interrogation

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It flashed through his mind as he spoke that his interrogation was the echo of one put to him by his father before he left Cornwall The truth is, that Thalassa and I left the house together that night before it happened.

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  1. The act of questioning; examination by questions. Pray you, spare me Further interrogation, which boots nothing Except to turn a trial to debate. Byron.
  2. A question put; an inquiry. How demurely soever such men may pretend to sanctity, that interrogation of God presses hard upon them. Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Government of the Tongue.
  3. Any proposition doubted or called in question in the disputations with which, during the prevalence of scholasticism, boys were exercised in the schools.
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  • Additionally, the Intelligence Science Board recommended that ahead of the deployment of the interrogation teams, senior administration officials should decide whether or not the substance of the interrogation ought to be used as evidence for a criminal prosecution. —  AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
  • Bush administration because of the enhanced interrogation, the secret prison programs, and the eavesdropping programs. ... —  Hotline On Call
  • After a thorough interrogation, the panel make a final decision on whether the theory is worth keeping. —  TV Scoop
  • It further provides that once an individual asks for counsel during a custodial interrogation, the police should not ask any more questions. —  Colloquy : Northwestern University Law Review
  • The perceived reliance on Fifth Amendment jurisprudence in that opinion has led some members of the Court to suggest that Fifth and Sixth Amendment protections during interrogation are the same, and that both should be waivable outside the presence of counsel. —  Colloquy : Northwestern University Law Review
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  1. = French interrogation = Provencal interrogatio, enterrogacio = Spanish interrogacion = Portuguese interrogação—Italian interrogazione, from Latin interrogatio (n.), a questioning, a question, from interrogare, question: see interrogate.
 

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