Grattan supported the government for a time after 1782, and spoke and voted for the repressive legislation that followed the Whiteboy violence in 1785 ; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform resulting in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.

The constitution of Grattan's parliament offered no security, as the differences over the regency question had made evident that in matters of imperial interest the policy of the Irish parliament and that of Great Britain would be in agreement.

Hely-Hutchinson supported the opposition on the regency question in 1788, and one of his last votes in the House was in favor of parliamentary reform.

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

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

`` 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.

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

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 ''??

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

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.

He said that the propriety or impropriety of such a gathering was a question that was to be settled by every man in accordance with the convictions of private judgments.

This question might be settled by comparing the measurement of the actual circumference with the dimensions noted, presumably in Brumidi's hand, above the various sections of his long preparatory drawing, which has been kept.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.

Although the 1987 decision settled the question of the scientific name of the genus, the common name " amaryllis " continues to be used differently.

The number of elements in the lanthanides had been a question that was very far from being settled by the chemists of the early 20th Century.

Former US president Jimmy Carter made a visit to Pyongyang in June 1994 in which he met with Kim and returned proclaiming that he had settled the nuclear question.

Under the Covenant of the League of Nations, all League members agreed that where there was a dispute between states which they " recognize to be suitable for submission to arbitration and which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy ", the matter would be submitted to the Court for arbitration, with suitable disputes being over the interpretation of an international treaty, a question on international law, the validity of facts which, if true, would breach international obligations and the nature of any reparations to be made for breaching international obligations.

However, the issue is not finally settled, for each of these experimental tests has left open at least one loophole by which it is possible to question the validity of the results.

The question of harm to biological systems due to low-power ionizing and non-ionization radiation is not settled.

This interpretation was coming under increasing challenge by the time new excavations in 1972 – 73 settled the question.

The question as to when the Gemara was finally put into its present form is not settled among modern scholars.

The question was settled by the Connecticut Compromise or " Great Compromise ".

The question of what the world is has by no means been settled.

Whether Thackeray intended this shift in tone when he began writing, or whether it developed over the course of the work's composition, is a question that cannot be settled.

The Parliament of Scotland had not formally settled the succession question for the Scottish throne.

Although Franz Joseph ceded no territory to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Austrian defeat in the Austro-Prussian War, the Peace of Prague ( 23 August 1866 ) settled the German question in favor of Prussia, which prevented the unification of Germany under the House of Habsburg ( Großdeutsche Lösung ).

The question has never been settled and many people remain of the belief that Boris was murdered, in spite of no evidence being available.

In 1872, Muybridge settled Stanford's question with a single photographic negative showing his Standardbred trotting horse Occident airborne at the trot.

The Easter question was settled at various times in different places.

Spurred by a sudden influx of settlers crossing the Susquehanna and the licensing and formal beginning of the Wright's Ferry ferry services early in the year, acting on behalf of Maryland as a henchman of Lord Baltimore, Thomas Cresap starting in mid-1730, began confiscating the newly settled farms near Peach Bottom and Columbia, Pennsylvania ( thenunnamed, but soon would be called " Wright's Ferry "), for the question from Lord Baltimore, was who was to get the income from the lands.

" Once the question of the location of the county seat was settled, voters in Gilliam County proved reluctant to provide a courthouse in Condon.

The question of the first settlement of Grafton has never been settled.

Suppose that after a while the mathematician in question settled on the new conjecture " All shapes that are rectangles and have four sides of equal length are squares ".

Louis Pasteur's 1859 experiment is widely seen as having settled the question.