Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.

His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.

Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??

It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??

Everywhere I went in Formosa I asked the same question.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;

Another question that was asked of the assessors was whether they favored the assessment of movable property at its location or at the residence of the owner.

From Gottingen ( 1801 ) where he stayed for 10 days, he wrote, `` The first question asked everywhere is about galvanism.

Was a question that had to be asked long before they saw Paree.

Fleet asked the same question about Bridget, and Lizzie pointed out that as far as she knew Bridget had gone up to her room before her father's murder and came down when she called her.

I asked a silly question: `` You've no idea where your husband could be, now ''??

-- The Anne Arundel county school superintendent has asked that the Board of Education return to the practice of recording its proceedings mechanically so that there will be no more question about who said what.

The question might be asked: `` Don't the managements of the heavy-electrical-goods manufacturers know these facts??

and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover??

For example, he asked students to question if Biblical miracles were literal and suggested that all people are part of God.

It was at this show that Steve Jobs asked Gursharan Sidhu a seemingly innocuous question, " Why has networking not caught on?

The duo nicknamed her " Diarrhea " but once said she was cool after she asked President Clinton a pertinent question during a school assembly.

The over-riding and oft-asked question asked in the book of Job is, " Why do the righteous suffer?

First, the question is asked on formula.

Otherwise, the question is asked on, i. e. the first variable is assumed to be 0.

For American Christians, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics notes: " The GSS ... has asked a born-again question on three occasions ... ' Would you say you have been ' born again ' or have had a ' born-again ' experience?

One question much asked – both then and long afterward – is why did Emperor Menelik fail to follow up his victory and drive the routed Italians out of their colony?

when John the Baptist was in prison two of his disciples asked Jesus a question on his behalf: " Are you the one to come after me or shall we wait for another?

Cryptography professor Arjen Lenstra observed that " Last time, it took nine years for us to generalize from a special to a nonspecial, hard-to-factor number " and when asked whether 1024-bit RSA keys are dead, said: " The answer to that question is an unqualified yes.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

And now there was some question as to his continued residence there.

In a few months the Duke was to be the center of a controversy of some significance on the touchy question of the Protestant Succession.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.

Another question that arose was the nature of the dialogue itself.

I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??

It was not a discourteous question, Lawrence decided.

He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.

so that the rest of the house stayed open, though there was a question as to whether it was hotter or cooler that way.