inquisitorial

Examples of adversarial

adversarial
The supplier alone prepares the proposal and face-to-face meetings are very late and adversarial.
Once again, many of the concerns identified by the unions would appear to be better addressed by a no-fault system than by an adversarial system.
It is difficult, however, to escape connotations of an adversarial kind.
External factors include the sources of funding, ally and adversarial relationships, the influence of politicians, public perception, and the media.
While the criminal justice process is adversarial, primarily offender focused and retributive in character, restorative approaches will make only marginal gains for justice.
Adversarial relations have dominated to date, but obligational relations built on trust are beginning to develop.
Should they be built on contracts which are adversarial or obligational?
This system is typified as adversarial because of the oppositional relationship between the lawyers for the plaintiff and for the defendant in the trial.
The competence models originate in the study of educational methods for teaching adversarial communication in the court, parliament, and temple.
In virtually every other case, though, abatement costs have been positive, thereby making pollution control adversarial to one degree or another.
The new adversarial system not only created the role of the expert witness, but also had a dramatic effect on its deployment in the courtroom.
The network is robust under adversarial deletion of vertices and edges and actively reconnects itself.
Thus, an adversarial relationship exists between the two cultures that is clearly evident in language.
Are the scientific disagreements created or merely exposed by adversarial proceedings?
More encouraging still is the emergence of a new strategy in collaborative family practice, begun by attorneys who felt uncomfor table with adversarial dispute resolutions.
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