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 must deal with the question of how to manage a part when it cannot be handled without relation to the whole -- when the whole is too large to grasp.

However, there was no real question of the justice of creating a strong Poland, both industrially and agriculturally, and one unplagued by large minorities of Germans or Russians.

In the parapsychology foundation's long-range experiment, readings are made by a variety of sensitives for a large number of cooperating sitters, trying to throw light on this question of the significance of mediumistic statements.

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??

When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

This raises the question of why four space-time dimensions became large and the rest became unobservably small.

This latter question about the possibility of more undiscovered (" missing ") elements had been a standing problem among the chemists of the world, particularly given the existence of the large family of the lanthanide series of rare earth elements.

The question of the degrees of conquest and / or assimilation may not be answered with certainty, as both sides cite a large body of archaeological and other evidence.

The whole matter has assumed the portion of Dayton and her merchants endeavoring to secure a large amount of notoriety and publicity with an open question as whether Scopes is a party to the plot or not.

" A large group of artists, including Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin, and scholars signed a legal brief arguing the film's artistic merit ; the Court dismissed the case because the police violated the owners ' Fourth Amendment rights, without reaching the question of whether the film was obscene.

A close inspection of those paintings shows that the shuttles in question are too large to be tatting shuttles, and that they are actually knotting shuttles.

Although its legitimacy is often called into question, competitive marching band is sometimes considered a sport, due in large part to the physical exertion required in combination with teamwork.

In telecommunication and astronomy, forward scatter is the deflection — by diffraction, nonhomogeneous refraction, or nonspecular reflection by particulate matter of dimensions that are large with respect to the wavelength in question but small with respect to the beam diameter — of a portion of an incident electromagnetic wave, in such a manner that the energy so deflected propagates in a direction that is within 90 ° of the direction of propagation of the incident wave ( i. e., the phase angle is greater than 90 °).

Raeder testified in response to Maxwell Fyfe's question about his Heroes ' Day speech to his belief that starting in 1917 " International Jewry had destroyed the resistance of the German people ... and had gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs " and all of the anti-Semitic measures of the Nazi regime which presumably included genocide were merely just acts of German self-defence.

The duke in question was Henry I, Duke of Brabant, whose family had owned a large estate at nearby Orthen for at least four centuries.

This is typical in the theory of Noetherian rings ; often, to prove a result about Noetherian rings, one appeals to the fact that the rings in question are not " too large ".

The population in question can be as small as a handful of people, or as large as all the inhabitants of several continents ( for instance, in the case of a pandemic ).

Decisions must be unanimous: any divided decision sends the question back to the House at large.

If the given system is closed, then one can think of a mixed state as representing a single system with an uncertain preparation history, as explicitly detailed above ; or we can regard the mixed state as representing an ensemble of systems, i. e. a large number of copies of the system in question, where p < sub > j </ sub > is the proportion of the ensemble being in the state.

The population in question can be as small as a handful of people or as large as all the inhabitants of several continents ( for instance, in the case of a pandemic ).

Allied High Command requested the Free French force in question to be all-white, if possible, but this was very difficult because of the large numbers of black West Africans in their ranks.

I quite agree that the question what and how much good labor unions do is one on which intelligent people may differ -- I think that laboring men sometimes attribute to them advantages, as many attribute to combinations of capital disadvantages, that really are due to economic conditions of a far wider and deeper kind -- but I could not pronounce it unwarranted if Congress should decide that to foster a strong union was for the best interest not only of the men, but of the railroads and the country at large.

If the question of war were decided by the people at large, I would not be so passionately averse to that great calamity.

Because manufacturing and construction are typically very expensive processes ( involving large amounts of capital and payroll ), the question of liability for errors has great legal implications as each party tries to blame the other and assign the wasted cost to the other's responsibility.