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question and whether
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
Even if men eventually find themselves able to look through walls and around corners, one may question whether this will help them to live better lives.
But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.
The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.
It is another question whether `` they '' -- or a single general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few ( galvanizing??
There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.
The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.
so that the rest of the house stayed open, though there was a question as to whether it was hotter or cooler that way.
In reply to a question of whether they now tax boats, airplanes and other movable property excluding automobiles, nineteen said that they did and twenty that they did not.
Of greater interest is a question as to whether movable property was assessed according to its location or ownership.
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.
Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.
This phenomenon raises the question whether the guidance of the emotions for therapeutic ends may not have an even wider application in the area of the neuroses.
The question may be raised whether or not we are dealing with a common factor in anxiety and compulsivity.
A related question is whether unemployed workers can be motivated to take the training provided.
There is also the question of whether the respondent based his answers on factual information and carefully considered judgment, or whether his answers were casual guesses.
Finally, there is the question of how strongly an expressed opinion is held -- whether it is a firm opinion or one that the respondent favors only slightly over the alternatives.
The next question is whether board members favor their own social classes in their roles as educational policy-makers.
If there were more such cases, it would be easier to answer the question whether the policy-makers favor their own social classes.
One such disagreement, which will receive attention in this next chapter, concerns the question whether rates for different kinds of service, in order to avoid the attribute of discrimination, must be made directly proportional to marginal costs, or whether they should be based instead on differences in marginal costs.
Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

question and Caligula
While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).
On stylistic evidence, there has always been some question whether these two flanking poems in Cotton Caligula A. ii might be attributed to Thomas Chester as well, with arguments on both sides.

question and was
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.

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