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.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

Why look now, the cause too of the obscurity hath produced us again another question: namely, why did they then happen, and now do so no more?

One reason to be interested in such a question is that many graph properties are hereditary for subgraphs, which means that a graph has the property if and only if all subgraphs have it too.

Indeed it was argued that, if the nature of reality itself was in question, and if previous restrictions which had been in place around human activity were dissolving, then art, too, would have to radically change.

As a number of local residents chose afterwards not to rebuild, New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff speculated that Niue's status as a self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand might come into question if too many residents departed the island to maintain basic services.

King concludes that he has yet to find an answer to the " talent versus luck " question, as he felt that he was outed as Bachman too early to know.

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.

As for the probability — to be sure that might admit some question — but I told her that in my judgment the poem had moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii's son.

He becomes an extremely well behaved ACCURSED WANDERER, then dies, and in POST-HUMOUS FANTASY sequences-though he is too wise really to question the fact of death, and too calmly confident to have doubts about his continuing upward mobility-he learns greater wisdom.

To those who see the tradition as constantly evolving and supplying answers to question that it itself has raised, the argument that there would be no reason to develop and transmit material which seems derogatory of the Prophet or of Islam is too simple.

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 ".

He concluded by silencing critics who thought baseball had come back too soon: " I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here?

If this is already too much to handle, we might keep only the age of the youngest, m and oldest person, M. If the question is about an age strictly lower than m or strictly higher than M, then we may safely respond that no such participant was present.

" Khrushchev also thought that the Chinese were too soft on the Dalai Lama ( Tibet's spiritual leader ) and failed to support them in a border dispute with India, saying that the territory in question was " just a frozen waste where nobody lives.

However, in one Carl Barks story, it took the ducklings so long to look up a lifesaving question, it was almost too late.

Presumably, the state's failure to offer instruction in the language of the county's titular ethnic group was due to the ethnic group in question being too small and / or remote to possess qualified teachers or instruction materials in their language.

DeForest was also noted for his remote interviews in which he would ask the interviewee a question, but pitch the microphone to the interviewee too quickly, resulting in a fade out of the last part of the question.

Despite the fact they had been friends since their first day at Unseen University, Ridcully cannot decide what to call the Dean and eventually remembers his name is Henry ( over ' Archchancellor ', because that ' was out of the question ', ' Dean ' was ' too obvious an insult ', ' Two Chairs ' was ' ditto with knobs on ' and ' ungrateful, backstabbing, slimy bastard ' took too long to say.

Later that summer a shocking accusation is made: the Educational Testing Service calls into question the validity of their scores when it is discovered that similarities between errors are too high for pure chance, and the students are left to deal with the allegations ( along with the subsequent revoking of their scores ) in their own way.

In his review for Time, Richard Corliss praised William Hurt's performance: " Hurt is neat too, never standing safely outside his character, always allowing Tom to find the humor in his too-rapid success, locating a dimness behind his eyes when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones ".

He used this ability to question a variety of people in Russia on a wide range of topics.

Ultimately, the reasons a person consults a diviner or fortune teller are mediated by cultural expectations and by personal desires, and until a statistically rigorous study of the phenomenon have been conducted, the question of why people consult fortune-tellers is wide open for opinion-making.

While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era.

Criticism of horse racing and its practices runs a wide gamut, however ; while some may consider even fairly drastic discipline of horses non-abusive, others may consider abuse to be anything done against the will of the animal in question.

Roman magistrates had wide discretion in executing their tasks, and some readers question whether Pilate would have been so captive to the demands of the crowd.

Blair ascribed a wide range of facts to a man featured in the article, almost all of which the man in question denied.

He is not especially talented in fisticuffs ( although his endurance has grown from having to engage in them over the years ), but sometimes employs weaponry that exploits his gimmick, such as exploding jigsaw pieces, his infamous question mark cane, known to house a wide variety of technological devices and weapons, and question mark shaped pistols.

QA research attempts to deal with a wide range of question types including: fact, list, definition, How, Why, hypothetical, semantically constrained, and cross-lingual questions.

In addition to pursuing a wide variety of local issues, I have attempted to question, probe and scrutinise the Government in the House of Commons on important national and international topics which concern people.

However, research into effective defences against Sybil attacks is generally considered an open question, and wide variety of potential defences are proposed every year in top security research conferences.

Questions in each round covered a wide range of topics and were assembled in such a way that choosing an incorrect number for a question could yield humorous results, which was the main appeal of this otherwise simple game.

Working in a wide range of media, Xu creates installations that question the idea of communicating meaning through language, demonstrating how both meanings and written words can be easily manipulated.

In the resulting conflicts, in which his personal interest was in question, he displayed great activity and a wide knowledge of Canon law, but did not scruple to resort to disingenuous interpretation of texts.

" Chinese rock and roll music "), occasionally referred as Mandorock or Cantorock depending on the language of the song in question, is commonly used to describe a wide variety of forms of rock and roll music, in connection with the rock bands and solo artists from native Chinese-speaking regions ( including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, etc .).

There may be a few problems with these clubs, Some members may regard them as opportunities to meet people for social contact and general conversation, partially veering off onto a wide variety of non-literary topics, while others wish to engage in serious literary analysis focused on the book in question and related works, with little non-literary interaction.

: The proper question to have asked was whether a pedal designer of ordinary skill, facing the wide range of needs created by developments in the field of endeavor, would have seen a benefit to upgrading Asano with a sensor.

" According to Mâche, " If it turns out that music is a wide spread phenomenon in several living species apart from man, this will very much call into question the definition of music, and more widely that of man and his culture, as well as the idea we have of the animal itself.

He is also remembered for his dissenting judgment in Liversidge v. Anderson, in which he unsuccessfully asserted the courts ' right to question the wide discretionary powers of the World War II security services to detain aliens.

Because perchlorate would have broken down any Martian organics, the question of whether or not Viking found organic compounds is still wide open.

The West Lothian question which was posed by the Scottish MP Tam Dalyell in the 1970s is wide open:

Because of the rules of the game, it frequently matters whether a player of the offense is on the line of scrimmage or in the backfield, and in those cases the descriptor " wide receiver " is insufficient and " end in motion " ( except in Canadian football, where they're allowed to be shuffling sideways along the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped ) is nonsense, although it may reflect the way the player in question is listed on the roster.

Three other judges ( Mason, Murphy, Brennan ) took a wide view, saying that the mere existence of a treaty obligation was sufficient to render the matter an ' external affair ', regardless of the particular subject in question.

With humor and good-hearted-ness, hope and fear, Talking Heads contemplate a world on the eve of destruction on this important record — and leave wide open the question of what the dawn will bring.