said began during the Spanish Inquisition.
We usually associate heretic with religion, namely, the Roman Catholic Church: Inquisition, burning people at the stake, etc.
Paulson escapes a Congressional inquisition by having out-of-town plans during Thursday's hearing, but Bernanke isn't quite as lucky.
The tortures inflicted on victims of the Holy Inquisition for heresy from the Middle Ages onwards are legendary.
With the Inquisition frequently breathing down her neck and excommunications flying to and fro, it was no easy endeavour.
Back in New York, a chastened Amar'e Stoudemire faced his media inquisition, wearing a gray T-shirt that read MARKED MAN.
The work attracted the attention of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - formally known as the Inquisition.
"I think the American people, in their essential fairness, understand the difference between an investigation and an inquisition, " Bryan said.
For a few days this year the world's media focused an intense spotlight on the drama of a modern-day inquisition.
As a result, she is accused by the Inquisition of having heretical Jewish tendencies and shut away in a church dungeon.
Had the White House known the truth, the whole inquisition may have come to a screeching halt virtually at its outset.
Netanyahu's own lesson from the Spanish Inquisition is that for Jews, assimilation is as much of a utopian path as socialism.
Spain by the Inquisition that brought many of the heretics to Sarajevo.
The Inquisition was a public recognition of the failure of the priests.
And so followed a slew of inquisition from friends and parents.
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This meant the two places where the Inquisition was most active were also the places where there was the least hysteria about witches.
So, instead of affirmatively defending the inquisition, Goldberg goes into great detail describing how much more awful other anti-Jewish violence in Spain was.
BioWare veteran Mark Darrah announced in a blog post today that the next Dragon Age game is titled Dragon Age III: Inquisition.
The waiting room is usually cold and sterile, enlivened by just a few company trinkets to divert your focus from your impending 30-minute inquisition.
Depending upon whom you ask, Revkin is either the keeper of the truth on climate change or the scribe of the global warming inquisition.
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When the then-Cardinal Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions discriminated against children, Ms Fernandez said his tone harked back to "medieval times and the Inquisition".
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In Ahmadiyah's case the fatwas have also prompted another Suharto-era creature, the Co-ordinating Board for Monitoring Mystical Beliefs in Society, to launch an inquisition.
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The inquisition of the world's most high-profile, richest cricketers had begun in right earnest with one channel unsparingly highlighting the "villains" of the team.
Tens of thousands of Marranos were tortured by the Spanish Inquisition.
Netanyahu's findings led to his revolutionary conclusion that the Spanish Inquisition did not target the Jews as a religion, but the Jews as a race.
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