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Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.
It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.
For a dawning sense of illumination occurs in consequence of two events which, as so often in Malraux, suddenly confront a character with the existential question of the nature and value of human life.
I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??
Petitioner was not denied due process in the administrative proceedings, because the statement in question was in his file, to which he had access, and he had opportunities to rebut it both before the hearing officer of the Department of Justice and before the appeal board.
For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.
Chewing it over with his colleagues and in his own mind, he reaches a tentative identification of the question -- tentative because it may change as he explores it further and because, if no tolerable answer can be found, it may have to be changed into one which can be answered.
But in such an important question, we would be satisfied if the judgment were that the principal objection to the identity of forces which produce electricity and magnetism were only a difficulty, and not a thing which is contrary to it.
When a question contains two verbs, the response does not make clear which of them is being answered.
Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
this is a question which I have no wish to take up -- condensation is a phenomenon in which one finds not a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas which are, at an unconscious level, well sorted out, but rather a condensed expression of feelings and ideas which, even in the unconscious, have yet to become well differentiated from one another.
It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??
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.
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.
Apart, however, from the question of wasteful duplication, there is another aspect of the `` family business '' spirit in American Catholic higher education which deserves closer scrutiny.
and one U.S. official said: `` The key question now is which side picks up the phone first ''.
To do this, it is sufficient to point out that if the principle in terms of which alternatives are to be conceived is such as to exclude more than two, then the question of a `` third '' possibility is a meaningless question.
This would be by far the better choice, when `` it is a question of allowing the human race to survive, possibly under the domination of a regime which most of us detest, or of allowing it to destroy itself in appalling and prolonged anguish ''.
One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status.
In that sense it represents the feudal liege homage, which could be due only to one lord, while simple homage might be due to every lord under whom the person in question held land.

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The genuinely interesting question, then, becomes: What factors determine the degree of realism or distortion in conventional images of Jews??
And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.
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.
then we shall perhaps be in a position to provide something like a complete answer to the question at hand.
Perhaps the very important question -- What is, then, exactly the role of kinesthetic sensations in the patient's ability to recognize forms and shapes by means of the tracing movements when he is actually looking at things??
I shall first indicate a couple of weaknesses in Fromm's analysis, then argue that, granted these weaknesses, he still has much left that is valuable, and, finally, raise the general question of a philosophical versus a sociological approach to the question of alienation.
The question, then, is whether sufficient discrimination in the use of even non-violent means of coercion is to be found in the fact that such conduct demoralizes and overcomes the opponent while re-moralizing and re-establishing him.
Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
This raised the question of what would happen if he were to produce first a daughter and then a son.
When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.
But I am not at all sure of this ; back then, in those long-gone years, the question didn ’ t even arise.
The elderly woman then asks Fredrika a surprising question: " What is it all for?
The Apostles ' Creed is then recited by candidates, sponsors and congregation, each section of the Creed being an answer to the celebrant's question, ' Do you believe in God the Father ( God the Son, God the Holy Spirit )?
Augustine responds that if one is to question one miracle, then one should question all miracles as well ( section 31 ).
This then raises the question of why the battle occurred when it did.
If the second theory is correct, this raises the further question of why the Persians, having hesitated for several days, then attacked.
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?
The cardinal in question then ranks in precedence with those raised to the cardinalate at the time of his in pectore appointment.
* Gothic: Sentence clitics appear in second position in accordance with Wackernagel's Law, including-u ( yes-no question ),-uh " and ", þan " then ", ƕa " anything ", for example ab-u þus silbin " of thyself ?".
The question then arises: if corporations are to be inspected with care, what-if not the commercial or social conduct, or the by-laws-is to be inspected – and by whom?

question and arises
When some question arises in the medical field concerning cancer, for instance, we do not turn to free and open discussion as in a political campaign.
Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight??
But with the months moving on -- and the immediate confrontations with the Communists showing no gain for the free world -- the question arises:
Rendering aion to indicate eternality in this verse would result in the contradictory phrase “ end of eternity ”, so the question arises whether it should ever be so.
This aberration is quite distinct from that of the sharpness of reproduction ; in unsharp, reproduction, the question of distortion arises if only parts of the object can be recognized in the figure.
The question of justification arises only at the second level, when one
And the question arises, to what extent can you even begin to predict the political positions of somebody who ’ s been dead three decades and more by that time?
The question then arises as to what sort of change happens after a thing is destroyed?
The question then arises: Is the ship in the harbor, now called S2, the same ship as the ship that was in the harbor, fifty years ago ( called S1, for convenience )?
But the report expressed concerns that the Roman Catholic dogmatic definitions of these concepts implies them to be " revealed by God ", stating: " The question arises for Anglicans, however, as to whether these doctrines concerning Mary are revealed by God in a way which must be held by believers as a matter of faith.
Hence the question arises: what are the simple Lie algebras of compact groups?
As academic language and learning ( ALL ) educators often work with students on improving their approaches to learning, the question then arises: can the results of neuro-scientific studies of brains as they are learning usefully inform practice in this area?
One question that arises here is how to determine a money value for each alternative to facilitate comparison and assess opportunity cost, which may be more or less difficult depending on the things we are trying to compare.
A question arises of whether this makes cell phones a mass medium or simply a device used to access a mass medium ( the internet ).
The question then arises: what role does reason play in motivating moral behaviour?
A question arises: an omniscient entity knows everything even about his / her / its own decisions in the future, does it therefore forbid any free will to that entity?
Unitarians fall outside of Trinitarian Christianity, and the question arises as to the degree to which the presidents themselves held Christian precepts.
Because traits held to be due to sexual selection often conflict with the survival fitness of the individual, the question then arises as to why, in nature, in which survival of the fittest is considered the rule of thumb, such apparent liabilities are allowed to persist.
The question then arises as to when, if at all, it might legitimate to break the law.
Adams concludes that “ right action, by act-utilitarian standards, and right motivation, by motive-utilitarian standards, are incompatible in some cases .” The necessity of this conclusion is rejected by Fred Feldman who argues that “ the conflict in question results from an inadequate formulation of the utilitarian doctrines ; motives play no essential role in it …( and that )… Precisely the same sort of conflict arises even when MU is left out of consideration and AU is applied by itself .” Instead, Feldman proposes a variant of act utilitarianism that results in there being no conflict between it and motive utilitarianism.
Regularly, the question arises of how one should use one's voice to minimise tiring in the vocal organs.
Since the areas for science to investigate are theoretically infinite, the issue then arises as to what science should attempt to question or find out.
The question of direct or " naïve " realism, as opposed to indirect or " representational " realism, arises in the philosophy of perception and of mind out of the debate over the nature of conscious experience ; the epistemological question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself or merely an internal perceptual copy of that world generated by neural processes in our brain.

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