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.

This involves measuring the angles of crystal faces relative to theoretical reference axes ( crystallographic axes ), and establishing the symmetry of the crystal in question.

In his Logical Investigations, Husserl mentions Frege only twice, once in a footnote to point out that he had retracted three pages of his criticism of Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic, and again to question Frege's use of the word Bedeutung to designate " reference " rather than " meaning " ( sense ).

Haeckel, who admired Darwin's work, defined ecology in reference to the economy of nature, which has led some to question whether ecology and the economy of nature are synonymous.

" Another joke puts a question concerning the definition of blunderbuss to " the four wise clerks of Oxenford " ( a reference to Chaucer's Clerk ; Tolkien had worked for Henry Bradley, one of the four main editors of the Oxford English Dictionary ):

Reportedly Chandler himself could not answer the question who killed the limousine driver in the story when the baffled screenwriters called him up for final reference.

However, a few scholars still question the authenticity of the reference, based on various arguments, but primarily based on the observation that various details in The Jewish War differ from it.

* The librarian is familiar with the contents of hundreds of reference books, and can recommend books that might contain the answer to a particular question.

Heidegger thus conducts his description of experience with reference to " Dasein ," the being for whom being is a question.

Note that with the exception of the Hot Seat format, all of the named format variants are not officially called so, and are only named after the significant change ( 12 question format for only having 12 questions in a game for example ) for reference and comparison reasons.

Traditionally, the question of why Moniz targeted the frontal lobes in particular has been answered by reference to a presentation by John Fulton and Carlyle Jacobsen at the Second International Congress of Neurology held in London in 1935.

Mr. Michael Stewart, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in a reply to a question in Parliament, 9 December 1969: " As I have explained before, there is reference, in the vital United Nations Security Council Resolution, both to withdrawal from territories and to secure and recognized boundaries.

One of the major topics with reference to Vanuatu and the Pacific region was the question of the suitability of underwater heritage for inscription on the World Heritage List.

D. McCarthy and D. Ó Cróinin propose that Gildas ' 44 years and one month is a reference to the 44th year of an 84-year Celtic Easter cycle used in Britain in Gildas ' day ; the cycle in question commenced in January, 438 AD, allowing them to date the battle to February, 482 AD.

However, in many cases, including the most recent same-sex marriage reference, the court has declined to answer a question from the Cabinet.

In common public usage, people sometimes use the word " integrity " in reference to a single " absolute " morality rather than in reference to the assumptions of the value system in question.

Such an allegation would be a question of law rather than a question of fact, and as such decided by the judge with no reference to the jurors.

In a letter sent to Maharajah Hari Singh on 27 October 1947, the then Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten accepted the accession with a remark, “ it is my Government's wish that as soon as law and order have been restored in Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invader the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the people .” Lord Mountbatten ’ s remark and the offer made by the Government of India to conduct a plebiscite or referendum to determine the future status of Kashmir led to a dispute between India and Pakistan regarding the legality of the accession of Kashmir to India.

** Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys contains a reference to the main characters, Grady Tripp and Terry Crabtree, " speculating for hours on the meaning of a certain enigmatic question in the lyrics to ' Any Major Dude.

The title, Elbow Room, is a reference to the question: are we deterministic machines with no real freedom of action or do we in fact have some elbow room, some real choice in our behavior?

The great monument of his episcopate is the eleven famous charges in which he from time to time reviewed the position of the English Church with reference to whatever might be the most pressing question of the day — addresses at once judicial and statesmanlike, full of charitable wisdom and massive sense.

The one, his Trattato della moneta, a disquisition on coinage in which he shows himself a strong supporter of mercantilism, deals with many aspects of the question of exchange, but always with a special reference to the state of confusion then presented by the whole monetary system of the Neapolitan government.

Ofili's paintings also make reference to blaxploitation films and gangsta rap, seeking to question racial and sexual stereotypes in a humorous way.

It is said that George Washington often uttered the words: " We must consult Brother Jonathan " when faced with a difficult question ; however, that origin is doubtful, as neither man made reference to the story during their lifetimes and the first appearance of the story has been traced to the mid-19th century, long after their deaths.